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I had a package like that a couple years ago during the winter holidays. It was ordered a couple days before Thanksgiving but got caught up in Black Friday / Cyber Monday - and, of course, there was the pandemic. My package spent several days heading toward the East Coast, then Chicago, then Pittsburgh, then Indianapolis, then Philly, then Denver for some reason, St Louis, Pittsburgh, New York, Virginia, then finally to me.
Supposedly at the time (DeJoy was fucking around with the Post Office, not sure if this is still true), they'd been running metrics on the various transfer centers and if your center had a certain percentage of packages not moving for a certain amount of time, they'd target that center for "improvements", not accepting that (1) it was the holidays so parcels were up, (2) it was the pandemic so workers were sick and dying, and (3) it was the pandemic so massive amounts of people were ordering online. [Remember this?]
Anyway, in order to avoid being targeted by DeJoy's "improvements", some stations were reportedly taking delayed packages that were about to impact their metrics and shipping then out of station wherever they had room on a truck (though they'd at least try to send it in the right direction, that wasn't anyways possible).
Also, a reminder that fucker DeJoy is still the postmaster, and a staunch Republican. I fully expect him to pull more bullshit moves for next year's elections.