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

I really do love the old Oz post argument about it being Xmas. Total FROFL!! Oh **** it's Xmas, how did that happen...
Wouldn't stress it Mario/Heather, your loyal customers get it.

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.

He does realise that Auspost Overnight Express is a 7 day delivery service doesn't he? Guaranteed.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

He does realise that Auspost Overnight Express is a 7 day delivery service doesn't he? Guaranteed.

Not if you live here... then it’s guaranteed to arrive randomly between 2 days and 3 weeks

Sometimes it can be a bit crap for sure but I have ordered 12noon on one day & rcd goods apro11:00 the next & that was AP Express Post from NSW.
Other times it seems to be years, especially when urgently waiting for essential parts. If an order comes from HK or China then it seems quite ad hoc. I try to buy as little as possible from there if I can, but sometimes there seems to be no alternative.

Tracking can be a bit of a joke where stuff records never seem to move at all, & suddenly the PO is telling you to pick it up.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Every year this happens Christmas in on the 25th, some finish earlier, so why is that people not plan their repairs in advance, why do they always wait 1 or 2 days before departing on their holidays to service or repair and prepare the vehicles for the planned trip earlier? We have an angry interstate customer where he did not receive some parts today, We processed his order immediately and it was express posted same day, guaranteed next day delivery. It didn't arrive, Aus post blames hot weather. We did everything at our end and are let down by the delivery company, so it is all our fault , sloppy service . Heat Waves, Bush fires etc etc effect things but it is always the sellers fault for things beyond our control. The Postal and Courier system is in overload this time of year.

That makes a change, it's usually blamed on the delivery driver.
I once had to deliver two trailers of plasterboard to a school refurb in Mt Isa. I got the request for a quote, mid-morning. It was immediately accepted (I should have quoted more ) and I was asked to pick it up straight away and express it t0 the Isa.
I had to prepare and set up two trailers, one dolly and a prime mover, before I could even start.
The trailers had to be loaded, secured, double tarped and ferried to Toowoomba singley, before assembling them as a road train. All done by 2am, then a short drive to Dalby for a shower and forty winks. Forty eight hours later I'm on site, to face a winging forman, for not being there at the crack of dawn the day after they gave me the job. Half a dozen plasterers had been twiddling their thumbs for a week, due to running out of board.
Logic would have dictated that they should have ordered the product 7-10 days earlier, instead of just before I first heard about the job.
One of the plasterers confided in me, that it had been ordered on that day, to gain an extra 30 days credit.
It then took them 90 days and a number of dire threats to get paid. To add insult to injury, they asked me for another quote months later.

It's a year round thing here in Newcastle being this close to Sydney. Nobody keeps any thing on the shelf in quantity and everybody expects that it can be freighted from Sydney overnight. One good disruption (there's no such thing as a good disruption but you know what I mean) on the M1 and the whole thing falls in a heap.

Doesn't need to be Christmas for a delay.

Daughter ordered some goods - small package, wrapped well, clearly marked, got it sent priority from Sydney to Tas. Tracking showed it picked up, flown to Melb, where it stayed for several days.
Meanwhile the day after her parcel was ordered, I ordered a part ex middle west of Syd, arrived here in Tas. next day. Daughter waited another four business days.

I think everyone is waiting for the pre-Christmas sales.