How do I find sellers that do not use australia post?

Question

Hi,

I do not want to use Australia Post for non-delivery of anything ever again. The hour and a half I would need to spend collecting a parcel is costs me 3 times more than the item. Australia post never deliver parcels, only cards in your mailbox.

I recently had a good experience with fast-away couriers. Is there some way I can filter or search for sellers who do not use Australia Post? Or, are sellers generally willing to negotiate price for an alternative delivery method?

If there is no way to purchase items on ebay without using Australia Post, then I guess I will just need to buy on Amazon, who DO actually deliver your items.

Thanks and regards,

iktbay

digital*ghost · Accepted Answer

Just one other thought... If parcel lockers and PO boxes aren't a viable option, perhaps an alternative delivery address might help? That's assuming it's more a case of an individual postie not attempting to deliver for one reason or another on that particular route, but if you have a work address, friend, family or associate where deliveries can be made (on a different postie's route), it might yield a different (hopefully easier) result.

Anonymous User · Answer

It is the getting items lost that drives me nuts. The item often bouncers back and fourth from one PO to another. One item recently bouced between Brisbane and Goondiwindi 5 times before a human intervention with customer service 3 times fixed the problem. PS the actual recival address was in Brisbane. Right now I am chasing an Express item that actually arrived at my Local PO (according to tracking) only to be redirected to Gympie for some reason. They now say it may be back in 2 days (wrongly sorted apprently). Over recent contacts with customer service it appears it is the automated scanning system that is failing. It sounds correct given the bouncing back and forth, computers have no logic to figure out that it has scanned this same item 5 times, just keep sending it back.

lyndal1838 · Answer

If you are not at home to take delivery of a parcel from Australia Post then they will leave a card for you to collect it from your local post office, maybe a few kilometres away.

If you are not at home when a courier delivers a parcel they will leave a card for you to arrange another delivery time. If you cannot arrange another time you will have to collect it from the courier depot which could be 50 kilometres away from you and often has much more restricted opening times than Australia Post.

I doubt that there would be many sellers who would use a courier delivery for a one off parcel for one buyer.....there are few courier services that work that way. You normally have to have an account with a courier for delivery of most/all of your parcels.

As for having a good experience with Fastway couriers....for your one good experience of them you can probably find dozens of posts on the boards from people who do not like them at all and will not deal with sellers who use them.

I regularly get deliveries from Queensland from a seller who uses Fastway and I have never yet had a fast, fuss free delivery from that seller. I use that seller because they are the best seller for the items I want but if I was really concerned about the speed of delivery and having to arrange redelivery then I would run a mile. Even being home all day, everyday, I often still have to arrange redelivery as the courier who delivers in my area seems to be allergic to knocking on doors.