Yes, you are correct regarding the lockers, they are only in the city. There's always the option of Parcel Collect through My Post, but still being in its infancy, there are a few issues with that. Main one being, you don't get the text message, email or notification on the AP app. Then when you go to collect it, it's absolute torture for the PO. They have to punch all this garbage into their scanner. It went something like this.
Hit exit, then exit again, then exit again, then key in the PO code, then exit, then punch in a whole heap of other numbers, hit the back button, then press escape, then exit a few more times, then scan the parcel, punch in a whole heap of other numbers, then hit exit and escape a few more times, then scan the My Post card, hit back a few times, then hit exit and escape a few more times, then scan the parcel again, punch in a heap of numbers, hit exit and escape a few more times, hit the back button a few times, scan the card again, scan the parcel again, blah, blah blah. Seriously, I stopped counting the steps after 50. I am not kidding.
During those steps they paused to curse me. I don't know who designed the program, but it's absolutely ridiculous. If you had multiple parcels to collect and went at a busy time, it could make the line extend even further. No joke again, it took nearly 20 minutes to collect one parcel. The post master begged me not to have anything sent via Parcel Collect until the system had improved.
That said, for the odd parcel that needs a residential address, I'd use it if something couldn't be delivered to my house. Only thing I would say is, be prepared for it to take awhile to collect it and do the PO a favour and go at a time that it's not normally that busy.
