Amazing delivery

[Sir Stinkalot]

I sent a couple of Australia Post satchels from Adelaide to Melbourne last week. The fist one I provided the buyer with the tracking number. Out of interest I plugged in the tracking number to find only two entries, listing the morning it arrived in Melbourne and then it being delivered the same afternoon.

The second buyer contacted me saying that his tracking number was invalid. Sure enough it wasn't registering on the AP site. I had to try and convince the buyer it had been sent and shouldn't be far off. I explained the situation with the tracking number of the other buyer. Sure enough the same thing happened. The tracking number only became active when it arrived in Melbourne in the morning and it was delivered that afternoon.

Fortunately the delivery was within the expected time frames. The tracking numbers are just a waste of time.

[Vernonv]

I use a few of the 500g stachels (normal ones, not express) and they always appear on the tracking site as soon as I've purchased them (well when I check 10 or 15 minutes later). I assumed that they scan them at the counter and technology takes care of the rest.

[Sir Stinkalot]

I use a few of the 500g stachels (normal ones, not express) and they always appear on the tracking site as soon as I've purchased them (well when I check 10 or 15 minutes later). I assumed that they scan them at the counter and technology takes care of the rest.

Mine were normal ones, not express. Both purchased over the counter (at different post offices) but posted in a street box at a later time. I can only suspect that there was an issue with scanning the satchels at the Adelaide sorting centre and dispatch centre at the airport (if they are different). Both were scanned and registered on arrival in Melbourne and then again when delivered.

Fortunately the delivery times were fine, just not the registering and tracking. It just makes it hard when the buyer is starting question your honesty / integrity as a seller as the tracking number you provided isn't showing up. I know if I was the buyer I would be starting to think I have lost my money on the purchase.

[Big Shed]

Apparently Mr Fahour has spat the dummy and resigned

Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour resigns, despite profit rebound - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[bueller]

Probably jumped before he was pushed. Absurd amount of money for a government employee to earn.

[Bob38S]

When the bright light of scrutiny is shone into the so called not in the public interest areas it is not surprising when what was there scuttles away.

PS, he's due for a $4.3 million retirement "bonus" when he turns 60. Not sure how he'll go getting a pension.

[Chris Parks]

Probably jumped before he was pushed. Absurd amount of money for a government employee to earn.

I don't blame him and he is not a government employee.

[bueller]

I don't blame him and he is not a government employee.

Semantics. It's a government owned entity.

[bueller]

So it looks like the government actually revoked the the board's ability to set the salary for the managing director of Aus Post, his replacement will be earning around a million once hired.

[Big Shed]

Trouble with that scenario is that there are already quite a few execs at Auspost that earn well above that level.

[Chris Parks]

The government really stuffed this one, who is silly enough to take a pay drop for a promotion? AP salary structure and the bonus system they work on is totally stuffed and has been for years. Who else would pay performance bonuses to their compensation dept execs to ensure they kept the claims down?

[Big Shed]

Who else would pay performance bonuses to their compensation dept execs to ensure they kept the claims down?

Cominsure and most other insurance companies I guess.

[Chris Parks]

Do they, you know this for a fact? I find the whole concept appalling to tell the truth. I had to fight them for 18 months after I was forced to pay and finance all my own recovery from a shoulder operation and in the end it cost them over 100K but if they had accepted the claim it would have been about 90K less. The lawyers got rich and I saw nothing except reimbursement of all expenses and sick leave.

[Big Shed]

It was certainly reported in the case of Cominsure not that long ago Chris, I have always understood that to be normal procedure in the insurance industry.