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Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 5:25 pm
by bloke
GPX:
USPS: In Transit
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 10:02 am
by Rick Denney
bloke wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 5:25 pm
GPX:
USPS: In Transit
They are the same in terms of operational concept. The package's identifier is noted and entered into a system at waypoints.
The technology is probably different. I suspect USPS has a lot of automation to scan actual bar codes which are then entered into the system automatically, and thus gets it right often enough to provide approximately useful tracking. I also suspect that there is zero automation of tracking for Greyhound, and they might not even have bar-code scanners. They might enter waybill numbers manually at each waypoint, which means an incorrect entry or a neglectful employee simply enters the number incorrectly, or doesn't get it scanned at all, and it goes missing. Given the apparent incidence of GPX packages languishing in the corners of station freight storage rooms and warehouses, and perhaps the ease with which package identifiers can be scraped off the package (by accident or otherwise), it's no wonder that the system is unreliable.
Rick "USPS has really improved tracking in the last couple of decades; Greyhound has gotten worse" Denney
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 10:10 am
by bloke
My sarcastic point being that - as USPS only informs me that something is "in transit", that's the same exact amount of information that GPX offers when it tells me absolutely nothing.
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 11:26 am
by Three Valves
USPS gives an estimated date of delivery, which is usually pretty accurate, as well as check ins at sorting facilities or on truck for delivery.
But I get the drift...
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 5:14 pm
by barry grrr-ero
USPS has one more letter.
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 5:53 pm
by bloke
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 5:55 pm
by bort2.0
You can buy insurance for USPS losing stuff.
Which it's all taxpayer dollars anyway, so if you file a claim, you, your family, and your friends are all paying for it.
Re: Can anyone explain the difference between GPX tracking and USPS tracking?
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 9:30 am
by Three Valves
bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 5:55 pm
You can buy insurance for USPS losing stuff.
Which it's all taxpayer dollars anyway, so if you file a claim, you, your family, and your friends are all paying for it.
Are you implying that Government “insurance” programs are not actuarially based??
That they sell what I would go to prison for I tried to pull that??
