Aust Post parcel truck fire affecting VIC parcels heading to NSW and QLD

[panoramic7]

Did anyone else easy about this. There may well be a few unhappy buyers this week (including mine possibly). 

http://www.smh.com.au/national/another-australia-post-truck-catches-fire-on-the-hume-highway-2016090...

[kopenhagen5]

Not to mention the collapse of Nanjin shipping and ships unable to unload in many ports around the world.

Supply will be in chaos for a little while.

[davewil1964]

Maybe we SHOULD use couriers.

AP seem to have a disproportionate number of trucks/trains going up in flames.

[4green2000]

maybe the driver was charging a samsung   mobile phone ?

[dazzlingrosettes]

Exactly what my hubby said. Thank goodness I am on holidays, so no Ebay mail.

[6508.froggy]

I would suggest if you had tracking noted to your item that you keep an eye on the tracking and if it seems to be going nowhere that might be the answer that it is stuck on the hume in ashes.

Hopefully there would be compensation from Aust Post if that was the case. I am all clear and I hope other sellers have missed this truck.

[casbit33]

I have posted 4 items to QLD on the 7th and 8th.  2 of these have tracking and 2 are large letters.

I have checked one of the tracked ones and that is in Qld already. Can't track letters of course. My last tracking item is worrying me. I live in Wodonga very near Albury. That one says in transit from Wodonga. So I think It might have went up in flames. 

I will keep checking it and hopefully it will get through.  Really hoping the letters will arive and get feedback so I can stop worrying about those too.

[englishrosegardens]

They did seem to specifically say parcels rather than letters, but if the truck that went up in flames last year (earlier this year?) had letters in it I'm not sure why this one wouldn't have. I posted several large letters to NSW and Qld last Wed/Thurs, with an average value of $24.

Why do so many of their trucks go up in flames when we don't hear of any other trucks having fires, or do we just not hear about the others? It makes me wonder whether they ever check their tyres or whether they just wait until they blow out.

[lyndal1838]

Or maybe it has something to do with their loads?

How many times do the boardies see someone sending dangerous goods and having no idea of the possible ramifications if AP guidelines are not adhered to.

Multiply that by the thousands of non ebay parcels being sent and it is anybody's guess how many parcels have the potential to cause problems.

I know for a fact that the temperatures in some of the vans and trucks used for delivery can get very hot....dangerously so in the middle of summer.   Add together heat, movement and a restricted item that has not been declared or packaged properly and there is always the potential for a fire.

[davidc4430]

the poor driver was probably cooking a roast in his BBQ kettle, swerved to miss a little old lady crossing the road upsetting the BBQ causing a small fire which he tried to put out by throwing kero on that he thought was water (so easy to do when half asleep)