Thats not out of the ordinary. Remember usps doesn't deliver Sundays and a lot less is being delivered Saturdays I believe. Aren't they phasing out saturday service at a ton of areas? Anyways I'm not surprised, their USPS sort facilities are effin awful, packages routinely bounce back and forth between 2 sort facilities, and I've even had one "depart usps sort facility" only to "sorted thru usps sort facility" in the same facility 6 times over 4 days. Ive heard certain facilities are noticeably worse at this because they are outsourced by a different company that usps pays to sort mail. In your case, dropping a package off friday I pretty much EXPECT it to not move until monday morning. At least in my small town, maybe if you are in a large metro area thats not the case, but us country bumpkiins are used to that kind of service.
Its definitely true that they are starting to wait for full trucks. I know someone who had worked in a usps sort facility told me they can wait up to like 24 hours before being sent on a truck or scanned, so sometimes they just rescan and resort the packages again since they don't have a truck full yet. In that case you keep seeing "processed thru sort facility" over and over but no "depart usps sort facility". That way it doesn't look like it sat for over 24 hours, yet all they did was rescan and resort. Hey it all comes down to saving money I guess.
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