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Originally Posted by Max Vondel
You people are all so impatient!
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Yep.
I appreciate the eagerness for new toys to arrive. Solution, buy new toys every day so you are always getting deliveries and won't notice when something gets held up
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Seriously though just be patient. I shop 99% online for everything, from all over the globe. Sometimes items get held up for all sorts of mundane reasons. Never had anything go missing that cost more then $5 though and happy to buy from overseas more than local merchants, strangely stuff gets delivered quicker when from overseas instead of stuff ordered from Sydney or Melbourne. Can't just blame Australia Post, delays happen for all sorts of reasons, some dealers pack up orders and mark them off as shipped but all they did was put it in a box, printed/added the label and put it in a pile. Then at the end of the day/week they take the pile to post office or arrange single courier pickup to take all items at once. Tracking systems often rely on a person to enter data and its rarely efficient to do it for each item on the spot, often ticking off the delivery list at the end of their shift in one go. So dont stress it.
I'd only suggest to not order from a country actively engaged in war, this disrupts postal services. As do natural disasters. You can control local transport strikes or whatever that may delay delivery. ALL deliveries do attempt to be delivered even if damaged during shipping (eg truck gets in an accident, train gets derailed). hey, sh*t happens. If you're that concerned, pay extra and go buy it in person.
Don't assume the dealer or seller has ripped you off. You can usually pick the dodgy ones online to avoid buying from. So give it a few days or a week to allow for delivery to arrive (your order may pass through at least a dozen hands for even a simple "local" delivery, any/all can have a problem for any reason). a day or two delay is no cause for panic, but after a week just contact the dealer and ask if it got returned and ask if they can confirm (repeat) the delivery address for you. If they print or hand write the labels, in case the order got delivered to your neighbour instead, or maybe your local post office is holding it as they arent sure who/where to deliver to.
Ordering from overseas is safe, be patient and use common sense when deciding who to buy from. If you buy something that someone *might* consider dangerous then expect delays.
