Australia Post

[tubs]

Anyone else notice in their suburbs and driving around that posties are now on push bikes instead of motorbikes?

Wow talk about cost cutting, I found it very weird on the start and thought it was just a one off but now I am seeing it all over canberra.

[The Nickman]

Why don't you just keep creating more threads, billyt?? Someone might actually give a ****.

[Shadow Boxer]

I think we've had enough now, can someone call security.

[-GD-]

****

This is what happens on school holidays

[Botman]

Isnt there some kind of daycare centre your parents can put you in to keep you occupied?
There has GOT to be a sand pit somewhere

[Off]

Go you chicken fat go.

[gerg]

Isnt there some kind of daycare centre your parents can put you in to keep you occupied?
There has GOT to be a sand pit somewhere

Daddy hasnt bought the sand yet.

billyt I bought an ice-cream today even though it was very cold. Grateful your thoughts?

[-PJ-]

The postie in my suburb rides a motorcycle.

[bonehead]

Mine is a contractor in a hiace

[-TW-]

Australia post pisses me off.. Some bloke is contracted to do parcel delivery and all he does is drive around in a van and card drop..


What the **** is the point of having a van

[dubby]

Some parcels need to be signed when delivered.

[-TW-]

Yeah I know.. But most of mine don't

[dubby]

Are you home when they drop off?

My mate is a postie. Some of the stories he tells me are bloody hilarious. He showed me a video he took of a magpie chasing him down the road, bombing the hell out of him. It was clearly a mentally deranged magpie, this thing had one clear motive; destroy the postman! My mate was on his postie bike and the maggie was keeping up!

[Toviii]

While we're talking about the Post, I hate how they get you to sign on those little electronic pads. My handwriting always ends up looking like I'm 5.

[-PJ-]

ya gotta love your local postie. imagine life without them.

[-TW-]

Are you home when they drop off?

My mate is a postie. Some of the stories he tells me are bloody hilarious. He showed me a video he took of a magpie chasing him down the road, bombing the hell out of him. It was clearly a mentally deranged magpie, this thing had one clear motive; destroy the postman! My mate was on his postie bike and the maggie was keeping up!

Usually.. I will see him drop from my window

I dunno if it's because we live in a complex it not, but it's still a pain

[Shezza]

I hate the postie. Prick drives his bike down the same groove every day and ruins my front grass.

[Raider Bell]

Put a few green painted boulders there.

[Shezza]

Perhaps string some fishing line up

[Raider Bell]

Now we're talking. Teach him to deliver the mail in an efficient and effective method.

[Professor]

Sounds as if, from the route he takes to get to the door / mail box, that he's already found the most efficient and effective manner - this will be jeopardised should he have to go the long way now

[Raider Bell]

I should have said "That'll teach him to deliver blah blah blah"

[Professor]

Haha, I new where you were going - I was just being a jerk

[FuiFui BradBrad]

Yeah I hate Australia Post. I bought the other half an xmas gift last year, and to avoid her seeing it, decided to get it delivered to work. I left an instruction saying that they would need to call me from the lobby phone and I'll come down to get it.

A few days later, one of my colleagues came to me with a calling card for the parcel. The scrunchness and footprints all over it implied that it was just laying on the ground. I got no call. I ran up to the post office to pick it up, only to be told that I had to wait until after 4.

Annoyed, I went back and complained via their site. Their "Customer Service Expert's" solution? "Well, maybe next time you should have your parcels delivered to your house."

I went back after 4, and had a vent to the lady behind the counter, who only said "Meh, contractors. What can you do?"

Isnt that the biggest cop out of an excuse? If you went to a restaurant, and the waiter brought out a dump on a plate, served with a garnish of rocket and responded with "Meh, temps, what can you do?" You wouldn't cop it.

[Schifty]

Person behind the counter was probably a contractor as well.

[Begbie]

I like the chick that delivers my parcels. I'm always home to greet her beeps.

[FuiFui BradBrad]

The other day I got a brochure from Australia Post promoting a new service. Apparently you can get all you mail online now. You pay a small membership fee to have someone scan your mail and send it to an online mailbox where you can view it.

So for a fee, they will send you your mail electronically... Electronic mail... Email... They're charging you to use email...

[-TW-]

Or you can just get your mail bills delivered via email or bpay view.. Everything else can be a surprise

[jedski]

Are you home when they drop off?

My mate is a postie. Some of the stories he tells me are bloody hilarious. He showed me a video he took of a magpie chasing him down the road, bombing the hell out of him. It was clearly a mentally deranged magpie, this thing had one clear motive; destroy the postman! My mate was on his postie bike and the maggie was keeping up!

In my previous unit complex, the parcel contractor knew that I left home at a particular time of morning, he would make sure that he rang my door buzzer early enough that I could grab them straight away. When he was replaced, I started finding cards in my mailbox first thing in the morning, when I queried this with the post office I was told that it was because I wasn't home. When I told them that I had been home and that he was just being lazy, I was told that he had a lot of parcels to deliver, obviously he didn't have time to ring the buzzer of every unit that was due to receive a parcel, and that this would be how it would be from now on. I suggested hiring more deliverymen, I got an eye-roll in response.

I now get all my parcels delivered to work and carry them home myself. In the rare event that I'm buying something too heavy to carry home on the train, I get it delivered to my wife's work and she brings it home in the car. Saves me having to take time off every week or two to collect parcels from the post office (which only operates 9-5)

[FuiFui BradBrad]

Are you home when they drop off?

My mate is a postie. Some of the stories he tells me are bloody hilarious. He showed me a video he took of a magpie chasing him down the road, bombing the hell out of him. It was clearly a mentally deranged magpie, this thing had one clear motive; destroy the postman! My mate was on his postie bike and the maggie was keeping up!

In my previous unit complex, the parcel contractor knew that I left home at a particular time of morning, he would make sure that he rang my door buzzer early enough that I could grab them straight away. When he was replaced, I started finding cards in my mailbox first thing in the morning, when I queried this with the post office I was told that it was because I wasn't home. When I told them that I had been home and that he was just being lazy, I was told that he had a lot of parcels to deliver, obviously he didn't have time to ring the buzzer of every unit that was due to receive a parcel, and that this would be how it would be from now on. I suggested hiring more deliverymen, I got an eye-roll in response.

I now get all my parcels delivered to work and carry them home myself. In the rare event that I'm buying something too heavy to carry home on the train, I get it delivered to my wife's work and she brings it home in the car. Saves me having to take time off every week or two to collect parcels from the post office (which only operates 9-5)

I've said a similar thing to them about the Bradchelor pad. I told them instead of the card saying "I tried to deliver a parcel, but you weren't home" it should read "Aint nobody got time for that".

It's true though BPB, the postie has 1 job, and they can't even manage to get that right. At least you can get one of those parcel drop off boxes at some 7-Elevens. Im considering signing up for that

[-TW-]

Aus post has their own parcel boxes too, only thing the closest one to me is like a 10 min drive

[jedski]

they have the parcel boxes near me too, but I refuse to pay for the privilege of collecting packages myself simply because the delivery driver is too bloody lazy to ring by buzzer, or because Aust Post have hired not enough drivers to have enough time to ring every buzzer