My Australia post rant

I have had The Aus Post Parcel Postie just drop the attempted to deliver slip in the letter box and drive off, she didn't even get out of the van. guess she was late for her morning coffee.

I've heard similar stories from work, some of our customers call us and say they were home all day to find out a card had been left in the letterbox. It can be quite annoying and unprofessional.

There's also been the odd case of couriers delivering things to the office but have just entered into their computer that no one was present! We've busted them doing this by checking the web tracking. Seriously the office is manned between 9am-6pm, how can no one be here!? The excuse is they were short on time and had to wait for the afternoon run but I would rather they not update anything on their system if it's not accurate. Better to leave the status as "With Driver" or whatever rather than make the recipient worry.

yer its been happening alot to me some times it takes 3 days longer then it should or my express item is not drop off till late in the afternoon when been sitting in the mail car all day

Yeah, the driver in our area is pretty good except sometimes I see him handling "fragile" items in a fairly casual way!

But the main thing is, as long as it arrives undamaged I would be happy.

My rant isn't over the poor delivery of incoming purchases which I add hasn't happened to me as yet but more the cost of sending a parcel to other parts of the world.

I've tried on two occasions to send a Collectable Minifigure Case and found out that the cost is the biggest turn off to a potential sale such as today when I was quoted $30.00 to send one to New Zealand.

How do they get away with charging those sorts of prices

Yeah that's true, it really negates the savings/discount on the item.

I've had the same problem with stuff coming from USA, not really worthwhile if it's coming by USPS. Unless it's a hard to find item...