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Sep 14th, 2026 at 9:45am
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My Pope high wall is enjoying a scenic vacation with some sight seeing and gambling evidently. On Tuesday it left Illinois and instead of going straight to Seattle it detoured and spent a night in Denver. It finally arrived in Seattle on Saturday morning but must have been in need of some additional funds or maybe it just wanted one last wild fling before being confined to a crowded gun safe so it ended up in Reno yesterday. Probably shacking up with some bolt action I suspect.
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 10:52am
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My other rifle hasn’t figured out how to get out of Arizona. It has been in two postal facilities there. 
  
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Reply #2 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 1:48pm
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Any packages going USPS through Denver get into some sort of tornado winds and keep returning to Denver after leaving. Seems the West and SW mail systems are stuck in limbo until you file a complaint and somebody kickstarts them to get them heading to the right address.
I find it odd that USPS spends millions advertising their great services instead of using those funds to really improve their services.
Maybe your Pope is being driven around in the Popemobile so it can wave at all the fans!
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 2:08pm
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Add Seattle to that list of postal locations that have serious issues.  I have often felt like sending them a map of the Puget Sound showing them where the East Olympia post office is since they don't seem to have a clue.  Quite a few times packages are sent from Seattle to the Olympia downtown post office which is only 14 min away and they send them back to Seattle.
  
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Reply #4 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 3:40pm
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It happens on the East coast too.Mail leaving Vermont goes into what I call The New Hampshire Triangle and sometimes it's never seen again.
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 4:11pm
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When I lived at Rock Island WA, my journal was often late. One time an issue had strawberry jam on it when it finally arrived. So I got hold of the ASSRA and told them about it. I wanted them to send it in a sealed envelope. They didn't believe me, but it was true. 

I still believe someone, or someones knuckle dragger was taking my journal home and reading it before I got it. Shit happens at the post office just like everywhere else.
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Reply #6 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 4:15pm
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jack, if you like I can fetch that rifle while it's still in Reno- twenty, thirty-minute ride from here. I can't get it to ya right away Roll Eyes, but it could still be quicker than the way it seems headed. I won't let anybody disturb it much meanwhile- what caliber is that one again?
  
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Reply #7 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 4:17pm
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I will call the post office and see if it still there.  the caliber is 50 BMG one of Pope's favorite.

  
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Reply #8 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 4:38pm
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I have some ammo- I'll send along the empty cases after a while.
  
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Reply #9 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 5:09pm
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Sometimes I think the sorting machines are infected with a Pong virus! They go back and forth between two locations numerous times until somebody wins the match and the package goes back on it's route.
  
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Reply #10 - Sep 14th, 2026 at 6:09pm
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Reply #11 - Sep 15th, 2026 at 9:43am
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Sounds like the Pope just has a wanderlust.

I ordered some special material for a job recently, kind of in a hurry... the tracking was probably more than accurate as it had a few extra stampings on it.  The packaging looked like something out of the cartoons with labels from several corners of the globe, some I couldn't even identify the language, be glad his wanderings are domestic.
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Reply #12 - Sep 15th, 2026 at 10:33am
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I recently purchased an item from Lewiston Idaho. It left there and went north to Seattle then south to Nashville Tenn. Then Atlanta for a day or two then to my local UPS hub in Unadilla Ga where it sat over the weekend and I got it yesterday Monday. Stuff can literally go anywhere before it reaches you. It took 8 days from the time he mailed it till I got it. When he gave me the package the box was broken on one end I made him wait until I opened the box. It was a barreled action. I just knew the stock was probably broken. Luckily it wasn't.



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Reply #13 - Sep 15th, 2026 at 11:44am
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I have a flintlock rifle on the way from Kentucky that left the 28th of August. Has gotten stuck for almost a week twice. Supposedly being delivered today
  
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Reply #14 - Sep 15th, 2026 at 2:35pm
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My local post office said it is in Reno waiting some sort of address verification Possibly due to it being misdirected from Seattle to Reno.  She suggested that I file a missing mail claim to get it moving again so it doesn't sit on a shelf for a while.  I just filed that claim.
  
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