Thread: Australia Post Cheap Contractors BAD MOVE! RANT

Originally Posted by jon3950

Same problem. Its been happening for a few years here. I now refuse to deal with anyone who uses Auspost to deliver parcels and have told a number of suppliers that I will not buy from them again until they start using couriers instead.

Cheers,
Jon

Couriers are a joke too. They generally don't like delivering to private addresses due to none being home so , Some will only seliver to a business address. Some businesses are ok with that, but it depends on the employees position, if on the factory floor then the bosses frown on that.

A courier for us would delay all out deliveries. for a start Couriers won't drive the extra 2 kms up to our place, it has to do the long route.
I ordered a part for a falcon from Coburg, Aus post will deliver overnight.
I week for a courier even though we are in the Metro area, they woundn't drive the extra 2 kms as couriers class us a country. So the courier company passes it on the Vic Country Frieght who take it to there Depot, then Vic Country passes it on to the local hills courier, and 1 WEEK LATER WE RECEIVE THE PART THAT'S ONLY COMING FROM ONE SIDE OF MELBOURNE TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Aus post , I can get Melb to Perth 1 day, Darwin 1 day or 2.
Oh and some of the courier drivers are definately not the sharpest tool in the shed. And some don't speak english very well either so hard to understand and have trouble with street numbers.
"It's Swift and Swift" Couriers in reality

I've had to reassure some ebay sellers that my local AP contractor is still a good one, this is obviously a rapidly growing problem. Will this lead to the sell off of Aust Post to the Indians? Then watch delivery standards sink even further. Bombay post office here we come. You want that delivered? Hahahaha!

I had an Indian driver in a courier van beep his horn from the top of my drive the other day (I work from home), wouldn't even roll his window down or step outside. You thought our young men were lazy....

I think the Indians own all the Aust Post agencies here in Brisbane now , yhere are 3 post offices around my area owned by Indians & yes all the couriers seam to be Indian also

Get the Chinese postman they are not discriminating to were you are

Originally Posted by jon3950

Yeah I did and they look like a good idea - even have some at my local PO. Unfortunately though they don't accept alcohol and most of my problems have been with wine deliveries.
Cheers,
Jon

Yeah, wine is a funny one - I get wine delivered to the parcel lockers, but they don't put them in there - they call me and I pick them up from behind the counter, so that doesn't really help you at all...

All the best with that - nothing worse than a wine delivery being stuffed up...

Actually bob this is one thing the union should have got involved with. Over a 3 year period a set run would have x number of deliveries a week taking Y hours to deliver, now if the tender is for below the minimum wage + fuel and running costs of a SAFE roadworthy van then it should be declared illegal. Problem is in reality each case would have to be run separately to determine the hours, number of deliveries per week/year/month and time taken for each one. From this you could determine a base cost per delivery across an area and increase or reduce the tender price minimum as the postage habits of that area change.
As someone else said the suburban van could deliver up a dozen boxes+ per hour whereas the rural van could be pushing it to do 2

I send and receive lots of business parcels. I am reasonably happy with Australia Post other than the now outrageous price of parcel post. I do note that one rarely sees the same parcel deliverer twice running.

No Indians in this area. Kiwis and Chinese are the contractors around my place.

A friend who has had transport businesses for 20+ years and is one of the few operators I know who can tell you his operating cost to fractions of a cent per tonne/kilometre, decided he needed more work and tendered for a few Aust Post suburban parcel deliveries. He attended the tender opening and was stunned by the low prices tendered. "They can't do it for that without going broke" he said to me.

I knew a senior manager at the main parcel post office and quizzed him. He said AP won't pay enough for the contractor to make a living off AP work but the contractor needs to have other work as well.

Hey
I got my paper dealership outboard manual from Cairns Today after waiting over a week
And who delivered it?
A total stranger walked up to me in the local shopping strip and asked if I knew a particular person, I said certainly do it's my wife.
He then handed me a postal card that he received in his letter box, now he is blocks away from me. But the Indian Swift and Shift contract couriers carded his pace and wrote DOG in the card. We don't have a dog and how can it be delivered elsewhere? It a lucky dip.
I went to the post office and complained to the Chinese operator there, and it was ah so, but
i don't think he understood I was peeved. He said to complain to Aus post.
I already have a lost parcel complaint being investigated and it's over the time frame they promise, no word either.