Just my luck, I had my I-751 approved and it showed the card was being produced on Jul 25 and sent on Jul 27th. A USCIS approval noticed arrived on Jul 31st. On the day the card was to arrive via the tracking number, I got a letter from USCIS stating that the I-751 was approved. This caused the confusion as I mistaken the tracking number that was given was for the approval notice and not the card which would be sent later on. The approval notice was also sent from Lees summit, MO so it matched with the tracking number source. On the USCIS and USPS site, it showed that that the letter was delivered to the mailbox also on the day the notice arrived(this I'm thinking was the approval notice, though I thought it was strange they had a tracking number for an approval notice). It wasn't until Aug 4th, the status was updated to mail was undeliverable and returning back to USCIS. This caused me to realized that the tracking number was actually for the greencard, and that was not in the mailbox that day even though the approval notice was delivered that same day.
Frustrating that this is happening, but I'm guessing that the letter was either delivered to a wrong address or not processed properly by the post office and returned (made more frustrating because of the 2 pieces of mail from USCIS, they delivered 1, the approval notice, and misplaced the other one, the greencard). If I had known, I may have been able to do something, but the approval notice made me think the tracking number was for it instead of the greencard. Anyways, I started a service request to resend the green card on Aug 6th, and an email said expect a response by Sept 6. I checked today, Sept 5th, and it says the request to resend the card hasn't been assigned for processing. USCIS says if they don't get a new address update by Nov 4th, they will destroy the card. I updated my address (before I had it sent to my buddy's address) just in case on August 15th to see if that would help the processing, but I haven't seen any progress.
Anybody had to deal with resending a returned greencard and how long it may take? If it approaches the destruction date, is there anything else I can do to avoid them destroying the card. I will try calling on the 7th if nothing happens tomorrow, but is there anything else I can do to help it along before it runs out of time and they destroy the greencard?
Here is a quick timeline
Jul 25 - Card being produced
Jul 27 - Card sent
Jul 31 - Received USCIS Approval notice for I-751; USPS shows letter delivered
Aug 4 - Card marked/changed as undeliverable by USPS and returned to USCIS
Aug 6 - Filed Service Request to resend card
Aug 15 - Updated Address (before it was being sent to a friend's house which I've never had an issue with before)