A brand new Australia Post parcel black hole

[whoisbiggles]

Nice to read about a brand new Australia Post parcel black hole.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-30/parcels-crisscrossing-the-country-to-get-to-neighbouring-subu...

[davewil1964]

It's anti-discrimination at work.

It would look bad to discriminate against Queenslanders by having a sorting centre that worked, when NSW and VIC don't.

[kopenhagen5]

[tennis_bagel]

Yeah it is pathetic.

They do not even respond when you open an inquiry as to what happened to a parcel.

Will be complaining to my local Fed member so I can be ignored from a higher level.

[kopenhagen5]

Will be complaining to my local Fed member so I can be ignored from a higher level.

(At this rate I will run out of lol's)

[south.coffee]

If the 'Gubment' ever floated Australia Post I would be lining up to buy shares.  Nothing like investing in a monopoly. $ $ $ $

[davewil1964]

They're only a monopoly for letters, which they don't like delivering.

For parcels they compete with couriers; they just have a better distribution network than most.

[purplemon18]

Apparently it is practically in my back yard. Perhaps I shoud go knock on their door and ask for my lost parcel.

Looks like it is right on the Brisbane river:

https://www.ipswichfirst.com.au/australia-post-gives-look-inside-new-mega-parcel-sorting-centre-at-r...

[twyngwyn]

just had my first request.... 'no scanning activity' since 01/11....satchel Adelaide to Brisbane

[performance_parts_clearance_centre]

I've just copped a neg as a result - item sent to FNQ on the 24th of October, delivered early this afternoon.

Admittedly, the buyer in question is a plank - first eBay transaction, zero feedback. Doesn't contact me to enquire about the item, leaves a neg complaining that I didn't contact him (my crystal ball is broken, and I'm waiting on parts...), then has the cheek to open an INR case AFTER the item is showing as delivered...

I normally hassle AP every two or three months over missing / late items; I've had to open half-a-dozen cases just in the last fortnight or so. And yes, two or three were QLD destinations, but that doesn't explain the item ping-ponging between Melbourne and Sydney, and the item lost while travelling between 3073 and 3089...