turmeric_maintenance
Active member
The cross-country bounce pattern is a known USPS routing quirk for packages that enter the network at a specific hub during high volume - NYC into Chicago into Miami into Dallas is not random, it is a specific routing loop that happens when the system misassigns the package to a trunk line rather than the direct regional sort. once it finally reaches the correct regional hub the delivery usually completes quickly. the 3-week status freeze in the first hub is the worst part; after that it tends to move