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  • Originally posted by robusto View Post
    338...I gave them a cheque. It's in the mail.
    My mother has the same problem as you, the delivery guys would leave way too fast. She has pretty severe health issues for the last couple of years, 1.5 minutes to get to the front door would probably be her best time if she was in the office near the front door. Any self respecting courier would be at the next job by the time she answered. She also buys a lot of what her partner calls 'online crap'. She lives in a rural town so there isn't a fleet of auspost guy delivering to her, usually just two. Two Christmas ago she gave them both a bottle of wine, not to solve this problem but to say thanks for the deliveries they did make. After that small token of acknowledgement and appreciation, they now ring the bell at the gate, climb the stairs to her door, leave the parcel and yell her name out. Solved so many problems for her all for $15 or $20. Of course she did the same this year.

    Should she have to? Clearly not. Tiny money though to get speedy delivery and save her or her partner having to visit the Post Office. Obviously better if this isn't required, but just wanted to highlight there is a few ways to get speedy service.

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    • Originally posted by Yelta View Post
      I have a suspicion Australia Post as we know it will be gone within 10 years.
      A number of the outlets have a tough ask, particularly those where the incoming mail greatly exceeds the outgoing mail and other goods and services. They end out holding lots of people's inventory / goods for free.

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      • Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
        A number of the outlets have a tough ask, particularly those where the incoming mail greatly exceeds the outgoing mail and other goods and services. They end out holding lots of people's inventory / goods for free.
        Spot on Barry, once again your comments are on the mark. At Christmas my local post office won't accept larger items from delivery guys as they are full already (inner Sydney PO). I have donated prizes to rural based magazines as the incoming entries help keep their local PO open, as outgoing isn't much.


        The truth unfortunately is your comments apply to Australia as a whole. We get more small items coming in from HK and Singapore than we ever ship back. I was going to mention this after Robusto correctly complained about the cost of local shipping. These overseas items are carried for free by Australia Post (due to international postal treaties) which means there cost base is up helping the overseas companies (who get subsidised post in those two locations ). In the end poor Aussie business and consumers pay higher prices for postage due to so many buying from China. You note even when you buy from mainland China it usually comes through HK post, this is because HK (like Singapore ) is the size of a postage stamp, reciprocal posting rights aren't the same at each end. The far reaches of HK is a few km, of Australia somewhat more.

        I actually looked at setting up a spares section for part of our business in HK, for many small items postage is a third of the cost. I didn't do it as seemed morally wrong, but would have been profitable for us and taken some cost out for the end user, but with a time penalty.

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