2 fantastic (?) Australia Post events

[LewisM]

Yes, I know these post-types are boring and numerous, and yes, I shouldn't have used that adjective, but...

First was a letter sent to QLD, registered post for a legal matter. Took precisely 37 days to go from Canberra to Brisbane. Kudos AusPost, well done chaps and chapettes :mad2:

Second was an item exported from the USA on the 15th of June (JUNE, not July). Landed in Sydney 2 days later. Aus Post tracking decided to update it today at 0618 to being in Sydney again. Maybe I'll get it the third time around the world . :earth: More kudos.

[FlashDrive]

..... you need to be an ' Aust Post Club Member ' to qualify for ' on time ' delivery :violin:

:D

[Exfso]

My water rates arrived yesterday with a pay by date tomorrow, I rang SA Water, they advised the rates were posted on 11 July, well done Aust Post another stuff-up. My mate who lives around the corner had exactly the same scenario. WTF:eyepop:

[leon]

Bugger I just sent two parcels to two different people on IIS, maybe they might get lucky and get it by November. :shrug: :lol:

Leon :thumbsup:

[LewisM]

Checked the status on my ex-USA parcel again. Apparently it entered Sydney AGAIN , 1 day after it last entered - NO JOKE!!! I wonder if Customs is playing hockey with it... I might get it by September - 2.5 months after I was supposed to get it.

[FlashDrive]

The security dogs are still ' sniffing ' your parcel ... they are unsure what to make of it ... :P ...indefinite hold up now

[Kunama]

The Australia Post motto:

"It won't happen overnight but it will happen,..... maybe"

The postie arrived on his bike yesterday with an Express Parcel for me from Adelaide,
I watched as he tried to push a 50mm thick package through a 20mm slot in my letter box, after a minute of trying he put it into his mailbag and started to ride away..... lucky for me I was out on the nature strip 10metres away and stopped him ..... lazy sod.... never even tried to get off his RRRs to go to the front door...

[Paul Haese]

I have been subject to something similar in the last few days. Precise parts sent an adapter last Friday. It apparently landed in Sydney and left on Wednesday for Adelaide. Not sure why it did not show up today but I am willing to bet the stoners that are employed by Australia's postal provider that makes snail racing appear interesting, are behind this.

And; you know tonight it is clear and won't be clear again for another week because a massive low is coming in again. :mad2: Australia Stop is making it hard to complete commissioning on the AG12.

[RB]

Hey Matt, might wanna make that mailbox 25mm and give the poor bloke half a chance next time. :lol:

The classic is when our postie bends the 'do not bend' envolopes into the letter box.

:rolleyes:

[Paul Haese]

Still waiting on my parcel. Arrived at Kingford Smith last Wednesday. Not been scanned anywhere since. I think scanning should occur everywhere. If it goes of the plane, it should be scanned into the storage facility, on toward customs scanned again. I have no idea where this thing is at present. I suspect that it is being held in customs because GST would need to be paid on it, secondly I'll bet that customs is now so swamped by the new legislation that it will be a month or more before I hear about paying the GST. In the meantime I cannot proceed any further on commissioning my scope. This once upon a time would have been in my hands by now. Well done whomever is at fault. You win the prized w....R award.

[LewisM]

My boomerang finally arrived...

[GrahamL]

See if you can get a customs referance no out of aus post by phone using its inbound tracking no Paul , with that a broker should be able to get your package on its way quickly .

[AndyG]

Good times here too... a brand new $3500 PC has been "delivered" yesterday by AP, to the university department where I work. "Signed" by a person who was apparently not even at work at the time. An AP investigation has begun, with a reply timeframe of 5 days...

Nope/10...
It's gone.

EDIT: Apparently is WAS collected by the person who signed for it. But he didn't remember... read: didn't care enough to try? As it was more than 10kg, they had nobody present who could lift it. So it sat in the corner, forgotten about. Please don't ask me to explain that one - it's beyond me too...

My rant therefore, bears no relevance to AustPost.. should I delete it now?

[Shano592]

That would be Gerry Harvey...

EDIT: @LewisM... I think the apt word here might be fantastical! OR ridonculous!

I'm getting knick-knack stuff from China inside a week or so... maybe that is where their attention is.

[rrussell1962]

Earlier today I delivered an Australia Post express package to a house in the next street and I don't work for Australia Post.

[AndyG]

I get that. My Wife and the identically numbered house on the next street look like regular pen friends... Often swapping mail.

[Paul Haese]

I had a conversation today with a person who works at AP. Apparently it can take up to 15 working days for a parcel to come from the US, to which I said Reeeeallly. I said it takes 3 days to get here and the rest is for the snails pace that AP sets as a standard. She then tried to tell me that the tracking by USPS was wrong. Apparently it has not left Miami yet, despite USPS saying that it left Los Angeles on the 30th of last month. I then asked her why the tracking has not been updated since the last entry, to which she went back to the first line. It can take 15 working days. I doubt it will make it here now and I will tell Ashley to make me a new adapter in a few days to replace the one that has been lost.

[Kunama]

Some good news stories about AusPost:

I recently posted a couple of Tak TSA120s, one to Queensland, one to Northern NSW....
Price wise Australia post came to about half of the cost of Pack&Send's Depot2Depot... even with insurance of $5K, the AusPost cost was much less than any of the couriers.
One scope departed Canberra on Tuesday and arrived in perfect condition in Queensland in less that 48hrs. I thought this was excellent !!

The second TSA120 was posted in Canberra on Monday and arrived in Northern NSW this morning, again in less that 48hrs and in perfect condition..

A great result, saving each buyer about $150 in freight/insurance ....

I did however use up a couple of kilometres of bubble wrap, the only padding that actually absorbs impacts without transmitting them to the fragile contents...

[Exfso]

That bubble wrap is good stuff, I go through big mobs when I pack my lightboxes.:D

[Paul Haese]

Still waiting for my adapter. Apparently it landed in Sydney on Monday. And; interestingly again nothing has transpired since. Neither USPS or AustPost say where it is located. It just said it was logged into a facility at 8:38pm. It did say the same on the 1st of August too, but that was USPS saying that then. I have decided that both services are equally garbage. Next time I am going to insist on some other service. I won't use either again. Only another 5 days until I can lodge an official complaint with AustPost so they will finally start an investigation. That will make it 3 weeks since shipment.

[DJT]

I find if you pay for the insurance with auspost its got more chance of getting somewhere quickly (because no one likes a claim) and in one piece. Costs Tuppence and you get a better outcome in my experience.

Lewis. Don't let me eat my words...the package is due with you tomorrow!

[Russj]

I recently sent 2 parcels to WA, both 4kgs each, AP quoted price was $116 no insurance, I ended up sending them with OfficeWorks Mailman, total price was $66 including $2000 insurance.

Over the recent months our AP parcel delivery lady has been pulling up walking up the driveway with the card already filled in fixing it to the flyscreen and taking off as quick as she could, leaving me to go to the PO to pickup the parcel myself.
After this happened several times I made an online complaint to AP, they got back to me several hours later wanting more details which I supplied, several hour later they emailed me to say the matter has been taken up with the local distribution manager, it will be interesting to see if the service improves.
I cant complain about the service on this occasion.

[Exfso]

Last Saturday I ordered some supplements from a mob in the USA, Aust Post apparently have an agreement somehow to act as their postal relay. Amazingly the articles arrived today, not bad 5 days from the USA to here. Got notification this morning from AP that my gear is at the local PO. awaiting collection.:rolleyes:

[The_bluester]

Regards insurance, a workmate of mine many years ago spent a bit of time working in an Auspost parcel center. Nothing I have seen by way of the service has surprised me since.

What he had to say was of items marked fragile etc being literally thrown from person to person with all the rest of stuff, markings of "Photos, dont bend" being taken as a an affront to grammar, and a challenge to prove the statement wrong rather than as the request it should be etc, and insured/registered items being treated with absolute pantomime sarcastic care as if it were an insult that there might be repercussions for damaging something that would actually result in some form of investigation.

I ordered some race car bits on the weekend, all were sent Monday, some came via Auspost from Melbourne (I live an hour or so out of the CBD) which I am still waiting for, the bits from Queensland came via Toll at a very reasonable cost and arrived at lunchtime yesterday (Tuesday) I know they were not sent until late morning Monday at least as I was on the phone to the supplier sorting out a back order issue at 10:00.

[DJ N]

Lunchtime Tuesday I ordered (via the website) a #56 green filter from Astro-Anarchy in Brisbane ...... I am in Adelaide.....

Got home from work Wednesday evening and an Express Post bag sitting in the letter box:eyepop: .

I actually left a message on A-A phone just to thank them for what is simply an awesome service!! The fact is, they must have posted it minutes after I ordered it!!

[Paul Haese]

Adapter finally arrived today. Just over 3 weeks since dispatch in the US. The longest one yet. Mostly is takes 10 days from Precise Parts.

[Kunama]

One has to have a sense of humour when it comes to paying for USPS Priority International Mail services..... I bought an item from USA on 5/8, it was sent on 6/8 and arrived in US Customs on 8/8....... fast forward to 24/8 and US Customs have only just released it to continue its journey to Australia Just as USPS suspends all flights of mail that has to go via Hawaii due to hurricane warning...

It is a 2" tuBlug, maybe Customs couldn't work out what it was .....

[Marke]

Same here I have an item coming USPS priority as well and it spent 2wks in US customs apparently. Then tracking shows arrived / departed Kingsford Smith a week ago and no updates since Im at just over 3wks now. In the mean time I got a focuser from the UK in 5days and package from China in 7days lol

[LewisM]

Had an item sent to my US on-forwarding company. US Customs have seized it, and claimed it is a restricted export item. I am not sure when a set of aluminium guidescope rings became a restricted export...must have thought they were guidescope rings for a laser guided bomb or something... SMH

Interestingly though, they said that the sender would not be returned the items either. I mean seriously, WTF USA?

[Kunama]

Hooray, an item posted from Los Angeles 20 days ago is still in Los Angeles but at least now it is at their international distribution centre.... I might have it for Christmas yet.... :question:

[PS19.1]

Whats happening with items from vendors under the $75000 threshold are they getting hung up on arrival or is AP collecting GST? Reading the new law it's seems very unclear or are they only targeting the big vendors?