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Alan Rockefeller said: Hopefully you did not check the tracking from your own internet connection.
Thankfully, no. And John, USPS is usually good with express tracking. Priority "tracking" isn't really tracking at all though.
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johnm214



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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: Anonymous #1]
#13172001 - 09/09/10 07:01 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Right, but that's not what I'm referring to. UPS puts data on the tracking readout that is made up- just gueses of wear the package should be, not reflecting where it actually is or was
USPS probably does so as well, the scanning and tracking of UPS packages and USPS Express domestic is largely identical, functionally, and so it wouldn't surprise me if they made up data as well
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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: johnm214]
#13172067 - 09/09/10 07:18 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well that's something I wasn't aware of. When I see a package pass through multiple sort facilities at different times, I always assumed it was physically at the facility being processed.
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Doc_T
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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: johnm214]
#13172076 - 09/09/10 07:21 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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johnm214 said: UPS puts data on the tracking readout that is made up- just gueses of wear the package should be, not reflecting where it actually is or was
No, no, no.
UPS scans that barcode every time they touch the box, it's fundamental to their business model. They might post fake data in a sting, but they won't post faulty data.
(USPS does not do this, they use optical scanning.)
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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: Doc_T]
#13172091 - 09/09/10 07:25 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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johnm214 said: UPS puts data on the tracking readout that is made up- just gueses of wear the package should be, not reflecting where it actually is or was
No, no, no.
UPS scans that barcode every time they touch the box, it's fundamental to their business model. They might post fake data in a sting, but they won't post faulty data.
(USPS does not do this, they use optical scanning.)
Them scanning the box when they touch it doesn't make what I said wrong. They obviously don't want to touch the box more than neccesary, and they don't want calls from crazy people bitching about their package being lost because it didn't get scanned yeasterday.
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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: johnm214]
#13172120 - 09/09/10 07:32 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Again, they won't make things up. They'll tell you that's all they have if they don't know. UPS knows where the package is because they scan it, it's fundamental to their work. It's like McD's turning on the fryers.
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Re: Domestic USPS express pack seized? [Re: Doc_T]
#13175649 - 09/10/10 02:53 PM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Them knowing where the package is, which they don't anyways- only knowing where it last was and was supposed to go or was likely placed, has nothing to do with whether the information they display is speculative or not.
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The package was sorted at the local hub, got a departure scan, and was put on a plane heading west. My package arrived in Pittsburgh at 9:45 p.m. EDT. Then it was on to the Grand Lake, Ky., hub, where it left at 12:00 a.m. EDT for Oakland, Calif., arriving at 3:35 a.m. PDT... Only now, the package has disappeared.
So what happened to all those scans?...
But it also turns out there are physical scans and what a UPS supervisor called a "logical scan." Once a package is picked up and physically scanned, it is not scanned again until it arrives at its next destination. UPS simply assumes that the package is on the truck on which it is supposed be between the two scans. Now there's a piece of logic that might have a lesson wrapped around it
http://www.infoworld.com/t/networking/chasing-lost-package-153
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