Thread: Australia Post Cheap Contractors BAD MOVE! RANT

Overwhelmed postie admits stashing Christmas presents at home - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


A former Australia Post contractor in Tasmania has pleaded guilty to failing to deliver scores of Christmas parcels, saying she was simply overwhelmed by the rush.

Instead of returning 47 undelivered parcels to the post office, she began stashing them in a shipping container at her Kingston home.

She then delivered them at random times, including Easter.

I can tell you they don't give a stuff about their employees and unfortunately this flows on to the customer at times. The vans are loaded to the roof with parcels picked up from post offices. This is happening more and more with their growing greed. Yours could well be on the bottom. Personally I would not send anything fragile with them. How many of you have recieved damaged items?

Another one this week. Australia Post contractor supposedly attempted delivery twice on same day (attempts are within 1 minute of each other, 826am and 827am) before marking it Return to Sender.

My wife was home at the time.

This stellar example of professional service delivery is clearly a result of the contractor deciding he cannot be arsed with delivering my package, instead deciding to mark two "attempted delivery" items (probably part of his contract) and then marking RTS so he can leave it out of his falcodore sedan.

Utterly unimpressed. I will be sure to make a formal complaint, citing the falsified delivery record (two attempts jn two minutes? ORLY?). I will not hold my breath on having said complaint achieve any form of appropriate outcome against the lazy excuse for a ... well, you get my drift.

Seeing that Australia Post is letting parcel contracts at a rate that is clearly impossible to generate income from without basically doing only the easiest few parcels, this should go all the way to the top. The CEO of Australia Post should be dragged before Parliament and roasted. Bring the ACCC into it? It's totally not acceptable that slave labour contracts be offered in any other industry, why should AP be let get away with it? Hiding behind sub contractors is shameful.

Originally Posted by ecn226

How many of you have recieved damaged items?

Got one today that was damaged - that was in a Parcel Locker, so no idea what happened to it. The most interesting thing is that the item was not fragile - only dropping a fully loaded pallet or running over it with a delivery van would have damaged it.

The supplier is sending a new one FOC and is also amazed that it was damaged. A fragile item would have no hope...

Australia post is there to make money , get use to it , if you want it to change you have to get onto 4 corners and get them to do a story on them

It's the same in all business there is always some one that will under cut you. When I was in the motor trade the brake & bearing co's would come & say what do we need to get your business . Our answer give us a bigger discount , they asked , what are you getting now , answer less 55% , than we will give you less 60% The deal was done untill the next one come along with the offer less 65% Australia post is no different.

Originally Posted by bacicat

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

No mention of parcel lockers in NT