Pay $150 a year to a PO BOX at Australia Post Office and sellers wont post to a secure PO BOX ? JOKE

Leaving a parcel in a open letter box at a block of flats its just stupid.

 

The Courier companies and service I have now found in Australia to be a joke and unreliable. I am no way going to not goto work , waiting for a courier to then NOT turn up as sheduled. they are unreliable and it does not work.

 

I now pay for a PO BOX at a actual AUSTRALIA POST OFFICE and most sellers in Australia now say NO PO BOX ? are you totally stupid. 

 

So now I spend time looking for sellers who send to the PO BOX or I simply have to goto Hong Kong and wait extra week or two because the sellers here... well done.

 

I HAVE A PO BOX - I PAY $$ FOR IT.

 

EBAY should have a LISTING FILTER option now that has DELIVER to POBOX ONLY as it will stop me wasting my time

 

Rob

 

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@davewil1964 wrote:

@ytwo000 wrote:

@kopenhagen5 wrote:

When I got a PO box it was $25.

It very quickly climbed and seems to be going up every year, now it's $110 for a small normal box.


when i got a commodore it was $5,000..

 

It very quickly climbed and seems to be going up every year, now it's $40,000 plus .

 


Actually it isn't. You can't buy a new one any more.


And aren't the bogans broken-hearted about that - what p.o.s ten-year old car will they be able to put their Chev badges on now? Terribly inconsiderate of Holden...

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When you have a parcel locker or PO Box, you can ignore the seller and send it anyway. I’ve never had an issue so far. Just means it doesn’t appear in the box and I have to go during trading hours to collect.
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You cannot just ignore what a seller puts as their postage method.   If they say they do not post to a parcl locker or a PO Box then they will not post even if it is your preferred method.

It is very silly advice to tell members to ignore what a seller says.

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@Anonymous wrote:
When you have a parcel locker or PO Box, you can ignore the seller and send it anyway. I’ve never had an issue so far. Just means it doesn’t appear in the box and I have to go during trading hours to collect.

When you have a buyer who ignores your T&Cs, you can ignore the buyer and just cancel the transaction. 

 

I've never had an issue so far. 

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A big part of the problem here is often not knowning how big the physical dimensions of the packaged item are.  Sellers (especially overseas sellers) often also send stuff without retail packaging which consequently does fit into a letter box.  As such it is often hard to tell as a buyer whether to choose the home address letter box or the parcel locker.

 

My experience with AusPost has been good in terms of being notified of an item for collection that "wasn't suitable for a parcel locker".

  

I do find it annoying that PO Boxes and Parcel Lockers are treated similarly on eBay when they are not the same!  Same thing with postal services that do deliver to parcel lockers and couriers that don't deliver to parcel lockers (such as non-AusPost couriers to AusPost Parcel lockers, unless you're willing to pay a big fee).

I think the idea of sellers being able to selectively block one or both of PO Boxes and Parcel Lockers for specifc items that are unsuitable for these is a good idea (but not as a blanket rule).

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Unfortunately eBay doesn't seem to prioritise or care about this issue - I made so many requests for this to be implemented, reported every instance of mail that was RTS and involved in an INR (clear evidence of a disappointing buying experience for buyers), but they barely acknowledged it, aside from a "we'll pass this on to our tech team for consideration" Smiley Indifferent

 

Successful delivery of packages that aren't eligible seems to reply on so many varying factors, right down to the location and the whims of the staff handling the mail, but my fail rate for delivery was so high I just made it a flat rule not to send to them any more - I have a big red warning in my listings, but still get people supplying locker addresses - some are fine when I ask for an alternative address, some get mad, some never reply at all and I cancel the transaction. 

 

You can't actually create a postage label through Aus Post for a parcel locker or collect address without including the buyer's email on the label, so clearly they have determined this to be an essential component of those addresses, and those can also often be on international packages regardless of the size - these labels are all created electronically, with data shared to Aus Post's systems automatically, so notifications and the like are more likely to reach the recipient - I wondered if putting the email on a letter package would make a difference, but no one at Aus Post is going to even see it, let alone enter it into their system, at least not until the final point where someone decides what to do with the package, and at that stage the email address isn't going to help any more than the other customer-identifying info on there (and which should already be in their system, anyway). 

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Since Australia Post now only leave cards in the letterbox instead of delivering the actual parcel if it requires a signature, I have changed to only buying from sellers who use couriers from now on. I still have to sit home all day and wait, but at least couriers actually attempt delievry most of the time. If they don't, I put in a complaint and ask for redelivery and they do so. Waaaaaay better than anything Australia Post provides lately. They used to be really good, but sadly not any more.

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@flyingeric62 wrote:

Since Australia Post now only leave cards in the letterbox instead of delivering the actual parcel if it requires a signature, I have changed to only buying from sellers who use couriers from now on. I still have to sit home all day and wait, but at least couriers actually attempt delievry most of the time. If they don't, I put in a complaint and ask for redelivery and they do so. Waaaaaay better than anything Australia Post provides lately. They used to be really good, but sadly not any more.


 

good luck with that.

 

There have been many members posting on these boards about the pitfalls of using courier delivery.  These include (but not limited to):

- items going missing

- damaged items

- signature items ‘safe dropped’ without signature

- no redelivery option on some items

- sellers using courier brokers . . . giving buyer no choice of courier

- item ending up with fastway courier

- delivery not attempted and buyer having to collect from courier depot

 

 

Please do come back in 6 months and let us know how your decision pans out.

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Couriers are a nightmare. Never again for me. Australia Post or pick up only and I won't buy from a seller who uses a courier

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You throw abuse around and attack a comment from four years ago

 

And then call someone else pathetic 

 

What a big man you must be

 

No doubt who will be along shortly to give you a great big pat on the back

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