Thread: Australia Post - value for money?

Originally Posted by trog

Not just AP. About 10 weeks back I bought some records off the discogs site. All were to be delivered to Toronto. First from east coast took a week. Not bad for Canada post I have been told . The others were from LA and Chicago to Toronto. The LA package about 10 days. The one from Chicago, the closest of the three is still in transit , having travelled to Miami , LA , Miami again then Quito Ecuador, back to Miami , and as of Friday somewhere in Canada customs. Who knows what will happen when I put them together for posting to either Brisbane or Melbourne?

So the well traveled finally arrived . No marks or stamps to document its journey. So now to put all together and post from Canada to Aus. Let’s see how this goes. Initial quote for air , based on weight and cubic is $200. So I will opt for surface. Hopefully on Monday the journey begins again. Wonder how this will go ?

I've found that AP service has consistently decreased over the last few years, I've had more lost or delayed packages in the last couple of years than ever before. As was mentioned earlier it is nigh on impossible to access them through their website or on the phone to make a complaint re a lost parcel.
BUT I've found out a much better way to raise a problem, as I don't do Facebook I get the missus to register a complaint on their Facebook page complete with tracking numbers etc for a parcel that was just staring on its 8th Melbourne to Sydney or vice versa, within an HOUR I had a reply and the online tracking disappeared! So put up another post and the tracking came back online and I was assured that they would chase it up. The next day an AP car and person knocked on my door in a small country town an hour from the nearest major centre with the package.
So complain on social media for a quick response!

Just got a magazine delivered to my letter box,..squashed up/ "folded" to 1/4 of its size,...not happy particularly as there is a place on our letter box where it could be just as easily rolled up & placed in there.
Not really a big drama as it was just a periodical, but it may well have been a collectable,....in either case it's now in very poor shape thanks to "Mr Postie".
Pickles.

At least you get deliveries. Our relatives outside Lismore only get deliveries twice a week, if then. They had to take out a post box to get a better service.

AP are expensive and useless.

Living in Perth it not unusual to get stuff from overseas faster than from over east. DHL put AP to shame.