Monday, May 28, 2012

Why do tracking numbers never show anything for me?

Why do tracking numbers never show anything for me?
I've been getting registered stuff from Taiwan and Argentina. The numbers always start with RR. I type them in and they show that they left the country of departure. After that no information ever updates, ever. Even after receiving the package I can look back and it still has no updated info about it having arrived here. I'm paying money not only for it to be insured here, but also so I can keep tabs on it. If a package were to get lost, isn't the information on every location the package has passed important in tracking it? That's one of the purposes of tracking I thought. Yet here I am, always only getting to see that it left and then it stays empty like that forever, and I have to wonder if my package got lost. It's like the postal system has gotten lazy, and it's constantly making me worry my packages are missing. I just see no reason that there should never be an update on where it is. One tracking number didn't even show that it left, it kept showing up as invalid until hours after I received, where it says that it made it to my location. Seriously, only one piece of information? It should show EVERY SINGLE LOCATION it passed to make its way to my house, not just my house only. Someone has got to know what's going on here. Are all postal systems in the world just being lazy gits who could give less than a damn that people are paying for actual tracking? Or do they think tracking is just a fancy name. Because receiving the tracking number sure as hell should have more meaning than just getting to view that it arrived at your house, after you already received it and you could care less to check up on that info anymore.
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The tracking number from another country does not have to be honored by the U.S. postal service, and vice versa as well. If you send a package with a tracking number from the U.S. to a foreign country via postal service, their postal workers are not obligated to track anything. This is because they are government workers and can not be told what to do by other governments. Now, if you ship by Fed Ex or UPS, that's another story, because the entire path taken by the package is within their custody - i.e. the same company handles the package, and they are employees of the same company, even if they work in different countries. So, it's the FED EX guy's JOB to scan the package from beginning to end. But with government Postal systems, do you really think some guy in Greece or France or Argentina gives a crap what the USPS asks them to do? Or do you think a USPS worker gives a crap what the post office in Argentina asks them to do? They should cooperate, but they don't. Typical government worker attitude.



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