Thread: Christmas happens the same time every year so why do people not prepare earlier

As a whole Aus post express has been reliable and got stuff suprisingly fast to remote locations, interstate places like NT or WA and customers sing praises. But SA for some reason has glitches especially when it gets loaded on to the wrong truck and ends up in QLD first.

We don't use Eparcel as this is unreliable and takes too long. My Mate bought something from Dandenong retailer ( 20 mins away) sent by eparcel and is still waiting 10 days later.

Originally Posted by ATH

Xmas does it every year, happens just when most are not expecting it. Just look at the madness in shops ..... or maybe I'm using the Cook as an example. Come to think of it I haven't bought her a pressie yet so I'd better dash off soon and get something, anything, or else.
AlanH.

Get her something from Mario, plenty of time left

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

As a whole Aus post express has been reliable and got stuff suprisingly fast to remote locations, interstate places like NT or WA and customers sing praises. But SA for some reason has glitches especially when it gets loaded on to the wrong truck and ends up in QLD first.

We don't use Eparcel as this is unreliable and takes too long. My Mate bought something from Dandenong retailer ( 20 mins away) sent by eparcel and is still waiting 10 days later.

My WA customers consistently complained that parcels from the UK & USA arrived days before anything sent from the eastern states by Australia Post. Parcels from Singapore were overnight into Brisbane.

Try these for AP letter delivery.

Norman Park P.O. to Upper Mt. Gravatt - four days

Norman Park P.O. to Ferny Hills - six days

Cannon Hill P.O. to Manly West - three days

Manly West is two suburbs away from Cannon Hill and the Tingalpa Mail Centre is right in the middle.

In all these cases I could have walked there and hand delivered in a day.

I have to say that stuff I have ordered from Rovalord comes usually next day to Avoca Beach. To me this is almost supernatural.

I ordered a couple of hitch pins on Ebay from West Gosford close to me and they arrived on Tuesday after being ordered Saturday. The your parcel has been posted message arrived today!
Generally Startrack works really well to the Central Coast and the postie delivers small items, which I think is a relatively new thing. Our postie is a champion who brings mags up to the door if they don't fit in the letterbox.

Regards PhilipA

In all these cases I could have walked there and hand delivered in a day.

Not to just those places either. I often say to their Reps something similar.

Someone is going to call my bluff one of these days when I will find, no, "I cannot walk from Sinney to Adelaide & back in two days" Head wind or Tail wind notwithstanding.

How come easter doesnt happen at the same time each year?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

How come easter doesnt happen at the same time each year?

Because it depends on the relation between the phase of the moon, the day of the week, and the equinox. Since the Lunar month does not divide evenly into the calendar year, it keeps moving round.

(The Sunday following the ecclesiastical full moon that falls on or after the northern hemisphere vernal equinox. The ecclesiastical full moon is a calculation of the full moon that assumes the calendar used is exact, which it isn't)

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Because it depends on the relation between the phase of the moon, the day of the week, and the equinox. Since the Lunar month does not divide evenly into the calendar year, it keeps moving round.

(The Sunday following the ecclesiastical full moon that falls on or after the northern hemisphere vernal equinox. The ecclesiastical full moon is a calculation of the full moon that assumes the calendar used is exact, which it isn't)

Also scientstts say that the Magnetic North is drifting toward Russia on it's way to polar reversal.