Strange Situation with Vendor/Shipping - Insight Needed

So a strange situation has happened, and I'll start off with this:

There are 4 packages: Package 1, Package 2, Package 3, Package 4 There are 3 Cities: City A, City B, City C There are 2 Post Offices: PO i, PO ii (near City D)

Now, let me explain the situation: I ordered 4 packages, going to 3 different cities. The vendor I ordered from said he dropped them off at 2 different post offices, so 2 packages at each (supposedly). Package 1 was going to City A via PO i, Package 2 was going to City B via PO ii, Packages 3/4 were going to City C with one via PO i and one via PO ii (supposedly). Each package's postage was bought within a span of 5 minutes, so at the same time essentially at an SSK and all packages had the same expected delivery date. Packages 1 and 2 arrived just fine without any issue. Packages 3/4 did not arrive.

I checked tracking on both packages 1/2 once they arrived and eventually got the tracking for package 3 since nothing ever came. The tracking on Package 1 said it arrived at City D's Post Office the same day that the postage was bought (for example, its postage was bought on Monday, picked up by mailman, then moved to City D's post office Monday night). Package 2's tracking said it arrived at City D's Post Office the next day the postage was bought (bought Monday, arrived Tuesday night). City D is not that far away from this SSK which leads me to believe he dropped package 1 off the same day he bought the postage and dropped package 2 the next day which could account for the staggered tracking. Okay, fine.

The tracking I got for Package 3, though, shows that the package was never accepted or scanned into the system. It just says: "The U.S. Postal Service has received electronic notification from our Self-Service Kiosk (SSK) in ["city"] on ["Monday"] to expect your shipment for mailing. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later." I am inclined to believe that the tracking for Package 4 says the same thing.

Now here's the sticky situation. There was a drug raid in City C (where Packages 3/4 are going) not too long ago, and someone was caught with a variety of drugs, and I believe he got caught with some in the mail too (no connections between drop addresses/persons living there for packs 3/4 and the guy who got raided). Because of that, and because of this weird situation with the tracking not updating, is it possible that since packages 3/4 are going to City C from a "weed" state, they were flagged? I don't know if it's the same state as the guy's who got raided package was from. That's what I'm mainly concerned about, and that Packages 3/4 will get a controlled delivery because of this previous raid. Packs 3/4 were sent after the raid occurred.

OR is the vendor lying to me and he didn't actually send them out, that he simply bought the postage and never dropped them off? This could make sense. I feel like if he did drop them off, there would be some sort of scan that says it arrived at some post office at least. Even if the packages were flagged when the postage was bought, how would a mail carrier know that the packages were flagged when he picks them up from the SSK? I feel like he would at least travel with them to the sorting facility and once scanned in, then they'd be flagged, but that scan would still show up on tracking.

I don't know, and any insight would be nice. It's strange. The vendor says he dropped 4 packages off at 2 different post offices, and one package from each post office was successfully delivered while one was not.

Should I be concerned for my safety? Or is the vendor not being honest with his shipping? It's been over a week since I ordered those packages, two of which arrived within 2 days of them being accepted into the mail system. Two others seem to have not been accepted into the system. Either the vendor hasn't dropped them off yet, or he did drop them off but they're lost, or he had someone else drop them off but stole them, or they were accepted but pulled aside so they could be inspected.

Here is a picture of the tracking without any sensitive info. Top is one of City C's packages, bottom is City A's package: http://imgur.com/KxDoSr1

Help?


Comments


[1 Points] None:

First - I am sorry, but nobody is going to be able to give you an accurate answer here. The best you will get is a bunch of wild speculation and I fear that it will make you worry more, and not less. There are far too many variables and possibilities. You're clearly already very anxious and I am afraid that people will just keep adding suggestions about things that could have happened without having any way to finding out what actually did happen.

Your best bet is to continue to check the tracking on the last two packages, and open a disupte if it doesn't arrive in an appropriate timeframe. Nobody can predict if it will result in any sort of strategic delivery from LE, but it's good practice to assume all your orders have the same potential, and mind your routine accordingly.

Good luck!


[0 Points] CannabizHempire:

We can't know.

I'd stagger a guess you could be right about the increased scrutiny, since freedom favors the cautious.

Vendor could be profiled, mabie with his label, or packages.