Well with all the problems that have been reported, one must give credit where credit is due.....
I had two parcels recently posted to me from Mexico (read that as Melbourne if you are from that area) both have arrived, albeit a little slowly.
One was conventionally address by a member here and contained a bunch of astro stuff. (thanks Raki)
The second parcel was posted by a friend who in his haste to get the parcel to me, sent it before calling me to get the complete address with only my name and suburb and no return address......... But he did have a tracking number! Now normally such a parcel would automatically be sorted as return to sender and in the absence of a RTS address, the parcel would go to an "undeliverable" state and eventually rot in a warehouse somewhere.
I called Australia Post and spoke to a very genuinely helpful 'Nathan' who was able to have the parcel continue in the sorting system and not be rerouted to the "undeliverable" state.
Eventually the parcel got to the local main sorting centre where it was given to the contractor responsible for our area. This person delivers astro stuff to me on a weekly basis and recognized the name and duly brought the parcel to me.
Thus many hundred dollars worth of fine German optical equipment got to me rather than ending up in a warehouse waiting to be auctioned off.
So there is a benefit to buying lots off stuff on a regular basis, so get over to the Classifieds and check out what is available
Yes, I know I could have said all this in 2 lines, but you probably read Lewis's 2 page thread "Bloody Australia Post" so this shouldn't bother you
