After Hurricane Milton, when will your packages arrive again?

Neighbors across Tampa Bay are citing package delivery delays due to Hurricane Milton. Delivery companies say their service is on track — conditions permitting.

Plus, Milton is the third unprecedented issue in a matter of weeks: two major hurricanes with a short-lived dockworkers port strike in between.

“There were about two, three days of port closures that were observed, which did end up in a little bit of queuing of the goods that are coming in,” said Seçkin Özkul, assistant professor and director of the University of South Florida’s Supply Chain Innovation Lab.

So where are your packages? And when can you expect them at your door?

It depends.

Your packages could be anywhere: sitting on a ship, waiting to be picked up by a truck, idling in a warehouse or loaded onto a truck and waiting to be sent out, Özkul said.

Delivery companies work with local governments and adhere to safety precautions, including road closures and curfews.

“It’s up to the companies to make the call to deliver where and when, unless, of course, it is illegal to do so in a certain area where the government says, ‘Do not come here until we say so,’” Özkul said.

DHL resumed operations in Tampa Bay on Saturday, according to a spokesperson.

UPS, too, says it is “operating normally” and providing pickup and delivery services as conditions permit.

With FedEx, “delays and disruptions are still possible,” and the company has “implemented contingency plans to minimize service impacts where possible,” a spokesperson wrote in an email to the Tampa Bay Times. If you have questions about your shipments, visit FedEx.com.

The U.S. Postal Service says processing, transportation and delivery have been impacted by the storm, according to its website. Customers are asked to allow for additional time for deliveries. See a list of closed and temporary post office locations here.

And those beloved Amazon packages. The hurricane prompted the company to temporarily close some of its facilities, causing impacts to customers in the region. Customers can see updated delivery times on their accounts, according to a spokesperson.

You may get your packages all at once.

Germalis Rosario, who lives in Tampa, said she got her packages all at once on Wednesday. She even forgot she ordered a few of the items until they arrived, saying it “felt like Christmas again.”

Other neighbors, however, still have no deliveries.

One Tampa local is waiting on her diabetic test kit. Another, his cat’s diabetes supplies.

Tom Leber, a resident in Old Seminole Heights, said his street is impassable. “No deliveries, no trash pick up,” Leber wrote on a Nextdoor post. “I couldn’t see how they could get an ambulance nor firetruck to our houses.”

If you’re able to afford patience with your packages, take it, Özkul said, and seek alternatives on the items that can’t wait.

The heavy, double hurricane impacts with a strike in between are an anomaly for delivery companies, “but thankfully, we are looking to get back to some normalcy by now,” he said.