Snail mail

Well I guess I should have expected it, ordered a bit of cloth for a mate.
Could have driven down to Sydney and picked it up in a few hours, but no, I had faith in our postal service.
So using the mail tracker after the first week, I located it a state away in QLD. Bit off the beaten track as I am only a couple of hours north of where I sourced the item.

Now at the end of the second week and it's now at Chullora, the next suburb to where I got it from......they say I will get it in another week, maybe I should have had them send it to the end user, bit of a problem though...I have to sign for it.....it's not as if it were a bloody great parcel, it fits in an ordinary envelope....maybe they are just in Christmas post mode.

Merry bloody christmas.

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Originally Posted by muffett.2008

Bit off the beaten track as I am only a couple of hours north of where I sourced the item.

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You may only be a couple of hours away from where you sourced your item but we're now in the 21st century and so you can't expect your mail to be sent directly from A to B.

You guys should try sending mail in this country. If it doesn't get lost it is stolen. Or ends up in a huge pile on a warehouse floor because the communist everything should be equal workers are striking for more pay.

Well after visiting three states, four postal exchanges this well travelled package has finally arrived....good onya Aust. Post.

Better late than never I suppose.

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Originally Posted by muffett.2008

Well after visiting three states, four postal exchanges this well travelled package has finally arrived..

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Known as "The slow boat to China.". (No disrespect intended to any Chinese reading this.)

As a comparison, I sent a volley sight and magazine cut off from NZ to the UK back in 20 June 2021. Never turned up, I refunded the buyer and wrote it off. The buyer to his credit sent me a letter (forgot those things exist anymore!) to say it had arrived over a year later in July of 2022,. His letter from the UK to me took 1 month to get to NZ. The package still shows up as lost at Heathrow airport....

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Originally Posted by muffett.2008

Well after visiting three states, four postal exchanges this well travelled package has finally arrived....good onya Aust. Post.

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Good to know the Empire standard is being maintained.

Every tenth worker...yes, I think that would do it.

And every second manager... :D

"Let them draw straws!"

Waited 8 months for a book from England had actually given it up as lost as it was a rare title I most dearly wanted, it was at the right price due to the lack of research on the sellers behalf !
Lo and behold it turned up it had actually got off in South Africa sat there for a good while then resumed its journey!!!!

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

Waited 8 months for a book from England had actually given it up as lost as it was a rare title I most dearly wanted, it was at the right price due to the lack of research on the sellers behalf !
Lo and behold it turned up it had actually got off in South Africa sat there for a good while then resumed its journey!!!!

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Lucky break. Normally the black hole just swallows stuff that comes that close.

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

Good to know the Empire standard is being maintained.

Every tenth worker...yes, I think that would do it.

And every second manager... :D

"Let them draw straws!"

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I like the way you think :)

It is a pity that due to BEE we cannot get you in as a consultant. A lot of SAPO issues could have been solved.

Well I dunno, maybe my dog bit the postie or something.

It really has been a bad month, I purchased an item on Ebay, delivery date for eight days.....waited ten then contacted seller....had forgotten to post it, still waiting on that one.

Lances 22 book from the U.S, tracked it to Sydney than lost it.....arrived on the 17th, been in transit ever since....still waiting. So far seven days to traverse 250K.

Floods are playing havoc over there maybe they have to use row boats!:madsmile:

I remember the time that my brother wrote a letter to a friend in Australia and left it out for another family member to take to the Post Office to send it air-mail to Australia. The family member totally misunderstood my brother's request, didn't read the address on the envelope, stuck a UK 2nd class stamp and promptly posted it in a "pillar box". I thought that it was hilarious but my brother didn't because he felt that he needed to rewrite the letter and send it again. The funniest part was that the letter actually arrived in Australia, at it's intended destination, several months later, still with it's UK 2nd class stamp. It was quite a few years ago but hats off to Royal Mail for getting the letter to Australia on a second class stamp, even if it did take several months.

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Lucky break. Normally the black hole just swallows stuff that comes that close.

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I like the way you think :)

It is a pity that due to BEE we cannot get you in as a consultant. A lot of SAPO issues could have been solved.

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Not to worry, the future residents of Africa will take the matter in hand I'm sure. ;)