Have you checked with the recipient?
Chances are very good it’s where you sent it. But no one signed for it.
The exact same thing happened to me as well. I had some documents I had to sign and send in regarding my retirement account. They suggested I send them via USPS with a tracking number. When you’d track it, it would show that it was at the local USPS facility... and then... nothing.
The post office was no help at all. I submitted a claim online and I received 2 emails that they didn’t know where it was.
Two weeks later it showed up at the accountant’s office, but tracking still showed it at the local facility. I received an update from USPS that they were still looking for it, but I didn’t tell them it had arrived.
I let them keep looking.
I think the usps tracking is BS. They are pretty good at quick deliveries lately. But I would have used ups or FedEx for the urgent important documents.
Don’t even get me started on the USPS.
I am headed there now to get a package that they signed for at 11:AM yesterday and didn’t have “processed” by 4:15 PM. Amazon did their part by getting it to them in two days, as promised, but the Post Office just said “sorry, can’t give it to you today.”
Oh, and I ordered something else and got very good service with Priority mail, equal to what I would expect from UPS or FedEx.
I’ve seen UPS and FedEx lose stuff too. Businesses are run by humans, humans make mistakes.
We had a package sent from an attorney “disappear” for 18 days, last known location a sorting/distribution center. We assumed it was lost forever, but it reappeared after the attorney had called, asking why the paperwork hadn’t been signed/returned & they had to resend it. I don’t think they believed we had not gotten it, but I pulled a tracking history off the computer & showed it to them - they were very disturbed this happened. BTW, the resent papers arrived in 1 day since the office and our house are just across town.
About a dozen years ago, an Express Mail envelope I sent disappeared somewhere in the USPS system. Even Fed-X is subject to losses, as when a Fed-X cargo plane crashed and burned on landing at the Tallahassee airport. In addition to the loss of the lives of the two pilots, candidate qualifying papers were destroyed and the qualifying period had to be reopened for those affected.