Thread: Australia post parcel deliveries- another example of what we already know

We get a lot of deliveries for my wife's business (recently it's been a few boxes a day). The most helpful couriers are Asians. The Toll bloke is great. Brings a pile of boxes down the drive on his trolley, jokes as he leaves it on the patio. He knows we never bother with 'signature required' (since we're often out and live in a secure area), so he laughs and says 'ah, no need to sign, ok, I know.' The DHL guy is Indian (I think), similarly helpful.

The only driver we've had any trouble with recently was an Aussie bloke who grumbled about us being hard to find, 'you should have your sign higher up.'

We dont have a letterbox,no delivery,compoulsry po box.
Works well.No ****bags stealing mail.If the austpost delivery is large it goes to the rural supplies depot next door to the post office.
OH I miss living in the ****ty.
Andrew

We don't have any problem at all.

In fact I can only praise the service.

2 sons and a daughter use ebay etc a lot and my wifes professional literature and the courier drops off , knocks on the door or rings the bell....pats the dog, has a convo, it's great.

the service has actually improved in the last couple of years.

Chinese Lady delivering to our house does well. 7.30 ish on the button and I see her all over the place working hard.

No problems here with Oz post. Mail main is even better. Renovation at my place so I have moved next door renting. The Regular Postie noticed and puts my mail in the rented place for me. When he has a day off it goes to the mostly demolished house.

Yep, I purchase goods reasonably often through the internet and in the past I have had the old "nobody home" card slipped in the mailbox, when there was somebody home. I think they gave that contractor the boot because everything is delivered now.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

We dont have a letterbox,no delivery,compoulsry po box.
Works well.

Except that a surprising number of companies will not post/ship to a PO box. I know this because we have one. I had one woman claim that that Auspost won't accept parcels going to PO boxes. I told her that we've had a PO box for 45 years and it's never been a problem.

Stopped using the postal delivery service here ages ago.

I do not provide anyone who is using Australia Post as the means of delivery with our street address - I give them out PO Box address only, and collect all mail from the post office.

I have found the Post Office's delivery contractors to be worse than useless.

Will only provide street address if items are to be delivered by a courier company.

Last Thursday, I ordered a data connection cable and licence for VW scanning software from a supplier in the US. Order was placed and paid for Thursday evening, and shipped via FedEx on Friday - parcel was collected from the Post Office in Kalgoorlie on Monday morning. Great service at least if you are getting stuff from overseas - pity the can't be said of deliveries from Australian locations.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

We don't have any problem at all.

In fact I can only praise the service.

2 sons and a daughter use ebay etc a lot and my wifes professional literature and the courier drops off , knocks on the door or rings the bell....pats the dog, has a convo, it's great.

the service has actually improved in the last couple of years.

Our current one is fine. Make a point of being 'Nice' to them, chat a little bit, engage in appropriate harmless banter, be appreciative etc. Seems to be working !

Last one was terrified of our dog... always locked up behind security door... Wife was in front room one day... he walked up drive/carport up to the door... the Hound barked.... and he only took 3 steps for 15 metres back into the van.
Wife laughed so hard that she nearly.... (her description!)
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We didn't mind the 'No-one home' card that time !!!