topic Re: USPS tracking info changed in Buying

USPS tracking info changed

hus2385 — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:09:10 GMT

Hey, everyone 🙂

Been a bit of a while in between US purchases (ok I assume they are US-based lol) and there are not only new tracking prefixes (UJ/UM instead of LK/LJ etc) but an apparent 3rd-party is now involved. I am getting tracking info stating this "Departed Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item" and in one instance, this status hasn't moved for 1 1/2 weeks.

Anyone else experienced this? Am guessing its just a way of cost-cutting for USPS, no matter how much slower it is

Plus "First class International" seems to have morphed into "International letter", unless I'm missing something.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

letscleanupmycupboards — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:51:26 GMT

It's not the GSP is it?

Re: USPS tracking info changed

hus2385 — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 01:03:48 GMT

Nope, definitely not!

I only had to endure that hell once to learn my lesson lol

Listing says this, as usual

"USPS First Class Mail International / First Class Package International Service"

Re: USPS tracking info changed

hus2385 — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:14:17 GMT

Welp, it's rolled around to 2 weeks in limbo for one item, not quite one week for another...still marked as "Departed Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item"

I would really love to know what the hell this means lol...still there's another 2 weeks roughly before the last day of expected delivery so hopefully there will be some movement by then. However if it isn't even in USPS' hands yet I'm a bit sceptical tbh.

I've never had experience of an "item not received" either so hope it doesn't come to that, though I believe with this stalled tracking info it would have to be a fairly straightforward case? Fingers crossed anyway.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

trudy66 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:18:55 GMT

USPS tracking - I have a parcel sent from USA 27 days ago. Took ages to leave US then according to tracking came to Sydney (where its supposed to be) then left Sydney and went to Tokyo and left Tokyo 14 days ago and thats where tracking ends - has'not been updated for 2 weeks - cant contact USPS and so I have to wait another few days until the delivery period is up and then lodge a claim I guess. This is madness!

Re: USPS tracking info changed

hus2385 — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:51:16 GMT

@ruthrcs wrote:
USPS tracking - I have a parcel sent from USA 27 days ago. Took ages to leave US then according to tracking came to Sydney (where its supposed to be) then left Sydney and went to Tokyo and left Tokyo 14 days ago and thats where tracking ends - has'not been updated for 2 weeks - cant contact USPS and so I have to wait another few days until the delivery period is up and then lodge a claim I guess. This is madness!

Hey, there's a coincidence - same here! (almost)

Except my item went from Tokyo to Sydney and nothing since April 15...Aust Post denies that it ever entered the country, almost a week since the last estimated delivery date. Other item posted at the beginning of April never showed up, so I think its safe to say that these items with strange prefixes using 3rd party shipping are 1) never going to be trackable and 2) less than likely to ever show up.

Another parcel I had with the usual 'LZ' prefix was posted 2 weeks later and arrived no issues, tracked all the way here.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

gus_2010 — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:00:11 GMT

Yes the same in my case, starting with UJ tracking but the status never moved ...... almost 3 months waiting and I cant reclaim to anybdoy,... nobody knows what happend...:S

Re: USPS tracking info changed

*tippy*toes* — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:36:13 GMT

Why haven't you contacted the seller and/or opened an item not received dispute to get your money back?

Re: USPS tracking info changed

gus_2010 — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:01:53 GMT

I contacted him, but for some reason my ebay account had a problem with my payment account and the money could not be transfered and the period to get the money back ended... now I am not able to reach the seller :S....

However, it is weird where the packaged starting with UJ are located :S.... I am not the only one with this issue.

Regards.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

lyndal1838 — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:57:18 GMT

Have you tried opening a dispute in paypal if the ebay dispute failed?

It is much quicker and simpler than an ebay dispute.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

zanadoo_56 — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:31:19 GMT

I'll say USPS 1st Class International has gone international.

My purchase was registered and arrived at post office on 07 Jul, and then was sent on to and departed from New York on 09 Jul. Then I got a message on 10 Jul it had departed from NY and was en route to destination. Pretty good so far.

Tonight I get an update on USPS to say my item has now departed from a transfer airport....in Dubai United Arab Emirates.

Hopefully the next stop is Oz...but who knows? I've never seen a US parcel go through Dubai before. Fingers crossed!

Re: USPS tracking info changed

davewil1964 — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:04:10 GMT

They're obviously trying to reinforce the blockade.

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paristar8 — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:35:44 GMT

I had the same problem 2 weeks ago with USPS 1st class international parcel, did a couple of rounds in America, then to Dubai and left Dubai for Australia, kept checking the tracking info, Still in transit and then I copy and pasted the tracking number into Australia Post and it then came up arrived Welshpool WA and had been there for 5 days and then another 2 days before I received it.

I was only using the tracking number the seller gave me and I guess once its scanned in Australia you then you can use Australia Post as that is where I found the info and that it had been sitting at Welshpool

All up it was 13 days when I received it.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

mllzmex1 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:50:02 GMT

I had recently a package sent with a tracking number starting in UJ-- should I take it as lost? Like your case, the status hasn't changed since 5 days from "USPS waiting"

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*tippy*toes* — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:39:35 GMT

I don't understand how a tracking number prefix could indicate it was lost? When was it posted and where was it posted from?

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 05:35:36 GMT

How do you workout that it is lost after 5 days? And what has the prefix got to do with anything?

It ia all but impossible to receive a parcel from the USA in 5 days.

Just because tracking has not been updated it does not follow that it is lost.

Re: USPS tracking info changed

zanadoo_56 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:16:29 GMT

5 business days or is there a Sat or Sun in there somewhere? That would probably extend the time (especially at the Aust Post end).

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mllzmex1 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:46:50 GMT

Ok, sorry I didn't want to imply that the tracking number indicated being lost itself.

The thing is I've bought some items from USA recently (less than 3 months ago) and the prefix of First Class International had always been something starting with letters LC and even with that in mind, tracking had always shown how the items were moving at least starting from an USPS Postal Office.

On the other hand, this was the first time I see a tracking code starting in UJ. It seems UJ has replaced LC because the tracking info says "International Letter" being the same kind of shipping as with First Class International in the past.

This is the first time I see the updated status saying "Departed Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item" since July 11. As today, July 20th Ive no other status -I don't know if USPS has received the package at all to start the shipping process - so that's why I take it as lost.

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porcelain_dolls_by_me — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:50:52 GMT

We get numerous airmail shipment from USA every month and quite often the tracking will show Dubai as being a transit point.

I have always assumed this is because USPS use diiferent freight services for their transaport needs, depending on where the spare freight capacity is under their contract terms.

In the case of shipments transitting Dubai it is possible they have used Emirates as the carrier of the goods.

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lyndal1838 — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:07:19 GMT

@mllzmex1 wrote:

On the other hand, this was the first time I see a tracking code starting in UJ. It seems UJ has replaced LC because the tracking info says "International Letter" being the same kind of shipping as with First Class International in the past.

An International Letter is not the same as a First Class International Parcel....completely different services.
As far as I am aware the International Letter is not fully trackable. You may see where it has been posted and then th next tracking event may be whe it arrives in Australia or even when it is delivered.