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I currently have a package overdue that tracking listed as being in Elmira NJ for over ten days, then suddenly showed up in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is closer, but not at all local. Next it was shown as being in Santa Clarita, about 300 miles away, but at least part of my local system, as if I were to mail a letter to my next-door neighbor, it would leave town and get trucked to Santa Clarita, then sorted and shipped back here for delivery, thus traveling 600 or so miles to move a few dozen feet.

However, my package went from Santa Clarita back to Salt Lake City, for some unknown reason, but is now back in California, shown as received at Bakersfield, which is only a couple of hundred miles away, but on the wrong side of the mountains which have no passes open this time of year, so not a very good sign.

So far, it has been 16 days in transit since received by USPS. I'm just hoping that if & when it does eventually arrive, that it is still in usable condition!?!?

It seems to me that USPS has been severely compromised by WOKE policy and DEI hiring practices, if nothing else!