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USPS Package left airport twice?

Post by untamed »

I am hoping someone can shed some light on this as I am very confused, my package left the airport heading for the UK on 2 separate days and at different times. I will let the tracking speak for itself.

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Can someone please tell me what is going on? I am getting antsy because even if there were some sort of mistake and it got here some time this morning i'd assume with today being a bank holiday I won't get an update on Royal Mail's tracking and i've already waited a long time for this and have been looking forward to getting my hands on it from the day I ordered it which was on the 16th of May.

Thank you
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USPS Package left airport twice?

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Well nobody here works for USPS or US customs for a start so nobody can actually say why there appear to be two scans saying it's departed the US twice.

One might be a customs scan, one might be a USPS scan, one might be a scan when it gets put in a flight container who knows.....

I would imagine both US customs and USPS and their partner carrier services are all having the same sort of staffing and logistical issues
that we are having in the UK, so even though you ordered the item in April (I'm assuming you meant 16th of April not May)
I think the time you're going to be waiting to receive your item is going to be measured in terms of weeks rather than days by the
time it's flown into the UK (it might fly via another country for a start) and then passed through UK customs (where it might
be subject to a customs surcharge - which you will have to pay before it is released for the final delivery mile).
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It could be its has indeed left Chicago twice.

USPS is one of the few companies that scan some products at every point in the Network.

So it's possible they scanned it when it left the Chicago Mail Centre, then scanned it again when the placed it on the aircraft (or passed it to Customs/Homeland Security) at the Airport itself.
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USPS Package left airport twice?

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yellowbelly wrote:so even though you ordered the item in April (I'm assuming you meant 16th of April not May)
I think the time you're going to be waiting to receive your item is going to be measured in terms of weeks rather than days by the
time it's flown into the UK (it might fly via another country for a start) and then passed through UK customs (where it might
be subject to a customs surcharge - which you will have to pay before it is released for the final delivery mile).
I did indeed mean April thank you for correcting me, I had a late night last night and hadn't drank enough coffee before making the post. I was up late watching 2 planes head for the UK which one could of potentially had my package and about an hour and half into one of the flights after it was about to go over the sea it got diverted back to the airport, so as you can imagine I struggled to wind down and sleep after that.

I will be happy to pay a customs charge, it is only a cardboard checkers board and pieces, what do you think the likely hood is that i'll be charged for this? I paid around £60 for it (which includes the shipping)

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:It could be its has indeed left Chicago twice.

USPS is one of the few companies that scan some products at every point in the Network.

So it's possible they scanned it when it left the Chicago Mail Centre, then scanned it again when the placed it on the aircraft (or passed it to Customs/Homeland Security) at the Airport itself.
I was thinking this too but I signed up for email updates and they both tell me that my package departed the airport.

The first email I got
Your item departed a transfer airport in O'HARE INTERNATIONAL, CHICAGO, UNITED STATES on May 6, 2020 at 5:59 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
Then the next day I was checking Royal Mail's tracking to see if it had received a scan to say it was here and then I got another email this time saying
Your item departed a transfer airport in O'HARE INTERNATIONAL, CHICAGO, UNITED STATES on May 7, 2020 at 9:28 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
Which is just very confusing.
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USPS Package left airport twice?

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Just received this
Your item departed a transfer airport in NEWARK INTERNATIONAL, NEWARK, UNITED STATES on May 8, 2020 at 8:01 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
Oh lawd help meh
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USPS Package left airport twice?

Post by untamed »

Too many posts don't seem to update with the outcome, for people of the future reading this here is how my tracking has progressed since my last post.

USPS Tracking:

May 12, 2020, 1:08 pm
Processed through Facility
UNITED KINGDOM
Your item was processed through a facility in UNITED KINGDOM on May 12, 2020 at 1:08 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

May 12, 2020, 11:23 am
Processed Through Facility
UNITED KINGDOM

May 9, 2020, 7:15 am
Departed
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Royal Mail Tracking:

Tuesday 12 May
01:08pm
Item has left our International Processing Centre
Heathrow Worldwide DC, United Kingdom

Tuesday 12 May
11:23am
Item Received
LANGLEY HWDC, United Kingdom

Monday 04 May
07:27pm
Item Leaving overseas
United States of America

I'll update this post when my package arrives.
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