Why Do Postal Routes Travel Farther Than the Intended Destination During Transit?

When tracking a particular package being shipped from northern Utah, and arriving in a city in southern Utah, the tracking information returns as being processed in Austin, Texas. This makes no sense cost wise. Why take a package 1000 miles away from the ending location, and returning it back in the same direction?

Suggestion:

Because Austin is the central routing site. That's how rapid delivery systems work. They ship everything from origin through router site to destination.

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And you have just answered why the post office is inefficient! LOL If you had sent that via UPS, I can pretty much say it would never have gone to TX.

They don't care what it costs – they run in the red, via your taxes. So why should they care if it goes to TX and then back to UT? Efficiency isn't the game when the USPS is involved!

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