Wow, have you got it wrong.
@south.coffee wrote:If your parcel is a $2 item coming from China, consider yourself lucky if you receive it one way or another. Australia Post is in no hurry to deliver items they lose money on and are very low priority.
I have long given up getting $2 items from China.....I have everything I need. However, when I was buying from China I rarely had any problems.....certainly no more than from other countries. I rarely waited more than 14 days for items from China/Hong Kong no matter what the estimated delivery dates were.....usually much quicker.
If your Postie is on a walking beat he is allowed a maximum weight in his back pack and your delivery could be 'carded'. If your Postie is on an electric or motorbike he too has similar but higher weight allowances. If a Postie's run that day has a ton of small Chinese parcels, he can offload to the contractor for Post Office pick up.
I have lived here for 50 years and have had a number of posties in that time....some good, some bad.
The first 2 posties were on foot and both were excellent....nothing was too much trouble.....and they did not just take one bag of letters.
This is a large run and it was broken down into 3 sections. The posties sorted their run and kept a bag for the beginning of the run. The mail for the second part of the run was driven to a house at the start of that section and left at the property by agreement with the householder. The same with the third bag.
After the arrival of the push bike and then the motorbike the posties did carry more but the run was still broken with at least one bag of mail waiting along the route.
There was a time when ALL packages came with the contractor....no exceptions. These days the contractors only get the large parcels and the posties are expected to take everything else even when it is obvious they will not fit in any normal letterbox.
If your item is sent from within Australia and over 250g it automatically goes to the contractor for delivery in a van. That's why the postage cost is higher. Priority is ALWAYS given to mail posted from within Australia.
Absolutely not so.....my contractor is only given very large parcels these days and the posties gets saddled with small parcels that will not even fit in the average letterbox. It is no wonder the posties baulk at delivering them. It makes no difference where the parcels originate....they are delivered when thy are scheduled for delivery.
Delivery carding is a secondary option for mail delivery and there is usually a good reason why this has happened. Speak with your Postie in person if you can and ALWAYS keep them on side. They know more about you than what you think...
I very rarely have anything carded these days....just the occasional item that needs a signture and i could not get to the door in time. This usually happens when it is not my regular postman wh always waits for me to get to the door.
I always keep my postie and contractor on side.....I bet there are not many posties who get Christmas gifts from their clients.
My postie/contractor know what I want them to know about me.
One of my best posties ever went to school with my children so I knew quite a bit about him. He always took the trouble to bring subscription magazines to the door every month.
If you want detailed answers to your problems please join the Australia Post Online Community Forum
I don't need any detailed answers to anything. For the most part I don't have any problems that cannot be sorted out with the postman, the contractor or my local post office.
And I am very familiar with the courier industry too. I was a subbie for 10-12 years, my OH has been in the industry for 30 years
and my daughter has risen from a courier on a motor scooter to the National Transport Manager of an Interntional Logistics company in 33 years.
