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So i took advantage of the Aaron Judge craze and sold a card for some decent change.  got a USPS label.  Dropped off in blue mailbox at post office.  No scan in.  So no in-transit notification as of yet.  It should have been picked up saturday afternoon or at least monday. 

Thing is i went to the fed store to print my label off their printers and the fed ex person stated they could make it a sticky label.   They put the image into their computer and made it a sticky label that i attached to the package and drove to the post office.  wondering if somehow there is a new tracking number or its unscannable?  

Anyone else experience this with the unscanning of packages?  ive seen it on the ebay labels for PWE, a lot, but not on normal labels. 

Monday was a holiday.

AHHHHHH i had to work forget it is federal.  So that could explain that, but no scan today... should have been picked up last night, or i believe i may have dropped it off Saturday and should have been scanned that night. potentially.  

Either way, i will give it another day. thanks for that. 

If you drop it off in the blue box, there's no guarantee it gets scanned right away (even if Monday hadn't been a holiday). It might travel some distance before actually getting into the system. Or at least that's my experience.

This has been my experience, too. A big part of it depends on the specific mail carriers who handle the package along the way and how diligent they are in scanning the bar code at each step. As concerning as it is that you haven't seen any scans to this point, I'd try not to worry too much just yet. Keep us posted, though!

My USPS is a major hub and when it is over loaded like Christmas, they will ship bins of packages to a distribution center and the package will not get scanned until that center goes through the bin.  Sometimes it can be 3-5 days.  But it always goes!

Not USPS as I live in New Zealand, but I did have my company's courier provider once state about missing scans "Don't worry about it, we are just not very good at scanning stuff".

This was during the height of the pandemic when packages were taking weeks to travel around New Zealand and everything was chaos. Given some of these packages contained tens of thousands of dollars worth of product, when they were not scanned in anywhere, sometimes for over a week, I did worry — quite a bit! 

So, I can feel your pain. Hopefully some tracking pops up soon.

Thanks all.  I did fill out a "find my missing mail" case with USPS and this morning they updated the scans and showed it had been scanned out of dallas.  So its on its way.  I also like that it showed that a case was opened so if the buyer of the card on ebay looks to follow tracking they can see that the seller was proactive in tracking.