Posted on 02/22/2015 11:51:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Long story made short. I mailed my taxes in via USPS Certified Mail last Saturday and when I go to USPS for Tracking it says: "Updated Delivery Day: Thursday, February 19, 2015" with the last status being "Sorting Complete". Obviously that day is past so I am starting to wonder.....were my taxes taken by a postal employee? And it never said "Out For Delivery".....the Sorting Complete message has remained.
Checked the weather in Kansas City, MO and it does not look like snow.
Anyone ever experience this? I have sent a lot of things Certified Mail and this is the first time this has happened.
Takes a while. Did you use “return Receipt Requested?”
I don’t believe so.....will need to check the receipt.
I wouldn't worry about it until at least a couple of days.
I had the same problem— it just takes more time. I sent a request to investigate and they said when items going to state offices, etc, they put them into a “basket”, evidently will be delivered when many more go into the basket and make a large delivery.
I filed my taxes electronically and got my refund in seven days. It might be the best way to go from now on.
The USPS tracking system is the world’s worst. Make Obama care look good. Usually my experience is like this ——
accepted at Post Office -—— Delivered (If your lucky).
UPS is well run. (The reason is “It’s a private company”.)
It is obvious that you need to talk to your station manager if you think it is lost. If he/she won’t follow-up or gives excuses, then you should file a complaint with the postal inspector. You can find the link at the usps website.
It could be worse in that it could have been listed as delivered and it wasn’t.
I once received a package and just for fun, I looked at the tracking information. 2 days after delivery, it still said OUT FOR DELIVERY.
Could it also be that your mail has been intercepted by some government agency? I know this was being done during the anthrax scare a while back.
I’ve given up on the post office. I mailed a letter, two-day priority. It was delivered 7 days later. LOL
“UPS is well run. (The reason is “It’s a private company”.)”
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But it still makes mistakes because their employees are human.
It happened to me.
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The Postal Service has lost quite a few of my sent checks in the mail over the past few years, damaged one incoming package, will return packages if not picked up quickly (in about 6 days instead of 30 days, mostly older women in postal work here) and doesn’t deliver to homes here (pickup at PO many miles away only). FedEx doesn’t deliver during winter and did break a packaged vehicle part.
UPS is the only dependable delivery service here (remote area)—100% dependable so far.
I ship a little over 3,000 packages a month. What you describe is normal. You may automatically have insurance on the package, if so, put in a claim. They’ll suddenly find that they delivered it. If you don’t, you just have to hope that the IRS actually received it.
The USPS tracking system is a joke. Just like everything else the govt. does turns to sh!t.
Nothing shows up on the Where’s My Refund? site, but then again it takes awhile before it is entered into the system. That I know from experience.
That's as may be but a package they shipped from Ohio passed within three miles of my address enroute to Philadelphia only to transfer it to the Postal Service for final delivery - another seventy miles back.
Whuuut?
Electronic refunds are typically a week, paper filing generally takes two weeks to show up in the ‘where’s my refund’ system, and then another week for the refund.
About 3 weeks ago, I placed an Amazon order that was coming from 3 different locations — 2 in NY state and Amazon.
First package arrived a couple of days later.
Second and third packages took nearly a week to show up in ‘tracking’ information and another 2 weeks for delivery. They blamed the weather. One package spent most of the week in Mesquite, TX.
Up until the final delivery, they both showed ‘sorting’.
The weather probably has a great deal to do with the slow response. Give it another few days. Remember, too, that last Monday was a FED holiday.
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