Missing, then found rifle, USPS coincidence?

[kimberkid]

So, back in MAR I sent a barreled action off to have rebarreled at PacNor and was told they were running 16-20wks out. At the same time I ordered a new Manners stock, which arrived in OCT. The "intent" was to have it ready, load developed, for our rifle season, which ends tomorrow. I ended up shooting a buck with one of my .270s, so still a happy dear season ending.

The rifle was shipped from the company doing the Cerakote work for PacNor on 30NOV with a 3Day priority delivery with arrival on SAT 4DEC. Tracking shows it left OR on 30 Nov and promptly....disappeared. It never made another stop. Contacted the shipper on Monday and was told it was shipped priority and insured for $1200, which almost covered the work I had done, minus the cost of the base rifle action, not to mention 10 months of waiting. Since Rem M7 actions aren't exactly growing on trees these days, I became "slightly concerned".

So I waited the normal amount of time, then contacted my extremely helpful local PO yesterday. Very nice lady, (benefit of being in a small town) said she'd contact OR, since it looks like it never really left there. Apparently the packages get grouped together at an origin point and containerized. She checked the system and every other package in that group container had been delivered. At this point I'm a little "more than slightly concerned". I'm imagining my rifle in a ravine somewhere as an overwhelmed USPS employee dumped it with hundreds of others..

She advised starting a missing package search as it would go into detail as to the package contents. Once it was known that a firearm was missing, wheels would begin to turn. I guess the wheels turned pretty quickly or it's a big coincidence as I received 2 TXT messages last night:

1. Acknowledging the missing package search
2. The package has arrived in KC, MO and will be delivered today!

My guess is based on normal USPS package flow for our area, it got hung up in the KC KS regional center, the place that packages go to die. Tracking shows out for delivery now. If everything's OK, it will go to my smith on Monday for bedding. With any luck it will make the 2022 dear season.

I ordered a old fashion windshield visor for my 62 VW Beetle back on November 20th. Shipped by USPS, it bounced around Texas until December 1 when it finally made it to Kansas City Mo. then it started bouncing back & forth between the KCMO Sorting center & the Distribution center.
I’ve gone to the Post Office twice now but I still don’t have my $300 visor!

 

[crestoncowboy]

I order a ton of parts and supplies for my shop. I'll pay triple to have something come UPS rather than USPS. I have many many stories just like yours. Packages lost for weeks until I complained. Then most are "found". Not all though. Some are never found. I have a NOS Ford f350 spring hanger somewhere that made it to the main post office but then said delivered 7 minutes after arrival at that post office at 9 AM. (on my back porch which I didn't have at the time. I only had my front deck done...) It should have gone to my local post office and then took several hours to get to my home. That same day I had got a package from my mail man who I know well at 11 AM. Lol