topic Re: Australia Post shop mate in Buying

Australia Post shop mate

harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:14:43 GMT

Has anyone used AP's ShopMate forwarding service for ebay purchases or to purchase from other overseas websites?

Re: Australia Post shop mate

lyndal1838 — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:39:06 GMT

Harley, it is very expensive.

It was discussed on the boards and I believe the general consensus was that there were other services that were reliable and a lot less expensive. There were also a few nasty little catches in the T & C.

Re: Australia Post shop mate

harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 05:56:13 GMT

I compared it to some others and they were a bit more expensive but not by much. You don't know of any good ones do you?

Re: Australia Post shop mate

lyndal1838 — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:40:34 GMT

Sorry no, I don't.

I am in the happy position of having family in the USA and Canada and my OH's nephew is a senior pilot with UPS....we have no difficulty arranging delivery of anything from the US or Canada.

Re: Australia Post shop mate

harley_babes_hoard — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:44:14 GMT

Lucky you !

Re: Australia Post shop mate

esayaf — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:25:36 GMT

Yeah, lucky you. I just had a parcel come from Europe with UPS. €40 most expensive parcel I've ever had from Europe and it weighed less than 500 grammes

Re: Australia Post shop mate

lyndal1838 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:52:24 GMT

That does not surprise me at all.

As long back as I can remember UPS has always had the reputation of being expensive....best part of 20 years now since I worked for a courier company that delivered lost parcels for them at out of hours rates.

And I know what they pay their pilots.