Posting Items to PO Boxes

[nightcrawler-games]

Hi there,

out of curiosity...  have you guys been having a lot of problems posting non registered items to PO Boxes? 

im asking because i just had a request claiming the item was never received, and in the last couple of months i have been having a few issues with items sent to PO Boxes... im actually considering not posting items to PO Boxes anymore... 

Thank you.

[joethenuts]

maybe the post person  saw the number 123   and decided to add them togather and put it in post box 6  mmmm

[digital*ghost]

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@crowsman53 wrote:

I used to have a PO Box here in Alelaide and the number of times when I went to collect my mail only to find mail addressed to other PO Boxes. 

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I regularly get mail that's meant for the same PO box number at a different post office (different suburb, same post code), so there's quite a number of (internal / system) ways mail to boxes can go wrong (I know the other box has received my mail, too, because I've also received mail that has "NOT xxxxxx, XXXXXX!!" angrily written on it ). 

I send items out to PO boxes pretty much every day, though, and so far experience far more delivery issues to street addresses. 

[joethenuts]

you would think it easier for aus post to deliver to post boxes , but how can a post box number with the same postcode  be in a different suburb  ,  aus post have over 20 people on over $500.000 a year  , you would think 1 of those could fix this problem.

[digital*ghost]

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@joethenuts wrote:

you would think it easier for aus post to deliver to post boxes , but how can a post box number with the same postcode  be in a different suburb  ,  aus post have over 20 people on over $500.000 a year  , you would think 1 of those could fix this problem.

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Post codes are often shared between adjacent suburbs, but when there is more than one post office with PO boxes within the same post code, the boxes are actually supposed to be numbered differently (i.e one PO will have boxes numbered 1-200, the next PO will have boxes numbered 201-500, or what have you).

The other post office is (or rather was) a Business Centre, and I'm not entirely sure which one came first or why they weren't numbered the way most others are, but the business centre was shut down and now it's pretty much just there for the boxes, and closes at 2pm every day. 

[joethenuts]

and you would think  in all that time someone would of realised it by now,  mmmmmm

it reminds me of a place i worked a long time ago pretty much a family business, and one day i needed a hand in the warehouse and yelled out mario , and 3 blokes yelled out what , so i yelled out mario casa and still 3 bloke said what ,  i just did it myself, this family were  old school were family cousins and uncles and so were all called mario . 2 of the cousins lived in the same house ,i wonder how they went with the mail. 

[lyndal1838]

Joe, where .I live there a 4 suburbs with the same postcode and 3 of them have post offices.  One is a full post office and 2 are LPOs.

All of them have post boxes.

Several members of my family have had boxes at different post offices for over 30 years without any major problems.

On the odd occasion when mail was in the wrong box we were told to just put it back into the street postbox as we usually collected our mail outside the post offices opening hours.

There were never any dramas....the mail was just redelivered to the correct box.

[joethenuts]

but the different post boxes should have different numbers like digi said , and you should have no problems ever.

[saarzi]

Lyndall and Joe...

Can you pleaasee knock off the back and forth sagas you two regularly have. You are BOTH regularly crowding up threads with pure **bleep**. 

Its soo depressing to come into these threads for some intelligent convo about business related things and then theres you two.

No one cares which one of you is right or wrong, or semantics, or the bizarre stuff you argue over. Can you at least do it via private messages?

Its like battle of the dodos.

[joethenuts]

well  well  well for a start we are not arguing on this thread  if i cant talk to lyndal about this thread on post boxes ,well il be.

she is just stating about 3 of her family members who use these boxes, 

ps  you dont have to read it or post about it. 

remember posts have different opinions ,which is good  remember there are 2 sides to most stories .mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[collect247]

Really?

Lyndal and Joe happen to be two of the most knowledgeable posters on here and them replying to each in a good or bad way just shows how passionate they both are about what they are saying.