Originally Posted by
tiger1964
. . . . Shipped ASAP. This AM, already in transit from Baltimore MD which is 30 miles away, so I figure I'll have it in a day or two. I check again, and nine hours later it's in Davenport, FL... 900 miles away!
USPS in the Baltimore/DC area is legendarily bad.
When I lived in that area, I once had time-sensitive paperwork mailed using trackable Priority Mail bounce back-and-forth
3 or 4 times between Baltimore and DC before it finally got sent to the correct location - which was in Indiana. As I recall it took nearly 2 weeks for it to be delivered.
And it wasn't a labeling problem. I used one of their Flat Rate envelopes, with all addressing info clearly printed in the correct locations on the places indicated on said envelope.
My guess is that in your case one of the "stellar" USPS employees in Baltimore (who has enough seniority to be essentially guaranteed a job for life) threw the package into the wrong bin, thus putting it on the wrong truck.