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

    Why Australia post lost the plot and contracted local parcel deliveries to people like this.
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    Ours are never delivered either. The good news is you don't need to wait, just head right upto the post office. You see they have already left them there and filled out the collection slips before they left. If you catch them and ask for the package its not actually in there van.

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    Not in any way at all being racist. Just a fact of being new Australians is all it is. Our local Post office is manned by a Asian family, nice lot but limited English . So not only do we get the a for mentioned run around, when I get to the post office I have to then help them find my parcel because the can`t read the labels or have trouble with English names. So when we go to post parcels there is a alternative post office that we use, a bit further but a lot easier. Even have had one parcel sent back to the central depot witch is about 20 k`s away and had to pick it up from there.
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    Sadly, I can report similar woes.
    Our local delivery bloke - a few years ago - was an Irishman. - Forget the jokes, he was fantastic, nothing ever went missing, or "non-delivered"... he'd ring the doorbell and knock if he thought someone was home. Or could be trusted to hide parcels in designated places if required. Yes, we were on first-name terms... He was certainly switched on... unsurprising as he is a Sparky by trade...

    Then he left for a better job...and someone from a ...different.... part of the globe took over.

    You can guess the rest. Even a complaint about dropping parcels a couple of metres from the front door went 'nowhere'. After that I didn't bother to mention the two left on my front lawn...

    On one occasion my Wife has been sitting in the front room which overlooks the front door. We received a 'NO-ONE HOME card in our mailbox.... she watched him get out of the van and put it into the letter-box! - Thought it odd that letters were delivered by the courier company.

    The current subbie seems to be fine, - I think. He speaks understandable English and his hearing is OK as well.

    On the other hand, I ordered a pair of JM shoes late last week...and the COURIER company they use delivered it yesterday. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's FOUR transit - days from Eastern States to WA-suburbs.
    Can't complain about that at all !

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    I use the parcel lockers so this crap doesn't happen to me. The closest one is on the way home from work - I get an email and text telling me it's ready to collect. I can get it 24/7 and it's easy to park there.

    If anyone has one close, I would highly recommend signing up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DoubleChevron View Post
    Ours are never delivered either. The good news is you don't need to wait, just head right upto the post office. You see they have already left them there and filled out the collection slips before they left. If you catch them and ask for the package its not actually in there van.

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    Same thing here now. Until recently, the postie would drive up to my house if the gate was open because she knew I was home. Even if she saw me in the street on a walk, she'd either give it to me there & then or I'd sign for it & she'd pop it over the gate.
    Now someone else does it & they never carry the parcel. I've been outside & asked them as they've dropped the card off - "sorry, too busy to load the parcels today".
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    I was in the driveway fiddling with the cars when an Auspost courier in a van pulled up at my driveway and handed me a card.
    "We'll get it now." I said.
    "It's too big." he replied.
    "I'll help you carry it." I offered.

    He was not happy but we carried it up the driveway.

    I think their bosses, the ones who tender for the work, give them unachievable schedules.

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    yep, i got sick of 'missing' deliveries, so i've just started using the parcel lockers. ends up quicker and more convenient.

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    Seems to vary depending on which contractor they are using, judging from our experiences.

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    We had our postie not the one that came in a van. We where waiting on Brendon's passport. We knew it was coming that day. It was raining and our postie just dropped a card in the letter box. I went out there and as he was coming down the other side of the street, he came over and explained that he knew it was a passport and he did not what it to get wet every time he open his bag before he got to us. He told me that he left it at the post office so we went and collected it. Have no problem with them, it the one that comes in the van that has parcels


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