How is this even possible.

moonhat thought this was worth mentioning said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 8:34pm ET

I’m excited that my Mediocritee is on its way! But I see this shipping status that makes no sense. It’s 5:26pm PST today when I’m reading this, and this is saying that it was picked up and processed in Everett at 11:15pm EST today, which is… 8:15pm PST.
I admit I’m pretty bad at math but, hello?
Someone tell me what I’m missing here.

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moonhat said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 8:35pm ET:

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Ignorant said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 8:42pm ET:

The simulation is glitching.

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- @Ignorant @moonhat I had the same thing. Yesterday mine allegedly went 450 or so miles (TX to my town) in an hour and 3 minutes or something close to that. Then today showed up in IN. Nope don’t think so without time travel or star trek transporter.
  
  Kidsandliz said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 8:50pm ET
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PocketBrain said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 10:34pm ET:

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Raider said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 10:39pm ET:

“Picked up and Processed by Agent” is literally a nothing update that is false language by PB. That line is created when PB notifies USPS that a package will eventually come their way for delivery. The USPS tracking will list “Arrived Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item” at the same time.

The package is still somewhere in PB’s control awaiting for it to advance from the hub its stuck in. They seem to use a first in, last out inventory so if it doesn’t fly though a hub it languishes for awhile.

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- @Raider If you use the tracker on the Pitney Bowes site it uses the language “pre-shipment info sent to USPS, USPS awaiting item” so I don’t know why it’s showing picked up and processed on Meh’s site.
  
  sammydog01 said Wed, Jul 15th 2020 at 11:50pm ET
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- @Raider kind of marinating, then?
  
  moonhat said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 9:10am ET
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unksol said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 1:31am ET:

Can we not finally move past this? PB is a cluster fuck. It will probably show up eventually. Meh and PB face delays.

What do we want an auto refund if PB doesn’t deliver in 6 weeks?

PB tracker is horse shit. Meh always shipped slow via USPS. Trump is deliberately fucking with the postal service. It’s meh. As long as it gets there go you really care?

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- @unksol
  /giphy whoa, easy!
  
  moonhat said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 7:24am ET
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- @unksol ok settle down there. I’m not complaining about PB, I just found that tracking info interesting. It looks like either way I get it today or tomorrow and I’ve never once complained about the wait. Do not assume I’m some whiny whinerson, sheesh! I was just pointing out something that looked crazy, that’s it! Stop yelling at me! Waaah!
  
  moonhat said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 7:29am ET
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- @moonhat lol not directed at you personally. Sorry. more the whole constant piling on… And it seems like we’ve seen hundreds of these. PB creative fails in the same way. It gets… Repetitive. But as long as you’re not opening A dozen tickets for support…
  
  unksol said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 8:16pm ET
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chienfou said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 10:05am ET:

Yeah, evidently they don’t own a map… or GPS software!
My Pasta Drop made several virtually instantaneous trips back and forth across the country on it’s way to Boston.

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chienfou said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 10:06am ET:

On another note… WTF is the deal with the header background image??
How do these get picked??

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shawn said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 10:54am ET:
This is certainly odd @moonhat.

I’ve checked the data from responses given by Pitney Bowes API and the last scan indeed says “Picked up and Processed by Agent”.
```
{
    eventDate: '2020-07-15',
    eventTime: '20:15:00',
    eventCity: 'EVERETT',
    eventStateOrProvince: 'WA',
    postalCode: '98201',
    country: null,
    scanType: 'PTSMA',
    scanDescription: 'Picked up and Processed by Agent',
    packageStatus: 'InTransit'
}
```
But like @sammydog01 mentioned the Pitney Bowes tracking page (https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/4209820392748927005269000064509767) shows a different status of “Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item” which seems more accurate.

We can only pass along the data we receive from the Pitney Bowes API so I’ve asked our friends over there to help us investigate.
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- @shawn You will have a bunch to investigate as a bunch of people have posted about tracking that has similar “interesting” and using current physics, “impossible” routes.
  
  I did notice on an irk of mine, after it finally arrived at USPS, they “cleaned up” the tracking and got rid of all the side trips, literal round trips, and other nonsensical tracking info. They had even had listed it as delivered and accepted by my actual zip code post office. Two problems. My zip code doesn’t have a post office, our junk is sent to a different zip code post office so not sure what was going on with that. And since at that time USPS was refusing to deliver at our apt building we were having to go to that post office to get our mail. So I asked and showed them the tracking. Nothing was checked in there, and they hadn’t seen it (small post office so they actually went and looked). They also looked in some detailed USPS tracking system that the general public doesn’t have access to and couldn’t find it that way either.
  
  After listing it as accepted by that post office, the next entry was it being sent elsewhere in the state. Then sent somewhere else in the state (not my city either). Then while still listed “in transit” it was actually delivered to me. When I went back to tracking almost all of that “interesting” route stuff had vanished and it showed a direct TX to IN to my city to me route. I am not sure they could have found where that package was even if they wanted to.
  
  Might be useful to find out what the underlying explanations are for tracking that looks like that (see the PB nascar thread for more like these and other threads) since there are a number of us with tracking equally as bizarre. And then why, after the fact (although sometimes during) the routing information gets changed or erased. Of course with that kind of “interesting” tracking they may not want to admit to what is going on either because whatever it is it going on it will not reflect well on that company.
  
  Kidsandliz said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 11:10am ET
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- @shawn You have friends at Pitney Bowes? I feel bad for them. They probably started day drinking in March.
  
  sammydog01 said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 11:18am ET
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- @shawn missed the edit window
  
  Then while still listed “in transit” it was actually delivered to me.
  
  meant to say in transit to a city a couple of hours away from me it was actually delivered to me.
  
  Kidsandliz said Thu, Jul 16th 2020 at 11:18am ET
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