Postal delivers from O/S

[Moondog55]

OK so USPS tracking showed delivered to the address of posting in the US of A which finally turned up the day I started a lost article claim
and now I am waiting on another delivery via DHL international post
Tracking shows it arriving in Singapore a week a go and right now it is in Frankfurt Germany; I wonder how long it will take to get back to Singapore and then Melbourne??

[michael_p]

According to several threads I have read on cycling forums, deliveries from Germany are notoriously slow. Not sure if this applies to your situation as your parcel is just passing through. Your parcel could just be waiting for a spot on a flight.

Michael.

[Biggles]

OK so USPS tracking showed delivered to the address of posting in the US of A which finally turned up the day I started a lost article claim
and now I am waiting on another delivery via DHL international post
Tracking shows it arriving in Singapore a week a go and right now it is in Frankfurt Germany; I wonder how long it will take to get back to Singapore and then Melbourne??

I am most interested to know why a parcel has travelled from the USA to Singapore, then back up to Germany. That does not make any sense. Your profile says you are in Norlane, Geelong (I am in Highton). When I order from the NYC / USA it travels via UPS and goes straight to Sydney (Customs/sorting/handover to Australia Post). The question you should be asking is why your article has detoured from Singapore to Frankfurt. It is not the correct route to Australia at all, even for orders coming direct from Germany.

Tracking details are very often shown retarded (by time) and long periods can pass before any update occurs, and then suddenly it shows it has touched down at your known (extremely busy) Australia Post distribution facility (for us in Geelong, this is in Tarneit /Sunshine West, followed by your local postal centre (in my case, Grovedale; for you, probably North Geelong centre). When that turns up in the tracking status, the item is delivered the next day.

[north-north-west]

Simple answer: some twit confused Australia and Austria.

[Moondog55]

Simple answer: some twit confused Australia and Austria.

Well this one is coming from India but YES It isn't the first time somebody in a post office has confused Australia with Austria and why I say we need Alpha Numeric country codes.

[ribuck]

... I say we need Alpha Numeric country codes.

OK Moondog, from now on I will use the following alphanumeric codes: AU5TRA71A and AU5TR1A

[Moondog55]

I was thinking more along the lines of OZ 2 Raylya

[Nuts]

Ah dog! Another Austrian Aussie!! ; )

http://abc7news.com/society/hiker-struc ... g/2339020/

[Biggles]

Simple answer: some twit confused Australia and Austria.

Well this one is coming from India but YES It isn't the first time somebody in a post office has confused Australia with Austria and why I say we need Alpha Numeric country codes.

A numeric country/postal code is embeeded in the barcode on international parcels.
That "somebody" you mentioned is more likely a very very busy computer that reads off the barcodes of each and every parcel that comes along the conveyor.

[Neo]

I bought a pack through Outdoorfair.de

Took 2-3 weeks and tracking said it spent a week of that at an airport (guessing location). Nice gear, service and prices/delivery cost BTW.

At the moment waiting for a delivery from Melbourne to NSW. Tracking shows it spent a few days in Chullora NSW then went back to Victoria! Sent an email. That's with Auspost, usually their deliveries are pretty quick.

[idc1970]

I bought a hammock about four years ago from America. It went to Germany, then China where it stayed for a few weeks, then back to America before finally landing in Australia. Took six weeks in the end.


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[Moondog55]

Canada Post may be worse
I have been waiting on an Arctic parka patter from Lynda MacPhee for 5 weeks now For a damned 120 gram letter If it's coming by sea they are now using turtles I think

[ofuros]

Yep, Canada gets my gong too, same as you 5weeks & counting...

[Moondog55]

Canada post just delivered and I got a refund on the other because I wasn't prepared tp wait any longer

[RonK]

I bought a pack through Outdoorfair.de

Took 2-3 weeks and tracking said it spent a week of that at an airport (guessing location). Nice gear, service and prices/delivery cost BTW.

At the moment waiting for a delivery from Melbourne to NSW. Tracking shows it spent a few days in Chullora NSW then went back to Victoria! Sent an email. That's with Auspost, usually their deliveries are pretty quick.

Tracking can be unreliable. I had a post sent from the UK recently addressed to my Auspost parcel locker, thought it was taking a bit long so checked Auspost tracking which showed that the item had been returned to the sender.

Contacted the sender and told them to cancel the order and they responded that it was waiting at my local PO for collection. I went there the next day and collected - it turns out the package was too large for a parcel locker. I've had this happen before and Auspost advised me accordingly by text and email to collect over the counter.

So this time Auspost failed to notify me that the item was availble for collection, and they incorrectly entered a tracking update that it had been returned.

[Nuts]

For Canada, if you have a US forward-shipping account, sending via there seems to work out for quicker/better shipping options.

[Neo]

RE tracking, lodged an enquiry then was picking up something else so asked at the counter, they could only see the same info and suggested being a smaller business it might be because they build up a few items before getting moved on.

Curious. Has since gone from sunshine west to seymour, back to sunshine west, to adeer then back to sunshine west and is currently sitting in adeer again.

I hope it arrives soon, could have used it the last two nights!

[stry]

I bought a pack through Outdoorfair.de

Took 2-3 weeks and tracking said it spent a week of that at an airport (guessing location). Nice gear, service and prices/delivery cost BTW.

At the moment waiting for a delivery from Melbourne to NSW. Tracking shows it spent a few days in Chullora NSW then went back to Victoria! Sent an email. That's with Auspost, usually their deliveries are pretty quick.

Ahh Chullora I've had two items sold by me "lost" in Chullora for a week or more. Either that mail centre is understaffed or underbrained.

[wildwanderer]

Logging in to vent as well..

Delivery from the UK. Landed in Sydney, cleared customs all within 2 days of ordering. and then... for the last 8 days it has sat in the freight companies warehouse 35 km from the delivery location.

Tip to the wise. If a merchant wants to use FDM logisitics.. avoid like the plague. They wont respond to queries and only update their tracking every 4-5 days. Absolute crap.

[wayno]

teh flights from the states go to aus via hawaii, a lot of gear i've bought has gone via aus as well.
so year i'd say someone thinks austria is australia and they cant work out where australia is..
i've used UPS> and fed ex and possibly DHL from memory, all had no issues

[Neo]

I once did labour hire at the Underwood mail centre in QLD when they were installing the blue and orange painted conveyor system. German or Dutch company I think.

Parcels go around and barcode readers flip them off down appropriate chutes.

NB all my orders from wildearth land within a week