It's fun to use the tracking number to watch something come all the way across the country, then take a right turn and go somewhere else, then come back, then go somewhere else, then finally get here.
Fun if you are a masochist. Every place it stops is another opportunity for it to get dropped, thrown, smashed and bashed.
With heavy items like a locomotive, my experience is that USPS is the absolute worst at arriving un-mangled.