I currently have 3 parcels that are stuck on initiated. One has been sitting on that since december 16. I thought i was doing the right thing by using ebay postage. I usually just put the parcels into the red box out the front of our local post office. All 3 that are missing were dropped into the same box over various times. Yet i have another red box about 800 metres from my house that i use when im being lazy. The same postie collects from both, yet the only trouble i appear to be having is the red box that i thought would be the saffest. It does say with ebay postage that you can drop into red box but when you do the item just says initiated. So its back to going into the PO and having them scanned. Australia Post should be made to pay the full amount on items lost. If they wish to employ contractors etc rather than actually employ people directly then why should we be made to pay for the things they lose.