Not for the first time, USPS tracking has provided me with some entertainment and not a little frustration as I've followed the path of a package as it travels to my home. This time the package is a shipment of new stamps from the USPS itself. All went well as the package travelled the familiar route from Kansas City to central Alabama. It covered that distance in a single day, which is unusually fast (I buy a lot of stamps via the USPS web site, and I'm familiar with this route and the normal transit time. In the Birmingham sorting center on the Friday before the Labor Day three day weekend, I reasonably expected it to be delivered on Saturday the 30th of August. But instead, the next tracking update showed the package - less than 20 miles from my home; So close, USPS! - next showed up in... San Franciso, California! Yes, according to the tracking info, the package made it across the continent in a single day. Whether this is a tracking system anomaly, or the package physically travelled to northern California is unclear. The package languished there over the holiday weekend, and part of this past week before returning to Birmingham a week later than when it had last been there. It is now supposedly safe at the Helena post office, and will hopefully be delivered to my home in the next hour or two. What a roundabout way to get stamps!
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