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How many real people would that have paid for!
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Don't get me started on how useless the Australian banking system is!!!
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Fahour must have compromising photos of someone to be keeping his job and salary.
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The manager there told me that agency is one of the lucky ones - being owned by A/Post, but many of the smaller ones are privately agencys - often tacked onto a general store or news agency - and those are the places that are suffering badly. He also told me that they certainly are seeing a massive increase in parcels being sent - which more than offsets the drop in letters in the big scheme of things. But there's many problems which cause them grief financially. Just 2 of these are: 1. They "sold" a contract to a major corporation involved in freight deliveries that favours their profit margins, not A/Post. 2. The bulk of the online shopping boom now goes straight to mail centres - often being picked up by an A/P or STE struck, a basket load at a time, so the smaller local agencies don't get their cut of the postage anymore - relying on the few private parcels, and the massively declining stamp sales. The increasing profit from these mail centre parcel shipping sales seems to go straight into someone's bonus, not to supporting the suburban & regional network - and it's this network that needs money pumped into it. The smaller local agencies have had to spend more time sorting, carding, & signing out the boom in parcels - with no financial reward from the mothership. Without the parcel boom, my local would have 2 staff, not 3. I have even more reason now to buy express satchels from the local agency, as at least the hard working little guy gets a cut. |
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It's all because of the growing popularity of online shopping.
They simply can't handle the pressure. |
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Lets not get into this argument.
I have recently decided to transition from ADSL to NBN. Time taken to send a 1.5mt network cable, 6 days. I even watched the delivery guy put in the note to say delivery failed, didn't even bother to knock on the door.
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One of the reasons I have had a PO box for over 20 years. No such hassles. Just go once a week & collect them all. |
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So I put up a letter box and they start delivering my landlord's mail to my letter box. |
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My parents went overseas a couple months ago, I took care of their house and pets for them. They told me not to worry about the mail because they were having it held until they got back. (cool, one less thing to worry about).
I was having breakfast on the first morning there and noticed the postie turn up. He opened the mailbox, put a few letters in (wtf? they were supposed to be left at the post office) and then just rode away leaving the mailbox open. I still don't know why he did it. It seems like an odd thing to do. It rained all day. |
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We get the 'no one home note, please pick up' regularly. It is very rare that there isn't at least one of us here during the day. That being said and my earlier post I did get two packages from Ipswich Qld to Sydney in today at 1pm, they were posted at 10.30am yesterday. Wish it always went this smoothly.
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Try not living in a metro area, we only get mail twice a week (Tue and Fri), then if I get send a larger item, they will often ring me and say your parcel is here to be picked up, I generally reply, no I paid to have it delivered
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If it is express post and it's stuck more than likley there is an issue with it. Deceleration not signed etc. I would suggest calling Aus post
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I don't think there is a declaration signature any more. Haven't signed one in ages when sending express C4 envelopes.
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If people don't complain about crap service, then nothing'll change. |
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We had a new Foxtel IQ box sent from Sydney on the 19/11/2015. By the tracking number it made it as far as being processed through Australia Post facility at Chullora at 10:32pm 19/11/2015. It never arrived and no-one knows what happened to it.
However Foxtel could've helped themselves too by not sending their stuff in boxes that not only fully describe the contents, but with a huge picture of the item on the front. ![]() We've had a birthday card arrive torn open in clear plastic bags with a sticker on it by the Auspost exchange at Metford NSW telling us the item was found 'open'. When we went to the exchange facility at Metford where we were told it was our fault because it's illegal (which it is) to put money in a card. Weren't interested that we didn't send the card but it was still our fault. They also weren't concerned that one of their highly trained and skilled employees had illegally ripped open the envelope in the first place. Untrustworthy thieving ******. |
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Yes; and now in WA at least, we have the problem of thieves following the delivery vans to steal the parcels as they are dropped off at the door or in letter boxes. http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/po...16-glpccu.html http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/po...17-glppvz.html and http://www.coastlive.com.au/second-c...s-in-baldivis/ etc
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i think post services they are bad all round the world. i sent xmas presents from NYC to Sydney with USPS and it took 4 days. since then i have ordered some batterys from brooklyn to the upper west side of NYC on the 2/1 and they still are not here. it is only 5km away!
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Luckily for me the seller is a meticulous decent person and refunded my funds and dealt with Aust post himself. In another case I bought a lot of bolts in the US and they got lost in Hawaii (last tracking note) and were delivered 12 months later with rubber abrasion marks on the packaging so i suspect the parcel got caught in machinery along the line.
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About 8 years ago which I know may not have any bearing on today’s service, I was involved with a distribution company that did a 12 month evaluation on delivery times and the statistics for Australia Post was included in that exercise.
It won’t be surprising to some here to know we found that express post deliveries outside of the metropolitan area consistently offered a slower delivery time than the standard service. It was ditched as being unreliable. |
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I dont get how people can have so much trouble with Post. I've had 1000s of packages sent, and only ever had 1 issue (first parcel disappeared, second parcel took ages to be recieved), but i suspect that was the seller, as they were bloody useless (then decided to ban me from their store because they ****** up)
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Sounds similar to what happened to me. I bought a 1:43 scale model (the 1967 Bathurst winner) on ebay, and it never arrived. According to the tracking, Australia Post received the model, but from there the tracking status never changed. I'm guessing an Australia Post employee has a nice little model on display at their home now. The seller did the right thing by me, but they were left out of pocket thanks to Australia Post.
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The same thing has happened to me before Rapid Axe. It was pretty annoying because it meant I had to wait for the driver to return to the post office before collecting the package.
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I'm waiting on books that were ordered and despatched a month ago. I get there was down time over Christmas/New Years, but that should only have been a few days.
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On the flip side, if i had a dollar for every time someone called to complain the driver didn't even knock, i'd have a mansion! People are 'out the back' or 'in the shower' etc and blame the driver hoping they'll make a special trip back for them. (GPS tracking doesn't lie so i know where the driver was and for how long ;)) |
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I ordered a FGX XR8 in Feb last year and still hasn't arrived. I hope its not caught up in some sorting machine somewhere.
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