Buy local and be punished for it.

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Originally Posted by BradC

New delivery coming. Posted in Balcatta. This gets picked up and consolidated at the Malaga mail center. It then gets shipped to the package center in Welshpool, which then ships it back to Malaga to be delivered to me.

What the actual ****? I suppose I should the thankful it didn't go via NSW this time.

Edit: Nope, wrong. Instead of going to Welshpool it was mis-sorted and sent to Walliston. Now re-directed to be "forwarded to correct location", wherever that is.... Way to go Aust Post.
Next time I'll drive the 6km and pick the sodding thing up myself!

My best experience was 10+ years ago, bought a (game) flight yoke from USA. Landed on my doorstep EIGHT days later....in a standard, 1.5 cubic foot, US Postal Service Box.

- Despatched on day after PayPal credited their account.

A later one was a set (4) ARNOTTS. air-bag assemblies for Lady Sarah, '95 soft dash Classic. Two large boxes, about 2 weeks total, arrived same time/day. Arnott New Rear Air Struts Available for Failing Land Rover and Range Rover Sport Struts | Arnott Industries

Oh, my best experience was buying a brand new tow hitch for the D3 from the UK. Order placed Thursday night (our time) and it arrived on Sunday morning. Bloody big chunk of cast iron.

I purchased a complete cyl head from Turners in the UK.

I ordered it by phone Monday night, being Monday morning over there. It was in Melb on Friday and as I live in rural Vic I received it Monday.