The United States postal services (USPS) are accountable for the postal services in the United States held by the federal government. It operates under Universal Service Obligation (USO) and has a monopoly in the delivery in the United States. Using your tracking number, find the status of the delivery. USPS follows the rules and regulations that comply with the government, so the package would not be delivered if they are violated. Keep reading to know Will USPS Tracking Says Seized By Law Enforcement?
USPS Tracking says “seized by law enforcement.”
A seizure is forcibly taking the package from the sender/receiver by Government officials if the package violates government laws. If the postal inspector finds any reasonable suspicious mail that the package is linked to illegal activity, they will try contacting the sender or the recipient. If no response is received from the sender or the receiver, the package is scanned as “seized by law enforcement.” This scanned label is visible to both sender, receiver, and post personnel on the tracking page. The postal inspector receives the scanned and labeled package and decides to dispose of the container accordingly. A solid reason to do this is to avoid any criminal or illegal activity during shipment.
Tracking the package
To track your package, you should be ready with your tracking number. You can find the tracking number on the post office shipping receipt, email confirmation, shipping confirmation email received, and the bottom portion of the USPS tracking label.
Once you are ready with the tracking number, then go to the official website, “usps.com,” and then enter the tracking details in the search bar, which will display the package status. ‘9400 1000 0000 0000 0000 00′ is the sample tracking number, if you find any number in this format in the files as mentioned earlier then it could be the tracking number of the package.
Suspicion on the package
If the postal employee finds suspicious mail, the package will be kept aside, secured, and then informed to the management, which then contacts the postal inspection service to gain more information. The postal inspector should record the suspicious package and enter the details of the post into a tracking system’s database.
Once the package is scanned and labeled as seized, the package will again be checked by a drug dog. If the dog alerts for the presence of drugs, a warrant will be issued. The mail would be suspicious if the return address didn’t match with an item containing the postmark, if there is an enormous amount of postage, if the package is leaking a powdery substance, unusual weight, if it is marked as confidential/personal to maintain privacy, etc. However, First class packages have protection under search and seizure. First-class packages cannot be opened unless there is a search warrant.
If the package gets seized, the U.S customs officer forwards the file to the Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures Office (FP&F), which is going to decide whether or not to release the package.
How to find out if the package is lost?
Firstly, if the package has an option to track, track the status of your package using the tracking number. Now fill up the Help request form. And then submit a missing mail search request.
Are all the packages X-rayed?
Few packages will go through X-rays. There are no specific guidelines if a package is supposed to be X-rayed. Usually, the packages that go larger distances will be X-rayed.
Can the USPS delivery be speeded up?
Once the package is labeled as First class, Priority mail, and ground parcels, they will all be shipped in different transportation systems, which may differ in the mode of transportation as well. There will be sortation done in different places, at the main source of post office different classes of packages go in different containers. Therefore the delivery cannot be speeded up if the package is already categorized into different classes.
Can you stop a package in transit ups?
UPS delivery intercept gives us a chance to interrupt our package delivery before the delivery using our automated UPS shipping or tacking system. This helps us to either return, redirect, or to hold your package. It is very convenient to use
Conclusion
United states postal services are one of the most convenient methods to deliver your goods from one place to another. Each delivery has a unique tracking number that is generated by the postal services. The tracking number of our order can be found in many places such as email, on the delivery, receipt, etc. This unique tracking number helps us to estimate the delivery date and also the status of our delivery. If our package is found to be suspicious( violating the rules), then the package will undergo many tests and might also be opened by the authorities if they have a search warrant. The details of our package will then be updated in the tracking database and also sent to both the sender and the receiver.
