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@letscleanupmycupboards wrote:

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@digital*ghost wrote:

There's actually a few things that can't be sent to a parcel locker, which are sent via Aus Post (eg letters and anything requiring signature on delivery - if they're sent using AP, though, the items are supposed to be forwarded on to the address used to sign up for the locker. So, even if the courier items were ultimately lodged with AP for delivery, if they required SOD - as most couriers do - it never would have gone to the locker anyway). 

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Actually you can have these delivered to a parcel locker.

 

I asked when they first came out and when you sign up for the service, you are accepting a blanket authority to have signature items delivered. The assumption is that you receive the notification, only you have the password, so you have collected it, collection details ie when you access the locker are available digitally in the event of an "I didn't get it".

 

I think the only thing you have to do over the counter is if there is extra postage to pay or a COD. But signature is fine.

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Yes, I did ge that wrong, I posted the full list of ineligible items a few posts later, and it's items that require proof of ID that can't be delivered to a locker (so packages with services like person to person delivery can't go to a locker).

Re: security - my little box can't even hold half of my items, so if my PO box was jimmied open, the most they'd get is a small package or two and a bunch of "you have mail to collect cards", and thankfully the PO staff know me (and my box number) well enough to be unlikely to hand over the packages to anyone else - plus, if they came in during office hours with those cards, the burglary likely would have already been discovered, so it wouldn't be the wisest of ideas to return to the scene of the crime with the stolen property in order to try and get more.... 😄