Express Overnight Delivery? My @rse!!

[sam_d]

Due to having no real plans long weekend ahead I thought I would spend some of that time installing a new UHF CB into my car.

So, on Tuesday I placed an order with a compnay which uses Australian Air Express delivery. This meant my new kit should have arrived on Wednesday.

On Wednesday I was without my new radio so I called the company. They said they had been busy and promised my order would be shipped later that day.

Same story Thursday but at least I got a consignment number to confirm the package has been sent yesterday afternoon.

This morning I have called the delivery company to see if they could give me an approximate time for the deilvery but they tell me the consignment hasn't arrived in the local Sydney depot yet so probably wouldn't be with me until next Tuesday. :mad:

Great. That is really feckin' useful. :mad:

Overnight Express Delivery? My @rse! Well, I suppose that didn't specify over which night.

I'm also more than a little annoyed that a bullbar I ordered two weeks ago (and have paid $80 delivery for) is still in Perth. It was supposedly in stock when I ordered it too...

[Grimace]

dude chill, it happens to me all the time... I remember the days when i was orderign 4wd gear every week and with out fail it would never arrive when expected.

If someone told me one week I instantly translated it into two, and even then it still came late at times.

The weekend is still available to you to go out and enjoy a good spot of fishing or relaxing at the pub ;)

Sorry I am just in a really relaxed mood today and cant help but rub in the fact that ill be out all long weekend somewhere between north and south straddie, fishing, swimming, sleeping, and drinkin beers at the Pub (tipless).

:D Luv Grimace

[sam_d]

The reason I placed the order on Tuesday was in to make sure that if it didn't arrive on Wednesday as expected there would still be Thursday or at worse Friday. But next week? That is taking the **** for 'overnight' delivery.

[discowhite]

ask for a credit for the O/N postage fee! you dont pay for a service if that service didnt happen!

cheers phil

[sam_d]

ask for a credit for the O/N postage fee! you dont pay for a service if that service didnt happen!

cheers phil

Problem is the the O/N postage was 'free'.

Just spoken to the carrying company and they were delayed by high winds last night and they are only delivering urgent medical stuff etc today.

So, the carrying compnay have a fair enough excuse but I'm still a bit miffed at the company for not dispatching the order for two days.

I'm just in a grumpy mood cos I wanted to get it all sorted over the weekend cos I'm not going to get much time to do anything over the next couple of weeks. And the weather is ***** :mad:

[solmanic]

I find things always arrive quicker when I don't really care. For example, I ordered a couple of mobile phones for our company from an on-line retailer in Sydney and they turned up the next morning. Mind you, when we discovered how good they were I ordered a third and it still hasn't arrived after two weeks.

[sam_d]

I find things always arrive quicker when I don't really care.

Yup. I have found that too. There is that saying "A watched pot never boils."

On the other hand, when I moved here from the UK all my stuff that was freighted over arrived a week ealier than I had hoped. That was still a pain though cos I hadn't moved into my unit at that point.

[langy]

Welcome to the blacklist...happens to me all the time.

[CraigE]

Should have gone FedEx, just look at their ads, they deliver anywhere anytime.:o
Bull$51t they do, if they dont lose it they overcharge.
Most overnight delivery bags have a rider on them that says overnight delivery only guaranteed from capital city to capital city. Having said that storms are not an excuse for not delivering overnight bags, general freight yes, fair enough. It is not as though its a cyclone or anything. We used to get that from the post office when they did not have a parcel deliverer and eventually went to everything pick up yourself from the post office which is crap. Why I mainly use couriers I can trust now.

[JDNSW]

Should have gone FedEx, just look at their ads, they deliver anywhere anytime.:o
Bull$51t they do, if they dont lose it they overcharge.
Most overnight delivery bags have a rider on them that says overnight delivery only guaranteed from capital city to capital city. Having said that storms are not an excuse for not delivering overnight bags, general freight yes, fair enough. It is not as though its a cyclone or anything. We used to get that from the post office when they did not have a parcel deliverer and eventually went to everything pick up yourself from the post office which is crap. Why I mainly use couriers I can trust now.

I have several times had promised delivery - each time when the courier calls up to get directions they eventually refuse to deliver! And suppliers still won't believe me when I say couriers won't deliver here. And I'm only six kilometres off a main highway, and only sixty kilometres form a major town.

John

[Landy110]

I order electrical goods every day, some urgent, most not. Guess which orders don't arrive the next day! Refer Murphy's Law!
I do use Aus Air Ex a hell of a lot and they are normally pretty good. Again, Refer Murphy's Law!

Steve.

[Michael2]

Why is it stuff ordered on ebay out of China arrives faster than stuff despatched from your own capital city? - Maybe it's got to do with time zones or a parallel postal vortex or something....

[Vern]

Why is it stuff ordered on ebay out of China arrives faster than stuff despatched from your own capital city? - Maybe it's got to do with time zones or a parallel postal vortex or something....
i've had stuff from the states or uk arrive in 3 days, i'm still waiting on a set of gen 3 exhaust manifolds from tassie, its been 5 weeks

[Iain_B]

I know how you feel, I ordered my winch tray on Thursday morning first thing from TJM, they said it was in the TJM store in Brisbane would have it first thing Friday, so I could pick it up on the way back from work. When I phoned to check if it was there, they said it would only arrive next week on Wednesday "because that's how long it takes" - the TJM factory store is about 10 minutes from where I work.

On the other hand, I ordered an EGT gauge and thermocouples from Aurberins in the USA on the 31st May, and got it on the 5th June.

Weird how something 10 minutes away will take almost a week yet something on the other side of the world takes 5 days.

[sam_d]

A further annoyance is that my parcels are now in Sydney at the depot with is probably only 5km from where I live. When I asked if I could just collect it fromthe depot they said no because they "...have to send someone to find it..."

Surely it can't be just chucked in a random pile. With all this modern tracking and all that they should know whereabouts in the depot it is.

[cartm58]

lol air freight overnight

ACCC put electronic barometers in overnight parcels for TNT, kwiskasair, IPEC etc without fail the barometer never recorded more than 3000 metres in height all were overnight trucked never saw the inside of an aeroplane.

They copped fines didnt mean they didnt stop doing it