topic Safe Drop in Selling

Safe Drop

cols*shop2016 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:21:11 GMT

mmmm....wish I knew where it was safe dropped, but was not at my house..!!...!!!!

Re: Safe Drop

justkidzbiz — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:30:12 GMT

Aust Post hard at work 🤔

Re: Safe Drop

fmurphy2005 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:21:21 GMT

Is that the photo AP supplied when you queried about a missing item? Looks like it is inside a wall cavity!

They need to stand back a bit and show what it is they are taking a photo of.

Re: Safe Drop

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:10:48 GMT

I thought it looked like the inside of a fuse box

Re: Safe Drop

twyngwyn — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:15:12 GMT

I had a 'safe drop' last week - express post from interstate > Adelaide....took 1 day....and in BIG LETTERS on the satchel was 'DO NOT SAFE DROP".....go figure??

Re: Safe Drop

digital*ghost — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:11:17 GMT

@twyngwyn wrote:
I had a 'safe drop' last week - express post from interstate > Adelaide....took 1 day....and in BIG LETTERS on the satchel was 'DO NOT SAFE DROP".....go figure??

That's because Aus Post no longer return packages to a PO for collection for free (they used to give out 'do not safe drop' stickers, or allow it as a delivery instruction, but the stickers were discontinued and if it's on a parcel it will be ignored). The only way a package won't be safe dropped is when signature on delivery is paid for (and even then it's not guaranteed ).

Re: Safe Drop

twyngwyn — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:19:43 GMT

how long has that been in place? I always ask for 'do not safe drop' and this is the first time they have ignored it

Re: Safe Drop

twyngwyn — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:24:12 GMT

....another money spinner?

Re: Safe Drop

digital*ghost — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:37:30 GMT

@twyngwyn wrote:
how long has that been in place? I always ask for 'do not safe drop' and this is the first time they have ignored it

A couple of years if memory serves. One of the many downgrades in service standards while prices rose. Aus Post even lied about it at the time (the option to select "return to nearest PO if no one's home" disappeared from click & send as a delivery instruction to select and "leave in a safe place" became the only one in the list, and back when Alice (rep from Aus Post) still used to post here, she said that it was a technical glitch and they were working on bringing back. They never did (this doesn't necessarily mean that Alice herself knowingly lied, just that someone did), and Aus Post just quietly discontinued the stickers. Some sellers decided to get as many rolls as they could at the time, so would still have them, made their own or will otherwise mark a package as 'do not safe drop', but most posties have been explicitly advised to ignore it.

Some might still follow it and return packages if they can't find a safe place to leave them, or if it's convenient, or if they never got the memo to ignore it.

Re: Safe Drop

twyngwyn — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 11:29:18 GMT

OMG....thankyou, I must have missed it

Re: Safe Drop

k1ooo-slr-sales — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:07:17 GMT

@digital*ghost wrote:
@twyngwyn wrote:
I had a 'safe drop' last week - express post from interstate > Adelaide....took 1 day....and in BIG LETTERS on the satchel was 'DO NOT SAFE DROP".....go figure??
That's because Aus Post no longer return packages to a PO for collection for free (they used to give out 'do not safe drop' stickers, or allow it as a delivery instruction, but the stickers were discontinued and if it's on a parcel it will be ignored). The only way a package won't be safe dropped is when signature on delivery is paid for (and even then it's not guaranteed ).

I am glad that I have a P.O. Box