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Having moved from Australia to the UK, I can tell you the delivery services I've used so far (Yodel, DPD etc) are far superior than any service in Australia. Th

by mirsadm 11y ago

Having moved from Australia to the UK, I can tell you the delivery services I've used so far (Yodel, DPD etc) are far superior than any service in Australia. They even deliver on Saturdays and Sundays. That's amazing.

jon-wood 11y ago
You're the first person I've ever heard compare Yodel favourably to anything, deliveries must be truly awful in Australia!
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  I order way, way too much stuff in Australia, here's a summary: AusPost: Our national carrier, realised a few years ago that no one's sending letters any more and "pivoted" to parcel delivery. Parcel Lockers [0] are a "new" innovation here but heaven help you if you try to get a courier parcel into one. Royal Mail = Good, DHL = Bad in this case and you might not even know until the seller receives the parcel back. Fedex: Sorry, we missed you. (And the nearest depot is 30+ minutes away somewhere where buses don't go and you can only collect after 4 on weekdays) DHL: Sorry, we missed you. UPS: Sorry, we missed you (or handed your parcel off to StarTrack, in which case it'll go to a parcel locker, but you'll never know if this is actually going to happen) USPS, Royal Mail etc: Handed off to AusPost, can go to a parcel locker. StarTrack: More expensive, more blue version of AusPost - semi private (?), the only courier that AusPost will let into the lockers Toll: Sorry we missed you, there's a redelivery fee in a lot of cases. Tried to start up a Parcel Locker competitor and then didn't expand to many locations [1]. The website returned 500 errors for the first 6 months of its existence. Amazon: We're not going to actually tell you who is carrying your parcel because we outsourced it to iParcel who sometimes use UPS and sometimes use AusPost. Send an Amazon (US/UK/DE) parcel to an AusPost locker at your own peril eBay: Most Aussie sellers use AusPost, so that works, but for some reason overseas orders go through some kind of Pitney Bowes reseller - see UPS, DHL, FedEx, Amazon above. [0]: http://lockers.auspost.com.au http://lockers.auspost.com.au [1]: http://parcelpoint.com.au http://parcelpoint.com.au

by mirsadm 11y ago

jon-wood 11y ago

You're the first person I've ever heard compare Yodel favourably to anything, deliveries must be truly awful in Australia!

voltagex_ 11y ago
I order way, way too much stuff in Australia, here's a summary: AusPost: Our national carrier, realised a few years ago that no one's sending letters any more and "pivoted" to parcel delivery. Parcel Lockers [0] are a "new" innovation here but heaven help you if you try to get a courier parcel into one. Royal Mail = Good, DHL = Bad in this case and you might not even know until the seller receives the parcel back. Fedex: Sorry, we missed you. (And the nearest depot is 30+ minutes away somewhere where buses don't go and you can only collect after 4 on weekdays) DHL: Sorry, we missed you. UPS: Sorry, we missed you (or handed your parcel off to StarTrack, in which case it'll go to a parcel locker, but you'll never know if this is actually going to happen) USPS, Royal Mail etc: Handed off to AusPost, can go to a parcel locker. StarTrack: More expensive, more blue version of AusPost - semi private (?), the only courier that AusPost will let into the lockers Toll: Sorry we missed you, there's a redelivery fee in a lot of cases. Tried to start up a Parcel Locker competitor and then didn't expand to many locations [1]. The website returned 500 errors for the first 6 months of its existence. Amazon: We're not going to actually tell you who is carrying your parcel because we outsourced it to iParcel who sometimes use UPS and sometimes use AusPost. Send an Amazon (US/UK/DE) parcel to an AusPost locker at your own peril eBay: Most Aussie sellers use AusPost, so that works, but for some reason overseas orders go through some kind of Pitney Bowes reseller - see UPS, DHL, FedEx, Amazon above. [0]: http://lockers.auspost.com.au http://lockers.auspost.com.au [1]: http://parcelpoint.com.au http://parcelpoint.com.au