Around here, when the USPS "goes the extra mile", it's always because the package gets sent from Pontiac to Flint, Flint to Pontiac, Pontiac to Flint, etc... until one of those facilities finally passes it over to my local Post Office. The record round trip (so far) is five times. It gets a little frustrating to watch that it takes two days from mid-Florida to Pontiac and then a couple of weeks or so from there to my house (about a 35 mile trip from either place).