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Australia Post's inconsistency.

cq_tech — Fri, 01 May 2015 14:36:04 GMT

I live in Brisbane and received an order from WA on Wednesday the 29th of April, posted it via large letter the very same day, and it was delivered on Friday, May 1, just 48 hours later. Why can't AP's service be this quick and reliable all the time?

Only 2 weeks earlier, I sent the very same item to another WA buyer and it took 9 days to arrive, so why the huge difference?

Re: Australia Post's inconsistency.

justajunk — Fri, 01 May 2015 14:40:23 GMT

Not sure what's up with the consistency either, however, as someone who posts items from metro WA, I can confirm that letters usually only take 2 or 3 business days to reach metro interstate locations. Of course, all that's going to go haywire once Australia Post stop delivering five days a week...

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cq_tech — Fri, 01 May 2015 16:16:31 GMT

It's my experience that most items (parcels & letters) posted from Brisbane take between 5 & 6 business days to arrive in WA. For example, if I post on a Monday, it generally doesn't arrive in WA until Monday or Tuesday of the following week.

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harley_babes_hoard — Fri, 01 May 2015 20:27:10 GMT

my experience is different again. I received letters very quickly mostly about 3 days however parcels are a nightmare sometimes taking 2 weeks. I guess it's whether it goes by plane or camel.

Had enough water fall CQ?

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cq_tech — Fri, 01 May 2015 22:59:35 GMT

More than enough, thanks harley babe. Brisbane had 182.6mm (7.5") up until midnight last night. 😞

Pity the poor sods up on the Sunshine Coast though... they copped 295mm (almost 12") during the same period!

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misterforgetfulsbooks — Sat, 02 May 2015 00:32:16 GMT

does that mean the stuff we sent as a letter will be water damaged if we didn't put raincaots on our stock?

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clarry100 — Sat, 02 May 2015 01:34:53 GMT

Caboolture (where we are) got 330mm yesterday from 9am to 6pm.

Our street was ankle deep at the centre white line and over my knees at the kerbs.

Came half way up onto our driveway so we were a bit worried that it might keep on raining today too.

But it has gone and is a bright sunny day here today.

Unfortunately 5 people have drowned in cars locally yesterday including on 8-yo child and two adults less than a mile from our place.

It was pretty disastrous.

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cq_tech — Sat, 02 May 2015 01:44:31 GMT

While I really sympathise with the families of those who lost their lives, I have to wonder what the hell they thought they were doing out on the roads in such appallingly dangerous conditions. And for someone to have taken an 8yo child with them was absolute insanity IMO.

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clarry100 — Sat, 02 May 2015 02:35:38 GMT

Where the ones with the child lost their lives was near to the big school here Australia Christian College.

So I'm betting they went to pick up from school then made an error of judgement coming home and drove into fast flowing water and couldn't escape. Gone unfortunately.

We even had one crazy woman driver here went headlong into the knee-deep water in our street yesterday. I happened to be out the front at the time surveying the scene. She hit the water at a good 60K's then aquaplaned and lost control and ended up on the footpath almost hitting the fence across our street. The water went right over the top of her car so she would not have been able to see anything.

Then she drove on down the footpath for about 30-metres or so until she could get back onto the road and then raced off at the same speed sending waves everywhere. Just a whacko!

This is the kind of mentality that gets people killed in floodwater.

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elusiveeditions — Sat, 02 May 2015 03:24:28 GMT

clarry that's... just amazing. What on earth can she have been thinking? Way to make a bad situation much worse.

Makes me feel somewhat sorry for the emergency workers risking themselves to save the hapless. As if they don't have enough to do.

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transport-posters — Sat, 02 May 2015 12:51:32 GMT

Regarding inconsistency with inbound WA mail times, I sent out some invites from Melbourne to a birthday party once. One person in Rockingham got it within 36 hours later and another person in Perth got it almost a week later. It also took two weeks to get a birthday present to a family member in WA, missing their birthday by almost a week.

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padi*0409 — Sat, 02 May 2015 15:34:48 GMT

I sent a parcel from Perth on tuesday to go to Sydney and it arrived in Chullora on friday (I know, it's likely to go to FNQ before being delivered a few suburbs away from Chullora........sigh), but 2 weeks isn't unusual from eastern states to here in WA.

They don't call it "Waitawhile" state for nothing.............................

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cq_tech — Sat, 02 May 2015 17:39:24 GMT

Padi, the 2 lots of stuff I've sent you over the past couple of months both took in excess of a week each time, if I remember correctly. Given the minimal price difference, next time I think I'll use Express Post and score a free satchel if it doesn't turn up the next day (which I very much doubt).

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cherry*135 — Mon, 04 May 2015 09:27:59 GMT

1. Large letter from NSW to VIC - collected from local PO 5pm, all post goes 2+ hrs north to Sydney to be sorted, buyer receives it Friday. morn. Good service.

2. Large letter to NSW to ViC- never received at all.. buyer given a refund after waiting a month (they wanted to wait that long). No service, item lost.

I have had two large letters lost in the post this year. None before, ever, in 10+ years (not a high volume seller).

The items were not valuable, steal worthy... what happens to these 'lost' items?? Return address on envelopes.

I sent a parcel to family recently, in a 3kg satchel, so at least that had tracking. For $1.50 more I got extra cover for $70. I thought that was worth it for the cost.

Sad about people drowning in the recent floods. Some people are caught in 'flash flooding' which appears too quickly to get away from.

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my7733garden — Mon, 04 May 2015 09:50:47 GMT

It's getting worse. I live in Vic. When i used to send a letter to my mum (in another part of Vic), it used to take 3days, now its 7 days. Imagine how much worse it will be when they nolonger deliver every day. it will take weeks.

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designers*n*more — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:27:17 GMT

I sent 2 parcels from Port Macquarie, NSW. One was going to Chullora, NSW and the other to Wetherill Park, NSW. Both posted at 5pm on Thursday. The one to Wetherill Park arrived the following Monday (so pretty much next business day as the parcels wouldn't have been collected until the Friday). The parcel going to Chullora, NSW did not arrive for 9 business days and yet both parcels passed through, wait for it, the Chullora sorting facility! When I queried why it took so long AP said they have 10 days to deliver it No explanation as to why it sat in the sorting centre of Chullora, the same suburb that the parcel was going to!

Australia Post's service is becoming extremely unreliable. The estimates are bs. Sent more parcels last week due to arrive Thurs, only arrived today. What sucks is that despite sending parcels within 1-2 days of receiving payments, I still get asked down for "postage times" which is unfair.

I'd love to see A new company take on Aust Post and provide the service that we expect. They did it with gas, electricity, so hopefully the same will happen with our post system. Not holding my breath though!