I wouldn't mind the concentration on local parcel delivery it it was being done efficiently. My neighbour runs her own fashion design business from home and uses parcel post quite a lot. Two weeks ago, she sent one to Werribee - a place to which she or I could drive in 40 minutes. The parcel still hasn't arrived. This isn't the first such instance she's had of a complete lack of service. Why is the head honcho of AP getting over $2.5 m a year and talking about bonuses? It certainly can't be for "exceptional service."
I’ve no complaints re AP. Every other day delivery is neither here nor there.I wouldn't mind the concentration on local parcel delivery it it was being done efficiently. My neighbour runs her own fashion design business from home and uses parcel post quite a lot. Two weeks ago, she sent one to Werribee - a place to which she or I could drive in 40 minutes. The parcel still hasn't arrived. This isn't the first such instance she's had of a complete lack of service. Why is the head honcho of AP getting over $2.5 m a year and talking about bonuses? It certainly can't be for "exceptional service."
Meanwhile I order a hamper for fathers day for my dad on the NSW Central Coast on Tues, said it would be delivered Tues this week, I got an email from Aust Post it was delivered on Friday and it came from Sydney (dad confirmed).
Sent a parcel from Dubai to NSW Central coast earlier this year via Emirates Post with tracking, 5 working days!
You win some you loose some.
There always be a need for a letter delivery service of some sort, for things such as legal notices (fines, etc), postal voting (Donald Trump notwithstanding) and people without electronic access. Might be incorporated in the parcels service, eg computer monitored to ensure there has been a parcel delivery in the last two days, if not, a separate delivery of any letters. An email address won't cut it, particularly if the 'post box' is on a foreign server (let alone the route it takes to get there).
Me too.Tracking says it was processed in Melbourne on August 29. And it hasn't moved since then....I'm nearly up to 2 weeks for a parcel to get from Melb to Central Vic....I assume you are tracking it Carnot?
I had a Fastway delivery from Melbourne a month or so back, never arrived.
Tracking showed it out for delivery a few days after it was shipped out then returned to Bendigo as undeliverable. Then sent out again a week later and shown on tracking as delivered at 8.40 PM on a Tuesday night!!! Which it wasn't, that was a lie, I was working in my office in the front room till after 11 and even if I hadn't heard the driver park out front or coming up the steps to the door the sensor light would have been a dead give away.
This sort of thing is becoming more and more common during Covid due to massive parcel loads leading to short cuts being taken by overworked drivers and contractors.
Auspost is essentially in crisis. Dysfunctional. It'll take them weeks and months to sort out.
It'll be ages before online voting is robust or secure enough.They always Insist that voting be In physical paper form, so the votes can be seen In real, counted In real.
There will always be people that can't or won't use online.
Fines, car registration, etc go by mail.I must be imagining that I paid my car rego online, after being advised by email, just a few days ago. As I have done for 2 or years, or more.
It'll be ages before online voting is robust or secure enough.
There will always be people that can't or won't use online.
Fines, car registration, etc go by mail.
It'll be ages before online voting is robust or secure enough.
There will always be people that can't or won't use online.
Having 1/3rd of the workforce sorting parcels in vic helps that. Also half the scanning for tracking isnt being done. (I had something jump from QLD to Melbourne all of a sudden, same with stuff getting sorted in Sydney)Me too.
Item picked up at Oakleigh Monday 31/8
Processed at Melbourne Tuesday 1/9
No movement since.
You should try any of the New York state DMV's. Its like stepping back in time to a NSW MV Rego centre in the 1970's. We are light years ahead even in regard to banking where cheques are still used to pay workers.Fines, car registration, etc go by mail.
It'll be ages before online voting is robust or secure enough.
There will always be people that can't or won't use online.
Fines etc, for a country that is very successful at selling IT solutions globally in many sectors, Australian govts are seemingly some of the slowest uptakers of technology (correction, obviously there are options to go online, we pay our Qld boat rego online) Using the mail system is completely outdated approach. UAE, all fines sent via sms and you go into the app to pay and car cannot re-registered until all fines are cleared.
Voting agree, online will take some time to change, it is however used OS. This however doesn't require the mail system we have today to retain a paper system.
Within 2 decades (likely alot less) the only people not online options will be handicapped in some manner, mental or physical. Anyone under the age of 60-65 should be computer literate or living with someone who is. Anyone under the age of 40-45 should be computer literate. As there are people in this group over the age of 70 who seemingly able to use a PC and string a few sentences together with some level of success, the % of population the mail system is catering for is shrinking rapidly. Regardless, while home delivered mail may cease within 10 years this doesn't prevent the retention of pickup from post office to continue for sometime.
You should try any of the New York state DMV's. Its like stepping back in time to a NSW MV Rego centre in the 1970's. We are light years ahead even in regard to banking where cheques are still used to pay workers.
https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/coronavirus-australian-post-cuts-letter-delivery-to-every-second-day-due-to-covid19/cc444500-aff1-4b0a-bbdb-9a9811cc4d74Shane, the article you linked to is 5 months old, but we're still getting mail delivered 5 days a week.
Australia Post has finally been able to reduce home letter deliveries to every 2nd day, I think they have been trying to implement this for a decade or more with the usual outrage to following. Now thanks to CV-19 it just happens without any fanfare.
https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/coronavirus-australian-post-cuts-letter-delivery-to-every-second-day-due-to-covid19/cc444500-aff1-4b0a-bbdb-9a9811cc4d74Shane, the article you linked to is 5 months old, but we're still getting mail delivered 5 days a week.
Australia Post has finally been able to reduce home letter deliveries to every 2nd day, I think they have been trying to implement this for a decade or more with the usual outrage to following. Now thanks to CV-19 it just happens without any fanfare.
Ordered some face masks on 28/8.
Visa bill due Friday 18/9 - still not yet received in the mail.
Gas and electricity are a worry due to the large discounts to pay on time - still waiting for a gas account due on 6/9.