I *HATE* it when my parts go wandering off on their own.
Yes..
And it seems that is the present state of affairs.
USPS is still insisting that the parcel will arrive today but since the Mail-lady (as opposed to a Male-lady which is another thing entirely) has already visited the receptacle at the end of the driveway I know that will not occur.
For the record, the drive time between Kearny, NJ and this obscure location is in the order of 90 minutes. The Postal Service peoples in Kearny (NJ - west of the Hudson River), for reasons unfathomable, tend to truck things destined for here to the opposite side of the Hudson (White Plains - east of the Hudson River). Experience teaches that when things appear in White Plains, the Postal Service trained monkeys there just toss it on another truck without attention to the final destination.
We have had stuff get to White Plains and then show up next in Boston. Or Nyack. Or Albany. At those facilities, when eventually the error is discovered, the parcel ends up in a pile for manual sorting which happens when they get - yep - a round tuit. Since White Plains routed it to the wrong place, the manual sorter-person (with the round tuit safely in hisherits pocket) at the recipient-in-error Postal Facility returns it to - yep - White Plains.
Where they get a second chance...
That said, if Kearny sent it to White Plains, travel time would still be around two hours, so one would think that the parcel should have been scanned at White Plains by now since it left Kearny over 12 hours ago.
And in the meantime the advanced grass substitute is now waving and saying “Hi!” when I walk past... ;-)