dylan11235813
Community Member
In response to lyndal1838

on ‎11-12-2014 02:57 PM

The OP has included the saturday/sundays as no deliveries.

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downeyas
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In response to lyndal1838

on ‎11-12-2014 03:12 PM

Ok, heads up, my dates DO match up with Dylans timetable, in country towns, as I am, my dates are correct - are you telling me that all sellers live in big towns?

 

Yes I have included the weekends but I did that to also help anyone that wants to arrange a short holiday  for themselves

 

I also requested that you  ' don't shoot me down'  but Lyndall and Collective, you just couldn't help yourselves could you Woman Frustrated

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downeyas
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In response to downeyas

on ‎11-12-2014 03:21 PM

And further to that, Australia Post DO NOT give the timetables for Australia Post Shops - they are privately owned and can run their own timetable - and they do!

 

Am I angry? you bet your sweet bippy I am

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lyndal1838
Honored Contributor
In response to downeyas

on ‎11-12-2014 03:39 PM

@downeyas wrote:

Ok, heads up, my dates DO match up with Dylans timetable, in country towns, as I am, my dates are correct - are you telling me that all sellers live in big towns?

 

Yes I have included the weekends but I did that to also help anyone that wants to arrange a short holiday  for themselves

 

I also requested that you  ' don't shoot me down'  but Lyndall and Collective, you just couldn't help yourselves could you Woman Frustrated

Sorry if I offended you but if you are going to advise ebay of AP hours then surely you should be using the official dates and hours as available on the AP website.

 

If you wish to advise your own customers of the hours that apply to your local area that is fine, but don't imply that it applies to the whole of Australia.   I accept that many POs are closed on Saturday....my particular reference was to Monday 29th December...a weekday, and business as usual according to AP. 

Their Picnic Day holiday is Friday, 2nd January which is the only extra day that applies to AP only.

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cherry*135
Community Member
In response to lyndal1838

‎11-12-2014 07:13 PM - edited ‎11-12-2014 07:16 PM

Yep, that Picnic Day  ( next one 2nd Jan as lyndal posted) makes the closure seem longer, especially if it falls between Christmas Day and 1 Jan... usually only one day the PO is open that week.. I receive late Christmas cards about 3 Jan.. over them by then.

 

 

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jensmanchester-australia
Community Member

on ‎11-12-2014 08:39 PM

From what I can remember from previous years the delivery times displayed by ebay over the Christmas/ New Year break take into consideration the public holidays as ebay have a link to the AP site.

 

I have never had a problem with buyers having unrealistic expectations of delivery times during the Christmas/New Year holiday period. 99% of buyers are well aware that Australia Post are closed for Christmas/New Year. The only day of closure which may cause a bit of confusion is the holiday on the 2nd of January which buyers may not be aware of. That is very easily overcome by communicating with buyers who may have paid for items which would normally have got posted on that particular day.

sparrow2207
Community Member
In response to jensmanchester-australia

on ‎12-12-2014 03:59 PM

I have experienced in the past that the PO may be open but there have been no deliveries because the posties have not been working (or only a skelaton staff) and the private contractors that deliver parcelsfrom the local sorting centers have been on holidays from 23 December until 4/5 January so no parcels going anywhere for 2 weeks only letter post.  The 2nd week of January is chaos in my local PO as they run out of places to put all the parcels that are dumped there for collection.

 

Am thinking of pulling all my current listings until next year.

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