The Phar Lap Postie

[Tiger650]

Just outside Albury, property is on a residential street with a short steep path from street level to front door.
What is described below has happened twice and twice more I have intercepted The Phar Lap Postie before he could make good his escape.

At 08.18 today expecting a package from Cleavers, received an email from Auspost stating that they had tried to deliver but nobody home, patent BS as Wife and I were both up and about as was the furry trespasser alarm cattle Dog bitch.

I immediately filed an online complaint with Auspost calling BS on the nobody home thing, magically at 0900 The Phar lap Postie appeared with the package !

I will flat out say it, this sort of thing never occured until we got sub-continental Posties, I do not see things improving as employment "must" be found for special categories of people.

[Wapiti]

Suck it up mate. Government employees are hired on percentages of ethnic variety, not skill, experience or IQ.
Doing the opposite will see you vilified on a 4-Corners episode.

[Die Judicii]

Yeah, I have also had the “Tried to deliver but no-one home” bullsh!t. Half a dozen times. Once in particular it was the same scenario as yourself,,, I was waiting for the parcel, and physically seated on a chair just inside the wide open front door. They are nothing but lazy lying bastards. Almost as bad as the Labour Party.

[Die Judicii]

What i forgot to mention was that these particular “posties” are not made of any real substance, because they don’t show up on the security cameras. Now that’s a bit odd isn’t it ???

[fussy]

This is why Oz post went paperless. They no longer have to go to your address to stick in a note to say they were there, they can do it online!
Without ever moving from the comfort of their office.
Bottom line, they are taking money under false pretences by claiming a fee and failing to deliver.

[Fester]

Our posties are pretty good, but one of the private Indians just threw my parcel at the front veranda as I heard it land.
Our street only has houses on one side, and he is still too stupid to read the numbers, as I heard other parcels landing one day, addressed to 2 houses down.
The 3-figure numbers must have been a bit much for Raji; it looked like fancy stuff that could have broken.

I sent a contact message and suggested they drop him for AusPost.

[Wapiti]

Our posties try pretty hard. We have an agreement where i don't have to sign for "signature required" stuff as well.
We're never around anyway to sign, and some of the driveways are a km long. So things are different out here.
My letterbox is pretty big, at a height they don't have to bend, with a big roof to keep things dry.
They just got a new Hilux ute to deliver our (farming community) stuff, I first saw it and thought hmmmm where's the bullbar.
After a couple of weeks the front was smashed in by a big skip and it was wrecked. The new one now has a steel bullbar, siderails and steps.
The mail must be delivered!

[Tiger650]

Cheers Blokes
My online complaints both resulted in an immediate 180 deg turn by the Phar Lap Postie and delivery that day, the latest within an hour.
The online complaint process is easy, even for an ancient Luddite like myself and the buggers are obviously told immediately, hopefully they learn which addresses not to scam.
Probably the complaint process will be made effectively unworkable, like online crime reports in NSW you will be required to wait for a text code which arrives several hours later if at all.