So I’ve been looking at the USPS tracking page for a parcel that’s supposed to arrive, and today I found that it said “Arrival at Unitâ€. Joy, I thought, because it had finally arrived! I went outside only to find…nothing. Shock and horror followed, as I immediately had imaginations of my parcel being stolen or lost.
Then it occurred to me that maybe “Unit” wasn’t *my* unit. Well, yeah. So it turns out that “Unit” in this case actually means a local USPS post office. You’d think that “Unit” would mean apartment, suite, house, or whatever, but no, it does not. Thanks for the really clear delivery advice USPS! It wasn’t the least bit misleading at all.
To my relief, I got my parcel the very next day, and while I’m glad about it, I’m still not sure why USPS doesn’t change “Arrival At Unit” to “Arrival At Facility” or something less misleading.
Oh wells. At least I got my parcel.
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August 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
You must try the South African postal services! Parcels just disappear into limbo, “between” destinations, and that is where they stay. it is so bad that Amazon has only recently started shipping stuff to South Africa again!
November 28th, 2009 at 9:47 am
hehe go fedex next ?
November 4th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
So After It Arrived To Your local Post office it took another day to get to your house?
November 7th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Yepp :/
January 29th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
did you think your mailman stopped by your home at 2:49 am?
March 11th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Hi Alvin,
After you received the package,on USPS website tracking result is still arrived at unit or delivered?
Hope to hear from you
March 11th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
delivered
August 30th, 2011 at 11:38 am
I just went through the same experience, which I followed up with a google search of “what does arrival at unit mean”, which led me here.
November 4th, 2011 at 11:48 am
I know this is wayyyyyyyyy late and nobody will probably see it…. But what possessed you to think that the USPS delivers mail at 2:50AM???
December 1st, 2011 at 9:33 pm
I think it’s stupid that it takes 3 whole days to get a damn letter to a house 7 miles from me, however, in 3 days they can also get a letter to Georgia!! They just love taking money then screwing with us!!!!