Thread: Australia Post Cheap Contractors BAD MOVE! RANT

Originally Posted by bacicat

Most suppliers would be happy to send their stuff by a courier if you asked them, but I'm sure they would want you to pay the extra that would cost...

Unfortunately not always the case, but I have done this. I'm quite happy to pay extra to actually have stuff delivered. Its still cheaper than having to take a couple of hours off work to go to the post office during their business hours.

Sure there are other ways to get around this, but why should it be so difficult? We too used to have a great contractor who always delivered early in the morning when people are at home and would leave things if you asked him. But now our local PO is just painful to deal with.

Cheers,
Jon

Originally Posted by jon3950

Unfortunately not always the case, but I have done this. I'm quite happy to pay extra to actually have stuff delivered. Its still cheaper than having to take a couple of hours off work to go to the post office during their business hours.

Sure there are other ways to get around this, but why should it be so difficult? We too used to have a great contractor who always delivered early in the morning when people are at home and would leave things if you asked him. But now our local PO is just painful to deal with.

Cheers,
Jon

Did you read my first post? Parcel lockers are easy, secure and you can pick up any time you like.

My parents are Aust Post contractors (own the PO licence as well) and I have to agree sometimes. They are in a rural area so can usually name their own price when tender time comes around as no-one wants rural deliveries any more.
They tendered well high (read heaps high) last time and Aust Post rejected their tender! Dad called their bluff as he suspected no-one else had actually tendered. Aust Post kept asking for tender revisions and waited until the last day before the contract expired to accept it.
M&D would not buy a PO or delivery run now though for the very reasons given above!

Ralph

Originally Posted by bacicat

I've been using the Australia Post Parcel Locker system .

there is one in adel!

thanks for the heads up, i'll sign up for this

Originally Posted by CraigE

We had the same, no card, parcel sitting at the post office for over a week. Finally they gave these people the flick and now we have a much more reliable service in general, though one driver seems to be brain dead, delivering parcel addressed for #2 to us at #1 and clearly numbered 1. The guy at #2 has taken to putting up a 900 x 600 sign #2 with and arrow to the delivery point.

Where my brother & I have our workshop where we work on our vhicles & the address no is 4/1477 & we keep geting mail delivered to our box for 4/1747 , the problem is we have a PO box at the post office & only check the letter box when the junk mail starts falling out & we always find mail for the other people. They are about 1km down the road & i am sick of taking the mail to them or to the post office so I have told booth of them if the post man is dislexic & keeps deliving there mail to us i'll throw it in the bin. We received a small part for one of there machines once , it had been in out box for 3 months.

Originally Posted by Eevo

there is one in adel!

thanks for the heads up, i'll sign up for this

Well worth it. Once you are signed up you can make it your default address in Paypal, so all your ebay crap ends up there - that's what I've done. I get 2 or 3 things a week end up in them.

We have had a P.O. Box for years now, (well worth the now exhorbent cost) which we use for important mail,the rest comes to our letter box,used to have a contracter deliver it in his van (with stubby nestled between his legs) he got done 3 times for DUI now we have regular postie on a CT110,no problems except when he goes on holidays

Well I suppose as long as the market is opting for on line purchasing to cut costs so is Aust. Post. They are a business as well , tapping into this growing market. It is up to the consumer to determine what they deem the service is worth and pay for it , with perhaps a little extra going into the pockets of those actually dong the job.