When your new pistol is in limbo.

[jar]

I recently had a chance to get a lightly used Tisas Fatih which is a licensed clone of the old Beretta Cheetah 84 at a quite favorable price. The purchase was made and FFLs were exchanged and the pistol was shipped and tracking showed it was headed to Austin, Tx 78754.

Neat except for one small fact.

My receiving FFL is in Mission Tx, 78574.

OOOOPs. Missed it by THAT much. Well, by about 300 or so miles.

So it's off driving across country and sometime early next week we should see one of three solutions.

Maybe a human will read the address label and send it on down to Mission or the machine will send it back to the seller or it will show as delivered and somebody in Austin will have a very good day.

The first two will likely be happy if somewhat delayed endings.

 

[Barmcd]

I've had UPS just return to sender when that happens. I've also had USPS bounce a package between my local PO and the Austin Regional center several times before it showed up in my mail box. You never know how the shipper will handle it this time. I hope it shows up soon.

 

[jar]

Well, tracking says it is in transit to next facility, arriving late, but no mention of what the next facility might be or any location after it left Jacksonville, FL on the 9th.

 

[kje54]

Well, tracking says it is in transit to next facility, arriving late, but no mention of what the next facility might be or any location after it left Jacksonville, FL on the 9th.

I've had that happen maybe 10% of the time but with non-firearm packages. Usually they just all of a sudden show up.

 

[jar]

I've had that happen maybe 10% of the time but with non-firearm packages. Usually they just all of a sudden show up.

Hoping that is what happens in this case.

 

[Navy87Guy]

USPS tracking is both a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to know where the package is - but sometimes it makes me go, “What the…”. Like when a package (properly addressed) was dispatched to a town 100 miles away. Or when a package sat in the regional hub for 4 days (on a 2nd Day delivery) before making the final 50 miles to our house. Then there are the ones that just say “moving through the network” until they magically appear in your mailbox!

Fingers crossed that yours will be rerouted to the correct destination!

 

[doubleh]

USPS ships my orders for a sight seeing trip around the US now and then. UPS does the same. It seems Amazon is the only company that has it's ducks in a row when something is shipped on one of their trucks.

 

[hemiram]

My FFL sent two guns I sold to the wrong towns. One guy was really nice about it, but the other FFL held my Beretta 92FS hostage until I coughed up $50 to ship it back. I really hated to sell it anyway, but losing $50 on the price made me very unhappy. I made sure I never bought anything from that guy. That was 11 years ago, and I can't remember the name of the store anymore.

 

[jar]

Well the good news is that the wandering child has been heard from but still not sure where it's going. It was spotted in San Antonio but didn't stay long and it's on the road again...

Maybe tomorrow or Saturday it will arrive at some destination.

 

[citizenconn]

I hope you enjoy it when you can get it. I bought one of these a couple years ago and the firing pin broke after the first shooting. Had a hard time getting Tisas to deal with it. I was not impressed with the pistol at all and sent it down the road after it was repaired. Recoil was uncomfortable for a .380 and it was not nearly as accurate as I had hoped. The cheap plastic grips Tisas put on it cracked after 2 range sessions. Hope you have better luck than me.

 

[jar]

Unfortunately it's headed to Austin.


Bummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wayneinFL]

Unfortunately it's headed to Austin.


Bummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does that address exist in Austin? Is it something like 1101 20th Street, that could be in both cities? Or like 15638 Bob's Gun Shop Way? I would hate to see it dropped at the right address in the wrong city.

 

[jar]

Does that address exist in Austin? Is it something like 1101 20th Street, that could be in both cities? Or like 15638 Bob's Gun Shop Way? I would hate to see it dropped at the right address in the wrong city.

We will find out I imagine. There isn't a 1101 W. Mile 2 Road in Austin but there is a 1101 E 2nd St. in Austin but it's in a different Austin zip code than 78754. So there is no Shooter's Alley or 1101 W Mile 2 Road with a 78754 zip code. Plus the address says Mission Tx as well rather than Austin Tx.

The only part of the address that matches anything on the label is the transposed zip code of 78754 rather than 78574.

 

[Styx]

They'll either return to sender, or will correct the zip code. I have had both happen. I've put the correct zip code and the wrong city, or the wrong zip code and the correct city before. I still always got my package albeit 2 weeks +/- or after the original delivery date.

If there is an address with the same street address in the zip code that you put down, then I don't know how that will work.

 

[jar]

Well, tracking now shows that it is "Out For Delivery" but in Austin, TX 78754 rather than Mission Tx 78574.

And it is such a simply issue that any halfassed programmer should have prevented. A really basic relational database lookup of City+State+Zip would have flagged it. It should be impossible to print a label for Mission, Tx. 78754 or Austin, Tx., 78574.

Any programmer that let something as basic as that get past proof of concept stage would get to attend a major "Enlightenment" moment.

 

[jar]

Well, today Tracking says there is an exception and it's waiting for a "Delivery Scan".

 

[Navy87Guy]

And it is such a simply issue that any halfassed programmer should have prevented. A really basic relational database lookup of City+State+Zip would have flagged it. It should be impossible to print a label for Mission, Tx. 78754 or Austin, Tx., 78574.

True - I always print my USPS labels with PayPal and it auto-corrects any errors in the street name, city, or zip code (or at least prompts me to accept the changes). It takes a millisecond to crosscheck the address against the database.

 

[Todd NE WY]

That auto correct works both ways, I had an amazon business refuse to ship to me because their shipping program said the address I provided does not exist in the zip code that I provided. I have had hundreds of packages delivered to this address but his program said no so he wouldn't ship it.

 

[CajunBass]

I too have watched as packages bounced around the world it seems, so good luck getting it straightened out.

I used to have a Tisas Fatih a while back. Neat little gun that never gave me a bit of trouble. It did have a pretty hefty recoil, but blowback 380's are like that. Yes they are. At least it has a nice size grip to hold onto. Beretta magazines will work.

 

[jar]

Well, it's retracing its steps and now back to San Antonio. It will need to go from the San Antonio Distribution Center Annex to the San Antonio Distribution Center but then we should see it either head south towards me, back north to Austin yet again or eastward towards St. Augustine.

But it's moving and no longer tells me it will arrive late. Not sure if the latter is good news or bad.

 

[jar]

The answer is in. The package is once again out for delivery in Austin, Tx 78754.

 

[br549arkie]

USPS tracking is both a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to know where the package is - but sometimes it makes me go, “What the…”. Like when a package (properly addressed) was dispatched to a town 100 miles away. Or when a package sat in the regional hub for 4 days (on a 2nd Day delivery) before making the final 50 miles to our house. Then there are the ones that just say “moving through the network” until they magically appear in your mailbox!

Fingers crossed that yours will be rerouted to the correct destination!

The winner for me was when I had a package coming from the west coast get within 150miles from me (got to Little Rock Arkansas) and then got sent to San Francisco then back here a 3000 mile detour.

 

[jar]

Here's the scan history so far.

Scan History​

Sep 23​

2:37 pm​

Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX​

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Sep 23​

2:03 pm​

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX​

​

Sep 23​

10:32 am​

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 23​

9:01 am​

Departed USPS Regional Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 22​

7:25 pm​

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 22​

11:42 am​

Arrived at USPS Facility​

AUSTIN,TX 78752​

​

Sep 22​

9:00 am​

Out for Delivery​

AUSTIN,TX 78754​

​

Sep 22​

8:49 am​

Arrived at Post Office​

AUSTIN,TX 78752​

​

Sep 21​

In Transit to Next Facility​

Sep 20​

8:19 pm​

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX​

​

Sep 20​

12:35 am​

Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 19​

9:56 pm​

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 19​

8:54 am​

Arrived at USPS Facility​

AUSTIN,TX 78752​

​

Sep 18​

6:10 am​

Out for Delivery​

AUSTIN,TX 78754​

​

Sep 16​

10:06 pm​

Departed USPS Regional Destination Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 16​

10:06 pm​

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 15​

9:53 am​

Arrived at USPS Facility​

AUSTIN,TX 78752​

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Sep 14​

9:00 am​

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility​

AUSTIN TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 14​

7:40 am​

In Transit to Next Facility​

​

Sep 14​

6:53 am​

Departed USPS Regional Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER​

​

Sep 14​

1:37 am​

Arrived at USPS Regional Destination Facility​

SAN ANTONIO TX DISTRIBUTION CENTER ANNEX​

​

Sep 09​

10:05 pm​

Departed USPS Regional Origin Facility​

JACKSONVILLE FL PACKAGE SORTING CENTER​

​

Sep 08​

12:43 am​

Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility​

JACKSONVILLE FL PACKAGE SORTING CENTER​

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Sep 07​

3:38 pm​

USPS in possession of item​

SAINT AUGUSTINE,FL 32086​

​

It was scheduled to arrive in Mission on the 11th. Maybe by next week it will get here.

This really should not be this difficult.

 

[jar]

What a Long Strange Trip It's Been

It has arrived at the Mission Post Office.

 

[jar]

Well the Fatih finally arrived only two weeks after the scheduled delivery date. It was made in 2021 and seems to have had almost no rounds through it. The Range is closed for cleaning and lead abatement until mid week so will try to test it later this week.