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They have also suspended deliveries to Australia.

sen 5y ago
Yeah I couldn’t figure out why my US deliveries were failing to show up until I checked my junk mail and noticed messages saying all my orders had been cancelled (from multiple online stores) and I had to contact each one separately to arrange refunds. Online shopping is a clusterfuck lately of no stock and shipping issues, and unrelated-but-relevant, Gmails spam filtering lately is atrocious.
- peterburkimsher 5y ago
  More data points from New Zealand, 2021: 36 parcels delivered, 11 parcels undelivered Packet loss rate: 23% From the US, 3 months: SparkFun: I placed an order on 2021-05-23, it arrived on 2021-08-16. Worse, the NS73M FM transmitter and the Raspberry Pi Zero W inside don't even work. From the US: Nooelec: I ordered an SDR on 2021-06-09, and it still hasn't arrived. From the US: 4 parcels from eBay sellers were delivered. From China: From AliExpress, out of 31 orders, 5 of them have not been delivered. I tried to appeal one of them, AliExpress insist that it was delivered and refused to refund. Therefore I now have no recourse but to write negative feedback when parcels aren't delivered before the 90-day feedback deadline. From China: From eBay: 4 undelivered (order dates between 2021-07-31 and 2021-08-14), 2 delivered. From Hong Kong: From eBay: 1 undelivered (order date 2021-06-28) From Germany: From eBay: 1 undelivered (order date 2021-07-06) From Lithuania: From eBay: 1 delivered (order date 2021-02-05, delivered before 2021-03-19) From Taiwan: a Christmas present arrived from my girlfriend in about 3 weeks. A birthday present from my girlfriend arrived very quickly, in about 10 days! From France: a birthday present from parents arrived after about 3 weeks, thankfully just in time. Another parcel from them included an eBay order from France to France that was delivered quickly. From Switzerland: another birthday present from parents, arrived after 6 weeks. They'd taken it to Geneva airport because they thought it would be quicker.
- bbarnett 5y ago
  Probably gmail wants you to click on "not spam" for each, so they can verify you actually have a relationship with each miscategorized(on purpose) email sender.
- philsnow 5y ago
  > Gmails spam filtering lately is atrocious. I've gotten 3-4 emails in my inbox in the last week that all are 'from' a different Russian / eastern European woman, have body text == the very short subject line, and have a pdf attachment. It feels like 2003 levels of spam filtering, but I haven't looked in my spam folder to see what it is blocking.
  - 101008 5y ago
    Same case here. Also as if they shared a Google Doc with me and left a comment tagging me and so I received an email.
dustintrex 5y ago
This is because Australia currently prohibits Australian from leaving and drastically limits the number of people allowed to enter, meaning that flight capacity has been slashed accordingly. They're planning to finally start opening up (to citizens only for starters) in November.
- chris_wot 5y ago
  Correct.

sen 5y ago

Yeah I couldn’t figure out why my US deliveries were failing to show up until I checked my junk mail and noticed messages saying all my orders had been cancelled (from multiple online stores) and I had to contact each one separately to arrange refunds. Online shopping is a clusterfuck lately of no stock and shipping issues, and unrelated-but-relevant, Gmails spam filtering lately is atrocious.

peterburkimsher 5y ago
More data points from New Zealand, 2021: 36 parcels delivered, 11 parcels undelivered Packet loss rate: 23% From the US, 3 months: SparkFun: I placed an order on 2021-05-23, it arrived on 2021-08-16. Worse, the NS73M FM transmitter and the Raspberry Pi Zero W inside don't even work. From the US: Nooelec: I ordered an SDR on 2021-06-09, and it still hasn't arrived. From the US: 4 parcels from eBay sellers were delivered. From China: From AliExpress, out of 31 orders, 5 of them have not been delivered. I tried to appeal one of them, AliExpress insist that it was delivered and refused to refund. Therefore I now have no recourse but to write negative feedback when parcels aren't delivered before the 90-day feedback deadline. From China: From eBay: 4 undelivered (order dates between 2021-07-31 and 2021-08-14), 2 delivered. From Hong Kong: From eBay: 1 undelivered (order date 2021-06-28) From Germany: From eBay: 1 undelivered (order date 2021-07-06) From Lithuania: From eBay: 1 delivered (order date 2021-02-05, delivered before 2021-03-19) From Taiwan: a Christmas present arrived from my girlfriend in about 3 weeks. A birthday present from my girlfriend arrived very quickly, in about 10 days! From France: a birthday present from parents arrived after about 3 weeks, thankfully just in time. Another parcel from them included an eBay order from France to France that was delivered quickly. From Switzerland: another birthday present from parents, arrived after 6 weeks. They'd taken it to Geneva airport because they thought it would be quicker.
bbarnett 5y ago
Probably gmail wants you to click on "not spam" for each, so they can verify you actually have a relationship with each miscategorized(on purpose) email sender.
philsnow 5y ago
> Gmails spam filtering lately is atrocious. I've gotten 3-4 emails in my inbox in the last week that all are 'from' a different Russian / eastern European woman, have body text == the very short subject line, and have a pdf attachment. It feels like 2003 levels of spam filtering, but I haven't looked in my spam folder to see what it is blocking.
- 101008 5y ago
  Same case here. Also as if they shared a Google Doc with me and left a comment tagging me and so I received an email.

dustintrex 5y ago

This is because Australia currently prohibits Australian from leaving and drastically limits the number of people allowed to enter, meaning that flight capacity has been slashed accordingly. They're planning to finally start opening up (to citizens only for starters) in November.

chris_wot 5y ago
Correct.