Thread: Sluggish AU post delivery times

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

That makes it about 3 hours to East Warby from here. Yet another reason to not visit family

Phil

I take it that you use to live here or your family moved here to get away from you

Originally Posted by Acco

I take it that you use to live here or your family moved here to get away from you

Born bred and raised there. Come to think of it, they didn't try to stop me when I left

I have had stuff come from America quicker than from Sydney 2 hours away . Our postage system is very patchy to say the least. We had three parcels posted last week from Sydney all posted together at the same time but only one has arrived yesterday . My mail only seems to come every few days not every day as some days there is a big bunch of letters and the postal dates show that some were posted a week ago . It seems to me that there is no such thing as a daily postal sorting service anymore . The Postman may come past everyday but that does not mean your mail is sorted and delivered each day as it comes in .
I guess it could be worse and we could have a service like some third world countries have . However there is a big difference between the service you get at a Real Post Office and an agency ( privately owned post office ) My local Post office has very good staff so that makes up for a lot .

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

Born bred and raised there. Come to think of it, they didn't try to stop me when I left

You'll have to drop me a PM next time you're visiting.

Got it today..... 8 days later...

Brett "fencefurniture" sent me a 4.5 kg box of liogier files and colt drills yesterday. They turned up today about midday. That's from katoomba to here in 24 hours. I guess maybe there service is more erratic than downright unreliable.

I ordered something small (padded envelope) from Melb on the w/e and got it today (Tue).

Originally Posted by Acco

You'll have to drop me a PM next time you're visiting.

Will do

Originally Posted by Ueee

Brett "fencefurniture" sent me a 4.5 kg box of liogier files and colt drills yesterday. They turned up today about midday. That's from katoomba to here in 24 hours. I guess maybe there service is more erratic than downright unreliable.

Hi Ewan,
I will be posting your tool holder tomorrow. Interesting to see how long it takes to arrive. Probably not as long as it took me to clean it and put it on a postpak tube. Apologies for that.

Phil

Thanks Phil,
Should be interesting to see how long it takes. You didn't need to clean it up, but i certainly won't complain that you have

Originally Posted by Ueee

Thanks Phil,
Should be interesting to see how long it takes. You didn't need to clean it up, but i certainly won't complain that you have

Hi Ewan,
Posted it today about lunch time, registered mail.
Had to clean it, I kept getting dirty hands

Phil