Tracking down a mailed quilt....
 

My birdbrain has been overtaxed the last few months, and I only have myself to blame for this predicament.

I mailed a baby quilt to one of my best friend’s daughter in another state. I followed the tracking, and it was delivered 2 days ago. I was a bit surprised that the Mommy never let me know she received the quilt, so I sent a text asking if it arrived....I was afraid someone nabbed it from her front porch. She never received the package...I sent her a screenshot of the tracking, and low and behold, I mailed it to her old address. Sigh. My return address was on and in the package, and my email is on the quilt label. Mommy is going to try to contact current owner. I am hoping they popped it in the mail back to me. Sigh. Any suggestions?

Oh, dear. Good luck. Hope it ends up where it is supposed to.

Hopefully the people who live there now will notify the post office that the package was delivered incorrectly. Since it was not addressed to them (i.e. it had another person's name on it), they are obligated to try to return it. If all else fails, you might try going through the post office for help. Good luck.

Jill, I think between the new mother and the post office the package will be returned to her. As Dunster said- it's the responsibility of the new house dweller and the post office to rectify. Good luck!

Cross your fingers, sit on them and wait. The post office is so slow these days with mail that is correctly addressed. Packages with problems can take forever to get straightened out. I hope I am wrong and your package shows up soon, but it will be a miracle.

It took two months for two letters I sent across town (to the wrong address) to get back to me. Here's hoping you get yours back.

Similar experience
 

The same thing happened to me several years ago - however package was not delivered. New mother (a friend of my daughter) was most upset about not informing us of recent move. Told my daughter to tell new mom not to worry that I would make a new quilt - new mother's have more than enough to be concerned about. Eventually post office tracked down package and it was delivered. I got the best thank you note I ever received. And new mom even sent me flowers on the following Mother's Day. She more than made up for all the thank yous never written.

Hopefully, the owners of the previous address will be kind enough to either send it back to you or find the recipient that it is supposed to go to. I did that once with sending some gift cards to my granddaughter. I sent them to the town they used to live in and to this day I have not gotten them back nor did my granddaughter ever receive them. Oh well, my error and someone else enjoyed the gift cards. I try and be more careful now.

I called my granddaughter to confirm her new address before I mailed a baby quilt from Michigan to New Mexico. I didn't trust my address book - I think I will start dating changes. I mailed it on Wednesday and she received it on Saturday.

I hope the quilt gets delivered.

Unfortunately ... chances are this may be all too true.

As a possibility .... By chance does the intended recipient have friends still living in the neighbourhood of the old address? Might be worth their showing up at the old address and chatting with the new resident!

Good Luck ...

That's not what I experience with the Post Office. We get good service.

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I do hope your quilt get to the new mom.

​​​​​​I heard a post ofie employee talking to customer yesterday.....of all things the customer have sent a package 1 mile from her location. It was certified how is where the post office is showing it's still in transit and the post office employee explained all packages now being sent and received by the US government take priority over all other mail and the other mail gets stacked up and the government mail and packages go out first....so you may be waiting a while. Best wishes.

Let the USPS know what happened. they can look into it for you. The carrier who delivered it may be able to pick it up and send ti back to you. I talked to my sister who was a carrier for 35 years and this was her suggestion.

Thank you so much! I am waiting to hear back from the rental office-the address was an apartment. If they can’t help, I will call the local post office. Mommy did a reverse lookup and got a phone number-has left 2 messages with no reply. :(

Doing a happy dance, cautiously! The package has been returned to the PO and was forwarded this morning...finger, eyes and toes crossed that it is delivered unharmed! Whew.

That's great news!! As much as I grumble about the post office they really do a good job.

I didn’t receive pkg that tracking showed delivered. Went to my local post office and the got the postman that delivered it. He went to the location he delivered to, retrieved pkg and delivered to me. Learned that the person delivering knows exactly where. Have her go to local post office and they will find person that delivered it.

Great! My mother never did recover a hand-knit baby blanket she sent to my DD2. Why she didn't send it to *me* to hand-deliver, I don't know, but she sent it to the the apartment they'd lived in 3 years previously! They'd moved twice since then, https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/frown.png and I guess she just never noticed the change of address.