A package\u2019s progress from NJ to IL:<\/p>\r\n
Feb 8, 7 pm: Accepted by USPS in Collingswood, NJ, ~800 miles from destination.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 8, 8 pm (~1 hour after previous location): Arrived in South Jersey distribution center, NJ, ~800 miles from destination.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 9, 7 am (~11 hours later): Departed South Jersey distribution center.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 10, 6 am (~23 hours later): Arrived in Aurora, IL, ~35 miles from destination.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 10, 7 am (~1 hour later): Departed Aurora, IL.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 10, 7:30 am (~1\/2 hour later): Arrived in Carol Stream, IL, ~25 miles from destination. Yay! Progress! Almost here!<\/p>\r\n
Feb 10, 11 pm (~15 hours later): Arrived in \u2026 Greensboro, NC. Which is ~750 miles from destination. Um.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 12, 2 am (~27 hours later): Departed Greensboro, NC.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 12, 6 pm (~16 hours later): Arrived in Chicago, IL, ~10 miles from destination.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 12, 10 pm (~4 hours later): Departed Chicago, IL.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 13, 10 pm (~24 hours later): Arrived in Carol Stream, IL, ~25 miles from destination. Yes, three and a half days later, the package has at last returned to its ancestral home of Carol Stream, after an epic journey of 1,500 miles to North Carolina and back.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 14, 6 am (~8 hours later): Departed Carol Stream, IL.<\/p>\r\n
Feb 14, 10 am (~4 hours later): Arrived Oak Park, IL. In the same city as destination!<\/p>\r\n
\u2026But Feb 14 is a Sunday, and Feb 15 is a postal holiday, so the package presumably won\u2019t be delivered until Tuesday the 16th.<\/p>\r\n
\u2026This is not a big deal. USPS has been very good to me in general, despite the pandemic and election-related mail and budget issues and snow and rain and heat and gloom of night etc. So I can\u2019t really complain if one of my packages felt like taking the scenic route.<\/p>\r\n
But I was amused enough to feel that it was worth writing up and posting.<\/p>\r\n
And I hope that the package enjoyed the trip, as well as the day-plus that it spent sitting in Greensboro before it was sent back. (Maybe it went out sightseeing!)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-service-demon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18983,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions\/18983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}