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Usually when something appears on USPS as "Carrier Held", one of there things happen.
1. the package sits and eventually gets delivered with a new label. Often if I'm able to peel off the new label, the one under it has defective address info. The bar code got it to the post office but the post office had no usable address to deliver it.
2. The package or label is mangled and comes in a USPS damaged mail pouch or USPS retaped.
3. It goes back to the shipper who does what is necessary to get it properly delivered by a more suitable carrier. I suspect this has to do with the class/price of fee does not match the actual package (think steel fork lift pallet arms being shipped under the class/price of a medium priority flat rate box).
Lack of address doesn't prevent Amazon deliveries. I have received more than a couple of Amazon packages that didn't even have my address on it. I have been left scratching my head trying to figure out how the USPS was able to deliver them. I guess they got the information from either the bar codes or the QR codes on the packages.
Lack of address doesn't prevent Amazon deliveries. I have received more than a couple of Amazon packages that didn't even have my address on it. I have been left scratching my head trying to figure out how the USPS was able to deliver them. I guess they got the information from either the bar codes or the QR codes on the packages.
We can either scan the barcode with our mobile if the updates are installed or the supervisor can look up the tracking number. A percentage of carriers and supervisors won't think of trying it and just scan the piece as undeliverable, probably using an insufficient address as the reported reason.
Usually when something appears on USPS as "Carrier Held", one of there things happen.
1. the package sits and eventually gets delivered with a new label. Often if I'm able to peel off the new label, the one under it has defective address info. The bar code got it to the post office but the post office had no usable address to deliver it.
2. The package or label is mangled and comes in a USPS damaged mail pouch or USPS retaped.
3. It goes back to the shipper who does what is necessary to get it properly delivered by a more suitable carrier. I suspect this has to do with the class/price of fee does not match the actual package (think steel fork lift pallet arms being shipped under the class/price of a medium priority flat rate box).
So in this reporting case "carrier" is not the letter carrier but UPS, USPS or other company?
So in this reporting case "carrier" is not the letter carrier but UPS, USPS or other company?
What I have seen, it usually is occurring within the carrier's processing before it reached the local mail carrier. I would say that the vast majority of times, when it happened with USPS, the label is damaged so it's held until a new address label can be affixed so the carrier knows whose door to drop that package.
I once got a carrier held and when it finally arrived, there were two different address labels on the package that was printed together. Based on tracking and the info I got from Amazon, the package was loaded into a bin for UPS to pick up and deliver the entire bin the the USPS regional sort center for my area. Once it arrived and the individual packages were unloaded and scanned into USPS, they had a conflict and had to get AMAZON to tell them which label was correct. Once that was figured out, a new label was affixed and sent to my local carrier's center for delivery.
some items are locally stocked in their warehouses,no need to pay for rush delivery.
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