USPS Being Itself Again....

I had an insured First Class package initially travel close to its Detroit-area address, then sent back to Chicago, then sent to Omaha, then back to Chicago, then back to Detroit and finally to the correct address, Total elapsed time, 34 days from late December to early February this year. Total postage cost about $7.

What is really hilarious is I keep getting updates about the search request on the previous shipment of coins I received about 4 weeks ago;'your item has not been recovered but every effort...". Talk about dysfunctional.

Apparently the opposite can happen too. Tracking stated coins will be delivered later, but when checking my mailbox the packages are sitting there.

Very good news!

Like you, I receive packages often from Eastern Europe.

AFter last summer, some of the sellers went to courier only delivery to the U.S. (FedEx , DHL) at a cost of anywhere between $45 to $75. But the seller I buy from most often never changed their policy, of shipping registered mail by Poczta Polska (the Polish postal service) for $7. I think a few shipments last year took 4 to 5 weeks to reach me, but they are now back to almost normal, which was 2-3 weeks pre-pandemic.

I want to describe two of my cases.
In December, I made 2 orders from one seller and he sent them. There were some problems with shipping from London ( from the US they went to Britain first). In the end, I only received one package. The other one returned to the seller with a mention of non-demand. I can't say for sure whose jamb was the American mail or the Russian one. Now I'm waiting for a package from the same seller again, and it's stuck in London again. The sad thing is that I can't track them on the territory of Russia. I think they're changing their numbers or something.

@EddieD, it's the same for me with registered packages from Poland.
Sometime last year the USPS decided to make the tracking info unavailable for registered mail from Poland, even after the package arrives in the U.S.
Very strange policy because it seems to me this means the software needed to be re-programmed to selectively drop certain countries (I was not aware this also happened for Hungary.)

For those who have not received these kinds of mailings, the European registered mail system appears to give all registered letters a tracking number like this:
RX123456789CO.

- The first character is always an R
- the second character is a letter that varies by country (best I can tell)
- next is a 9-digit number
- the last two characters are a country code: FR, DE, PL etc.

This is why I say USPS must have intentionally re-programmed its system to stop tracking registered letters with a number that ends in PL and HU.

Still missing a package that I ordered back before Christmas and no updates from my complaints. I eventually was refunded from ebay but the seller had to take the hit. Now I have another priority package from only 100 miles away that has gone MIA. I'll go through the same worthless routine again but I suspect mail theft by one of the employees. With all the cameras and security you would think the USPS could get to the bottom of the situation but they just make the consumer jump through hoops with no accountability to the USPS whatsoever! This clown, Louis DeJoy needs to be fired.

Was never qualified to be there in the first place.