Has anyone else had problems with USPS Tracking?

I had one package many months ago that landed in a distribution center outside of Chicago. It sat there for WEEKS. The delay was blamed on Covid and other issues, but once enquiries were placed all of a sudden the package miraculously appeared back in the system and moving towards Florida.

So best advice is that the senders file missing mail documentation and hope for the best. The buyers, of course, should as you mentioned be issued refunds.

I have had problems with USPS tracking with expensive purchases from France and UK.I was able to track both letters and they all arrived at the ultimate office in Miami.I then received texts saying there was a Delivery Exception and delivery would be delayed.After a delay of almost 2 weeks,the situation had not changed and I called USPS Customer Service.They advised me that the letters could not be delivered as the address was not shown on either letter.Both sellers sent me scans of the envelopes,with delivery address written on both sides of the letters.USPS told me the letters would be returned to the sellers.I have checked with both sellers and the letters have not been received.The seller in France reluctantly gave me a refund but said he would no longer mail to USA,as this has happened before.I am still trying to get a refund from the UK seller.
I have just checked again on the USPS site and it still shows the same information.Nothing about letters being delivered or returned.

I've stopped using USPS for any stamp shipments. I'm approaching $10,000 of lost auction lots from Germany this year alone. I'm able to get my money back from the auction houses, but the irreplaceable rare stamps are presumably gone forever.

Yes, Xavier (hrdoktorx), I had forgotten about that incident.

It was a strange one, because USPS claimed to have attempted the delivery once, but they didn't leave the claim slip in the mailbox that they normally should have, which would have allowed me either to schedule a new delivery to the house or take the claim slip to the local post office and collect the item.  I even spoke to the regular mail carrier about it at the time, and he said that another carrier had handled his route on the day in question.

I had previously received shipments for Xavier on 2-3 other occasions with no problems, but that last one went wrong, and it seems that USPS managed to bungle it completely.  It shouldn't have been an issue, but it ended up being one.  Sorry about that, Xavier.  I don't blame you for not wanting to try it again.

I have had many issues with the postal facilities in the Chicago area. Many of the Chicago city offices will not scan a package unless you wait in line for a receipt (I now use a local suburban office where I can just drop things off and know they will be scanned as received).
The next problem is the sorting facilities, many of them may not scan the packages as they are processed in the facility. You then need to wait until it shows up at the local receiving facility to know where it's really at.
It seems to be a bigger problem on anything dropped off on a Monday. I had one shipment sent to Puerto Rico that seemed to be lost for two weeks (sent on a Monday), so I sent a replacement (on a Wednesday). They both ended up arriving on the following Monday.
Most times my request for Missing Mail Search seems to prod them to find an item and get it delivered within a few days.

Did you do this as a help request or a missing mail search request?
If you do it as a help request it gets sent to your local post office. They drop it if it hasn't arrived at their facility.
The missing mail search request goes to the main office in Atlanta, who do a systemwide search.

I have lots of issues with the USPS when it comes to actually getting mail. And a lot of packages seem to disappear for no apparent reason. Our carrier also has an issue with numbers, apparently, and delivers the neighborhood mail (there's 12 houses in our neighborhood) wherever she feels like. We have to meet and switch the mail that's not ours.

I've come to the conclusion that the USPS here in Atlanta is nothing but a works program for the feckless. I avoid then as much as I can now. And considering who the Postmaster General is, it doesn't shock me at all.

Good luck everyone.

A follow up to previous post regarding Delivery Exception message from USPS.The package eventually arrived but nothing has been changed on the USPS site.I enetered the tracking number again and still got the same response..delivery will be delayed due to Delivery Exception.I was previously told that this package would be returned to the sender in England.I had already contacted him to ask about a refund but he had not started a refund process.I am curious to see what would happen if a refund process was started.Would USPS be able to deduce the package had been delivered ?
I am just relieved that I received the package.

Does anyone remember when Harry Winston MAILED the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian? That was a shout out to the postal service for being so trustworthy and reliable. Pic of the package follows.

What the hell happened to our postal service?