Buying bike parts from overseas, shipping time estimates and methods ?
- Thread starter ozzybmx
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I ordered two weeks ago and it only shipped last night, FFS.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
You bastard! Mine was handed to DHL on 17/8 and is still freaking there!
Nambra
Definitely should have gone to specsavers
Gotta hand it to the Germans, they're really good at getting stuff to the airport.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
They can get it there really fast, consistently. Just stays there for a month usually.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
I got no pressies, just blamed the missus
she says not guilty, said she seen it parked in the layby at the bottom of the driveway at 15:30pm when she came home.Then she says to me after that "how did you know it was there when you were at work"
Got spies !
birddog69
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Both of my mountain bikes are alloy but if this article is accurate we all will keep riding what we have and stock up on spares when ever we see them.
rowdyflat
chez le médecin
I have received no work mail the last few days and have 2 lost parcels so not inclined to buy anything on line at present .
Aust Post do the Telstra defence and just ignore emails, if you are really lucky , someone whose first language isnt English replies with gibberish.
And Aust Post international is shit go DHL.
Another job for the ombudsman.
Aust Post do the Telstra defence and just ignore emails, if you are really lucky , someone whose first language isnt English replies with gibberish.
And Aust Post international is shit go DHL.
Another job for the ombudsman.
rowdyflat
chez le médecin
Vietnam is a lovely country but most of their manufacturing is primitive and I cant imagine how bad their waste disposal systems are ?
Burn it up ,dump it in holes such as bomb craters or in the water as bad or worse than China.
I never thought carbon frames were such a great idea.
HamboCairns
Thanks for all the bananas
Bought a set of Hope Fortus 35 wheels on 3rd September from Wiggle, arrived today in Cairns!
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
CRC-Wiggle use DHL Express, a courier company. I wish Bike24 that is owned by CRC-Wiggle used the same... instead they use the old splinter company called... DHL
aka Dick Head Logistics.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Been a month and three days. How much longer before I start asking questions? And how?
You seem to be on a hot streak of predicting the future...... wanna share the lotto numbers?The wait begins, might be looking at the same screen on the 17/9
Or get lucky like some others here, I have not had a stroke of it lately, my last 4 German orders have been a month.
I’ve got one that’s been sitting at Frankfurt since 7/8.
The order from bikeinn shipped with Aus post got to Sydney in 6 days, hasn’t moved once it arrived though.
I’ve found all shipping hit and miss at the moment. Even interstate packages are taking 2 weeks min these days
rowdyflat
chez le médecin
Never in 20 years of buying stuff have I had a delivery problem .
Aust Post has now lost 2 in a row , so slow I wont buy anything more until its sorted.
It would be easier speaking to the dead than communicating with Aust Post who now use the Telstra model which is ,no one can complain so we dont have any problems.
Aust Post has now lost 2 in a row , so slow I wont buy anything more until its sorted.
It would be easier speaking to the dead than communicating with Aust Post who now use the Telstra model which is ,no one can complain so we dont have any problems.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Driving through industrial estates, it surprising how many previously empty warehouses Auspost has started using. I think tracking/progression through the network is shithouse because parcels aren't necessarily going through the normal channels. If your parcel is in a batch that went for pre-sorting in a random off-site warehouse it possibly drops of the network until someone at that warehouse decides to pick it up and shove it in a truck or van going somewhere (at which point it would get scanned and "exist" again).
Problem being, if someone tests COVID-positive or become Tier-whatever contact of somebody with it - those off-grid sites could shut for several weeks without showing where the packages currently are. The good thing (overall) is it'd only effects one little link of the chain.
Personally I think AusPost are in a catch-22 situation. If they relied only on their traditional network with the current demand they'd be totally snowed under anyway, and if they then got a COVID case in one of them it would be a disaster - you'd have weeks worth of freight backed up and it would take even longer to clear the backlog.
Problem being, if someone tests COVID-positive or become Tier-whatever contact of somebody with it - those off-grid sites could shut for several weeks without showing where the packages currently are. The good thing (overall) is it'd only effects one little link of the chain.
Personally I think AusPost are in a catch-22 situation. If they relied only on their traditional network with the current demand they'd be totally snowed under anyway, and if they then got a COVID case in one of them it would be a disaster - you'd have weeks worth of freight backed up and it would take even longer to clear the backlog.