I bought a package and it had tracking. It was shipped to my home address in AZ and I forwarded it to my daughter in TX. The tracking from the original shipment was okay to use for the forwarding. I kept track of it on the USPS website. The forwarded package made it to TX and someone there sent it back to Vegas. I emailed USPS and asked them what part of "forward" did they not understand. They pulled the package out at Vegas and sent it back to TX. It made it to my daughter. That's one advantage of tracking. If it goes off on a tangent you can email the PO and they'll find it.