Australian Postage

[grog]

I bought a golf club from Texas. In 4 days it travelled the 13500ks, cleared by customs in Sydney. Tomorrow is 14 days to travel 1000 ks from Sydney. Still waiting. Cant expect too much i guess.

[Hooli]

Is your post still sent via migrating Drop Bears?

[grog]

Think so Hooli. Then last few weeks, 2 parcels from Sydney, both 5 days. WTF.

[froudy]

I sent out a wheel spacer to someone in Lara, Aus.
After three months in limbo somewhere it was delivered back to me. God knows where it was during that three month period. The guy I was sending it to blamed it on the Aus postal service, but I'm not convinced that it even left the UK. Cost me £5 in postage too

[1AW022]

I ordered 4 things on same day last week
1 from China .. arrived already
One from QLD ... arrived today
The 2 from Melb and Sydney... still to see

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Ordered stuff from the UK, about 4-5 days via DHL.

Within 'straayliya seems to take longer than a wet week

[Kiwifruit]

I've seen your Border Security TV programs I think they stash your parcels till they have enough to make a show. You know the one where they try to import a suitcase of cigs, flower pots made from meth, birds nests, rotting fish and chilly flavored frogs feet. Your parcels are saved to put in amongst them to give the sniffer dogs a rest.

[gsxbarmy]

In the past when I've sent stuff to you guys down under, it's always been interesting watching the tracking, all good from the UK to either (say) Sydney or Melbourne then tracking and delivery seems to go into a black hole and take forever.

[DP1400]

One thing i can never moan about is our UK postal service whilst letters & parcels are in the hands of Royal Mail . Everything tends to go `tits up` when couriers get involved with parcels and packages. Broken items and `no-shows` are regular occurences. `UK Mail` & `DHL` are the worst culprits by far.......and of course, trying to contact either of them via telephone to talk with a real person is virtually impossible

[Eric GSX1400K3]

One thing i can never moan about is our UK postal service whilst letters & parcels are in the hands of Royal Mail . Everything tends to go `tits up` when couriers get involved with parcels and packages. Broken items and `no-shows` are regular occurences. `UK Mail` & `DHL` are the worst culprits by far.......and of course, trying to contact either of them via telephone to talk with a real person is virtually impossible

Ordered parts for my land rover from a UK supplier I usually use on Monday 25th, they arrived yesterday 29th. Freight via DHL has been fast, trackable and reliable so far.  It does add cost, but overall still cheaper than getting parts from the stealers as they add their own 100% mark-up.  Have no issues with DHL.

In the meantime, ordered parts for my daughters car from the Oz East coast 2 weeks ago, still waiting....

[KiwiCol]

Maybe they're doing the big lap to get to her Eric, with copious stops along the route.

[VladTepes]

Same story here. Ordered some LR parts from the UK - large parcel. Arrived in a week.

Ordered something from Sydney - letter size padded envelope - nearly 3 weeks...

[grog]

My golf club arrived. 4 days Texas to Sydney. 19 days from Sydney. Snapey posted me laminate of fault codes for 14 👍Took a month from Sydney.Said b4, two other parcels were 5 days from NSW. Hit and Miss.

[Kiwifruit]

Hope your new golf club is not hit & miss 

[DP1400]

Oh, I forgot to mention DPD earlier - they are the ones who deliver broken stuff, then spend the next 3 weeks denying it If they can`t be bothered to deliver the package at all, they just card the door with a `tried to deliver today but nobody was home` card. I honestly witnessed this happen - the bloke was in his van and speeding away in the time it took me to get to the front door - 5 secs! Trouble is, in the UK these drivers are expected to deliver 120-140 `drops` per day which leaves them little time to find addresses correctly or have a courteous manner at the door. If like me, you happen to live down a private driveway accessing only three properties you`re off the radar and as a consequence, well and truly stuffed!
Strange how Royal Mail, Amazon & grocery delivery drivers always find us though......