topic Re: Aus Post Inbox & Outbox in Selling

Aus Post Inbox & Outbox

arnl7178 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:36:31 GMT

I wish Aus Post would pick up parcels and letters as well as deliver them.

Two letter boxes out the front, an inbox and an outbox would be *FABULOUS*.

That way, I can avoid this horrible hot weather! LOL

Don't they have that in the US?

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mcbautoparts — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:39:57 GMT

hehe. I got a red letter box at the end of my street, next to a milk bar. So I kill two birds with one stone. Post my parcels AND get a yummy ice cream.

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bright-byte — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:41:38 GMT

Yes the US has a lot of things we don't not all of them good though 🙂

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xena-and-alex — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:44:57 GMT

I think Priority Mail is collected from US sellers however it's expensive for buyers.

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putney32 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:25:51 GMT

yes that have that in rural usa, another reason the US post office is almost bankrupt. in fact this month they have discontinued Saturday mail deliveries (something australia discontinued in about 1960).

US post office is in real trouble, cant afford to emply new staff, cant afford to pay dues to existing employees, a very very sad situation.

be thankful for what we have.

oh, and for a fee, and if you have enough mail, you can get Aust Post to collect from your business!!!

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arnl7178 — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:07:15 GMT

That's interesting putney! Although I'm hardly surprised. The US is in all sorts of trouble all over the place.

I'd love to have those two mail boxes though ... but I'd also love to own my own island too! 🙂

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phorum_junkie* — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:23:10 GMT

And how do you suppose you are going to prove lodgement if you have your own OUT box?

Also how do you expect the poor postie to stay on his bike if he collects a lot of items from the first few houses and adds them to his already full mail bags?

He would also have to call at every house not just the ones that he had deliveries for.

At the very least it would probably take twice as long for the round and he would probably have to go back to base several times more than on a delivery only round.

Sorry for the inconvenience but I am afraid you will not get my support on this one, postage is costly enough without having to have it doubled to cover the increased costs involved with your Utopian dream :^O

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leader-of-the-band — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:08:05 GMT

And how do you suppose you are going to prove lodgement if you have your own OUT box?

. . . .

not to mention the possibility of theft before the Postie gets there!

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thesoulyearns — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:22:29 GMT

You could try setting up a P.O. Box number at your local Post Office. I'm not sure how they work to offer any information but it could be a way to go.

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i-once-was-bump — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:02:06 GMT

Posties used to take letters for posting, when did Aus Post cut out this service?

Or maybe it died out as all the old widows died out in this area

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thecatspjs — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:18:37 GMT

As I live in an inner metro area with my local PO 25m down the street, I don't require such a service - BUT it certainly makes sense for regional and rural areas and the additional work would improve national productivity generally and it might create some jobs in the process too

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putney32 — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:45:34 GMT

As I live in an inner metro area with my local PO 25m down the street, I don't require such a service - BUT it certainly makes sense for regional and rural areas and the additional work would improve national productivity generally and it might create some jobs in the process too

to say nothing of DOUBLING our postal charges,

as I too live only a very short distance to a PO I do not want to subsidise regional and rural AP customers any more than I do already, thank you.

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k1ooo-slr-sales — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:57:26 GMT

to say nothing of DOUBLING our postal charges,

as I too live only a very short distance to a PO I do not want to subsidise regional and rural AP customers any more than I do already, thank you.

Yep, would definitely lead to higher prices for all.

Imagine the poor country postie who may travel 200km on his/her rounds each day as residences may be 5km apart in places. Imagine having to lug around parcels and letters that they have to pick up along the way. I think service would drop, not improve.

I do live in a regional area. I don't have streetside delivery of mail, and I don't have a letterbox. That aside, why shouldn't my city cousins subsidise me for choosing to live in the country? 😉 :^O

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***super_nova*** — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:16:08 GMT

Yep, would definitely lead to higher prices for all.

Imagine the poor country postie who may travel 200km on his/her rounds each day as residences may be 5km apart in places. Imagine having to lug around parcels and letters that they have to pick up along the way. I think service would drop, not improve.

..... and imagine that as you leave all you eBay sold parcels in your "OUT" box situated by the road km from your house and somebody else but the postie would collect them. Definitely bad idea, which ever way you look at it.

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leader-of-the-band — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:10:50 GMT

..... and imagine that as you leave all you eBay sold parcels in your "OUT" box situated by the road km from your house and somebody else but the postie would collect them. Definitely bad idea, which ever way you look at it.

imagine a PayPal clause that would say something like:

Parcels left in the outbox at your residence for collection by the Postal Service are not covered by PayPal's Seller Protection.

and then sellers coming to the boards saying "But I took a photo of it in my outbox to prove posting" :^O

Still a bad idea for posting of eBay items.

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arnl7178 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:02:20 GMT

I wasn't serious guys.

I was just feeling lazy that particular day because it was so hot, and I had parcels to deliver and wished the postie would pick them up for me lol.

haha Phorum Junkie. I can imagine this poor postie traveling along, all lop-sided from all these eBay parcels he's picking up along the way.

I also wouldn't way to pay extra for the service, or especially charge buyers more because I didn't get off my butt and post them myself. I was just simply saying how wonderful it would be to have that service, with no extra charge, for the lazy bones like me. (I'm not rural either btw).

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zanadoo_56 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:02:00 GMT

I hate the long queues at my post office. In the good old days the post office was in the local general store. I'd come home from work, there would be a card to collect a parcel and I could just get back into the car and drive to the shop to get it - at all hours. If the shop was still open at 10pm the post office would be too. Brilliant.

Unfortunately we now have a 'proper post office' in a shopping mall with all that it entails - limited opening hours during the week, difficulty finding a parking space, not open Saturday afternoons, no Sunday service at all, long queues...and not surprising on occasions, some very surly staff.....

It was the worst thing ever closing down the sub agency. What a price we paid for 'progress'. Sigh.

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thecatspjs — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:34:48 GMT

to all the naysayers 😛 😛 😛

Australia Post already collect millions of parcels from premises for an additional charge on a user pays basis - if mail is already being delivered it makes sense that it could be collected too.