/rant on

And they wonder why people are using FedEx and UPS instead of the US Postal Service.  Hmmm…I wonder why.  Perhaps this shitty “tracking” system is why!

This afternoon, I got an email confirming the shipment of an item I bought on eBay:

I was so excited!  I clicked on the link (the pixelated line of numbers up there), only to get the following really helpful message from the USPS website:

If this had been the first time I had been duped into clicking a “tracking” link from the US Postal Service, I would probably think “oh, well, maybe it hasn’t been updated in their system yet or something”, but it’s NOT.  Every single time I get a shipping confirmation from the USPS, it leads me to a page that tells me there is no record of the item.

And yet, all of the items have eventually found their way to my house, which leads me to believe that the USPS tracking system is a giant bullshit lie.

If you’re going to offer a service in modern times that promises to track a package, you had damn well better actually track the effing package.  Just because you tell me that it’s being tracked doesn’t mean it actually is unless it actually is being tracked!

So, if the USPS is wondering “what can we do to compete with FedEx and UPS”, I have the answer for them:

ACTUALLY TRACK PACKAGES.  DON’T JUST SAY YOU ARE DOING IT AND GIVE ME A BULLSHIT LINK!

/rant off

Ah, I feel better.  If only everyone would just run everything past me.  Then the world would be a much better place.  For me, anyway!