According to the USPS website the package left the post office that day and left St. Louis two days later, headed to a distribution center in New York. However, there the progress stopped. Gee's birthday came and went, and we were forced to send an apology text to her parents.
Today I learned that since it's been seven days since the package was mailed I could file a missing package search request. Search request has been filed. In all of the kerfluffle this text I received almost made sense....
until I read it more carefully. Then I realized it was a smishing scam text and did NOT take action on it!
Five years ago: Supreme Signpost
Yes it is so important to read the fine print. What a frustrating situation.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the first time I've scanned something and almost acted on it. The scammers are getting sneakier.
DeleteThere are so many scammers out there.
ReplyDeleteYes there are.
DeleteSo glad you didnt fall for it I might not be so lucky.-Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteIt's SO important to be careful!
DeleteUnfortunately,
ReplyDeletethere are now many scams,
fortunately you read the fine print!
Agreed.
DeleteScams everywhere ...
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
The world would be such a better place if those scammers actually did good things instead of evil.
DeleteAmen.
DeletePoo! Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteYes!
DeleteI am so sick of scammers... They work harder at being criminals than what they would work having a nice job.
ReplyDeleteAMEN!
DeleteScammers are getting more and more realistic, making it harder to figure out what's real and what's a scam. USPS is the worst way to send anything. They no longer take responsibility for when your packages or mail arrives. The anniversary card my mom sent me took a month to get here.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I have had good luck with the Post Office, and they charge less than other options for places I need to mail to.
DeleteSending a package from St. Louis to California by way of New York sounds like classic post office logic! I’m so sorry Gee’s birthday puzzle got caught up in the distribution center black hole, but hopefully, that search request gets it moving again soon.
ReplyDeleteIncredible job spotting the scam text, too. When you are genuinely stressed and waiting on a package, it is so easy to accidentally click those links. Way to stay sharp!
We've had the opportunity to take flights that were equally illogical...we chose not to.
DeleteSounds frustrating for sure.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be so careful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame your parcel did not arrive in time for your granddaughter's birthday. Sending parcels is a bit of a lottery here, too.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like when I mail early things show up as expected (or even in less time than advertised).
DeleteIt would be nice if folks would just do their job. Since the Covid pandemic there's been a phenomena called "quiet quitting" where some employees instead of looking for a new job, get pissy over their lot in life and simply refuse to do the bare minimum. Very bad if an unsuspecting customer pays and gets zero service.
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteWas the package ever found? I've had multiple amazon deliveries fail to arrive in the past three months until I"m skeptical to order from amazon until they get things straight.
ReplyDeleteThere has been progress, and a new post with more details coming soon.
DeleteThose types of badly written messages often show up in my spam email folder. Since I ship very few things, I don't give them a second thought. The one you received would have raised my spidy sense when they wanted to put it in a special center for pickup. Definitely not the way the post office works.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I figured out when I read the text a second time!
DeleteI hadn't thought about it that way!
ReplyDeleteMost scammer links can be spotted by seeing what shows up when you hover over the link. Sometimes I have to copy the unseen link and paste it in notebook.
ReplyDeleteI usually consult my son about questionable things. It seems to happen daily!
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