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[SOLVED] Postal Delays Puzzle

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 2:55 pm

Albedo · Boot Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 34

OK, moving to this thread, the status of my parcels 2h and 15 mins after dispatch are as follows:

1 & 5 Pending
3,4,7 & 8 Delivered
2 & 6 delayed

For easy reference, from the other thread

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 3:29 pm

colacadstink · Boot Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 28

HELP!

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 3:40 pm

poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

Re: HELP!

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 3:43 pm

colacadstink · Boot Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 28

Yeah, using a shifted reload works.

THanks.

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 3:48 pm

Azador

Albedo, what location did you send your parcels to? The first package I sent, Priority/Normal/1000g to the Academy, is now marked as 'delivered' (but 90 minutes after being sent still read 'pending'. I'm not sure when it changed over.)

And I wonder--does 'delayed' ever change to 'delivered'?

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 4:04 pm

lizziec

Are we going to have to watch the status of each every few minutes to see how long it takes for each to be delivered because it doesn't tell you the time of delivery??? This is going to be a long job...

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 4:16 pm

Azador

Looks like people at Perplexorum and welovepuzzles have been sending many packages and getting some delayed responses. Someone set up a Google spreadsheet to record all of the different packages sent. Posting to the spreadsheet requires a GoogleID, though.

Apparently if a delayed package is delivered the status will read "Delivered (delayed)".

Edit:
All of the packages I sent - to each destination with Standard/Normal/1000g and no additions - now have status of "Pending (delayed)." Oh, dear. Is it possible that we overloaded the system?

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 4:28 pm

Albedo · Boot Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 5:40 pm

woojitsu · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

I think we can safely assume that Pending(delayed) results are not the same as Delayed. Violet was concerned about parcels delayed by "up to a day," and the Priority parcels that I sent just before noon (PDT) have had their status changed from Pending(delayed) to Delivered. I'm not sure that a delay of only an hour over stated delivery times is a useful result for our experiment.

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 6:31 pm

Azador

woojitsu, you're probably right. About half of my parcels have now changed to Delivered, but I have yet to see a package that actually says "Delivered (delayed)" so I'm now wondering if they actually exist.

Albedo, do your delay packages say Pending (delayed) or Delivered (delayed)?

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 7:42 pm

colacadstink · Boot Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 28

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 7:58 pm

Azador

From Perplex City Post:

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 8:16 pm

kizandtango · Veteran Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 108

Anyone tried emailing Vi, to see if she can intercept one of her mates parcels, or just ask him what kind of weight his parcels are (or at least a "between Xkg and Xkg) and where they are coming from?
Long shot but im gonna ask anyway

**Posted:** Thu May 10, 2007 8:24 pm

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Albedo · Boot Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 34

**Posted:** Fri May 11, 2007 3:50 am