The Case of the Missing T-shirts

OR  Lost in Transportation
OR  _____________________(fill in the blank with a good title and comment below!)


So my super awesome sister-in-law Veronica ordered two of our super awesome T-shirts on August 24th.  (You too can order a super awesome T-shirt by clicking the T-shirt logo on the right and following the directions)

I was on my game that day and packaged her shirts and some of our cards up immediately and got to the post office on my way to pick Corban up from school.  So I sent them out the day they were ordered (actually I'm pretty good at that, unless we are back-ordered....I mean you can't beat our customer service!)

So they're on their way.  Veronica and family live just across the US/Canadian border over near Detroit.....just to give you a geographic idea of where the shirts need to go.

Also....I had shipped an identical package of two shirts to another super awesome sister-in-law Helena just across the US/Canada border near Buffalo and it arrived in around a week.  AND I regularly ship paintball parts and markers to Canada and they average about a two week time between my house and their final destination.

So when Veronica messaged me saying that she still hadn't received her shirts after 3 weeks, I thought, "that's odd."

USPS won't let you put normal "tracking" on an international package unless you pay a gazillion dollars.  But they do have a code on receipts that allows you to track your package to the border (and sometimes in friendly countries inside the final destination country as well).  So because I"m a pack rat I found the receipt and plugged in the numbers.  I expected to see that it made it to Customs and was just stuck there (which happens from time to time).  I was amazed that instead the package had done a tour of the state of NY.

I went to the local USPS office and asked about the package and was told that since I didn't get insurance there wasn't a lot they could do.  So I just watched to see if it'd make it to the border.

Well here we are a month and a couple weeks later and guess what?  Still not there.  Here's where it has been though.

Warren PA (where we live)
Jamaica NY
Bethpage NY
back to Jamaica NY
Brooklyn NY
back to Jamaica NY
Warrendale PA (which is down near Pittsburgh.....I was hoping it was getting returned to us here)
Chicago sort facility #1
Chicago sort facility #2
Chicago sort facility #3
back to Warrendale PA (again hoping it was being returned to us)
back to Chicago sort facility #1
back to Chicago sort facility #3
back to Chicago sort facility #1
and now currently resides in the Warrendale (outside Pittsburgh) facility for the 3rd time.

You would think that with modern technology they would be able to just flag the package and send it back to us.  I'm gonna go check it out this week.  At this point I don't WANT it to get to Canada.  We've already made a trip north and hand delivered two more t-shirts to them.

So where are they headed next?
Guesses?