I’ve been scratching my head since I got this tracking number Wednesday night. I had ordered a new card reader from Amazon.com and paid the $3.99 overnight shipping for Amazon Prime members hoping to receive the package on Friday. Amazon shipped the package Next Day Air Saver from a warehouse about 10 miles from my house. This is where things get strange.
I checked the tracking Thursday morning expecting it to see it in the local sort facility waiting to go out for delivery Friday, but instead, it had been placed on a plane and flown to the UPS hub in Louisville, KY! By Friday morning it had come back to the regional sort facility, but too late to get to my local sort facility to go out today.
Curious about the UPS holiday schedule, I looked it up only to find that as long as my package went out on Wednesday as either international or Next Day Air, it would be delivered on Friday.
Wednesday, Dec. 31, New Year’s Eve
Delivery of air and international packages only. No UPS Ground pickups or deliveries today. Pickup service provided for air and international shipments via UPS On-Call Pickup service, at all UPS Drop Boxes or if prearranged by Tuesday, Dec. 30. (Next Day Air packages picked up today will be delivered on Friday, Jan. 2.)
Friday was originally reflected as the delivery date before it was diverted to Louisville. Friday morning it was showing “On Time” with a delivery date of Monday, January 5th. Oddly enough UPS somehow managed to get the package to my door today. I guess maybe it was just a glitch with their tracking system.