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Australia post tracking

*kazumi* — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 03:17:25 GMT

I am in Melbourne, Sunshine West is in Melbourne, so what is my parcel doing in Strathfield NSW after it was processed in Sunshine 😞

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freddie*rooster — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 03:25:56 GMT

Sorry Kazumi but it's social distancing

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cezm — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:40:48 GMT

I read somewhere, possibly AP site, that parcels have to be moved out due to reduced staff and split shifts so may be delivered from alternate locations

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domino-710 — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:42:50 GMT

LOL - but different States.

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wide-world-of-stamps — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:43:31 GMT

There are a lot of similar comments on the Australia Post facebook page.

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imastawka — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:44:09 GMT

Yeah, I also heard that the Melbourne Sorting Centres are on limited staff and can't sort the mail, so a lot of it is sent interstate for them to deal with it.

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twyngwyn — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 06:35:05 GMT

I've now blown out my 'handling' time to 10 business days because of this

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freddie*rooster — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:00:44 GMT

I bought 4 pairs of shoes *blushes* from the UK free post (not ebay)

they were at my door in 8 days. 2 pair didn't fit so a label

was emailed to attach to the return package. The same day I

posted the return package Paypal was refunded for the returned

items. How's that for service?

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bikeden — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 07:54:01 GMT

Strathfield MC is the 'Big Black Hole' for Australia Post. If your item needs to travel through there, it may as well be Mars ! When sending to western NSW, our items go around and around in circles for days before they get spat out on the other side of The Great Dividing Range...

Australia Post will be using front end loaders and dump trucks soon to move the enormous mountains of parcels.

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tazzieterror — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:35:43 GMT

A few of mine have taken equally long detours this week—as others have indicated it's likely due to Aus. Post Vic shifting some of their sorting to other centres because of COVID related staffing limitations.

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porcelain_dolls_by_me — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:58:40 GMT

Having a holiday

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djavusydney — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 10:20:40 GMT

Most likely missorted by AusPost. You can leave it for another week to see if status changed or contact them

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*tippy*toes* — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:52:16 GMT

@bikeden wrote:
Strathfield MC is the 'Big Black Hole' for Australia Post. If your item needs to travel through there, it may as well be Mars ! When sending to western NSW, our items go around and around in circles for days before they get spat out on the other side of The Great Dividing Range...

Australia Post will be using front end loaders and dump trucks soon to move the enormous mountains of parcels.

Ummm, no, the 2 worst offenders are Chullora and Sunshine West. It's nothing for parcels to ping pong between them for weeks before getting delivered. As a whole, Strathfield is pretty good most of the time, especially compared to Chullora.

Posted 2 parcels to Victoria recently. Posted on the same day. One went via Strathfield and was delivered quickly. The other is still allegedly at Chullora (according to the last tracking update last Sunday).

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heihachi_73 — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:58:17 GMT

Maybe the Australia Post contractor wanted to buy a car radio, and didn't trust Australia Post delivering it!

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♫ "Drive in and jive away"

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glenbankloel — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 22:15:32 GMT

Go onto Aust Post website and read some of the information there. Quite comprehensive and constantly being updated. They are dealing with the restrictions due to the Virus in many different ways and guessing all of their solutions will impact us all in someway. Either in the posting or the receiving of our mail.

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sandypebbles — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:45:43 GMT

Why your Australia Post parcels are making a 1500 kilometre detour

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/why-your-australia-post-parcels-are-making-a-1500-kilometre-detour-20200821-p55o4d.html?fbclid=IwAR0lHtpIRANWj499Pytu-wFYI1TPPMNDIdqUR9z9bdi4fUwsY-VCffSIRGI

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shoppingbag* — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 03:03:14 GMT

That's nothing compared to my parcel from UK that went to Germany, USA, Honolulu then came to Australia. The good part was it only took a week to arrive. The mail is crazy everywhere at the moment, this is as good as it gets at the moment.

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11dustyattic — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 08:34:45 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Yeah, I also heard that the Melbourne Sorting Centres are on limited staff and can't sort the mail, so a lot of it is sent interstate for them to deal with it.

That's my best guess, that they're redirecting bulk lots of mail to be sorted elsewhere

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davewil1964 — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 08:44:35 GMT

@11dustyattic wrote:
@imastawka wrote:
Yeah, I also heard that the Melbourne Sorting Centres are on limited staff and can't sort the mail, so a lot of it is sent interstate for them to deal with it.
That's my best guess, that they're redirecting bulk lots of mail to be sorted elsewhere

No guess required.

AP have stated that to be the case.

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silver-fox-bullion — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:41:03 GMT

best one I have had so far is a package through the same processing plant 6 times now. Can not believe it been scanned 6 times in the same location.