Ozpost mail redirect

[ozwinner]

At the shop we get maybe 3 bills per month on average, we dont have a letter box so we asked the guy in the house next door if it was ok to get our bills delivered into his letter box.

This was 18 months ago, and everything was ok until recently.
But now its a hassle for him for some reason, so much so that he has been sending the bills back to the sender, or just hanging on to them.

Solution?
Get the mail redirected to our home address, simple.
I went to the post office yesterday with form in hand to pay for the redirect, we were told it would be slightly dearer to do as we are a business.

The rate per 3 months for reidential is $20, we wanted to do it for 12 months so figured it would cost maybe $100-$150 with the extra for being in business.

Wrong !!

Try $390!! :eek: :eek:

Needless to say I didnt do it.

Al :mad:

[Christopha]

Get a mailbox at the Post Office, costs $17 for 12 months....

[Ashore]

Change your mailing address with the billers and get them sent to your home address cost SFA

[Auld Bassoon]

Change your mailing address with the billers and get them sent to your home address cost SFA

Exactly!

[oges]

you dont have a mailbox in that collection somewhere?

[Groggy]

Pay the neighbour the $20?

[Stuart]

Get your bills changed to online ones that get emailed to you, and the money you save will afford some firecrackers for said neighbour's letterbox. How hard for him to say that the arrangement doesn't suit anymore, rather than returning to sender? Keeping them - isn't that an offence?

[ozwinner]

Get your bills changed to online ones that get emailed to you, and the money you save will afford some firecrackers for said neighbour's letterbox. How hard for him to say that the arrangement doesn't suit anymore, rather than returning to sender? Keeping them - isn't that an offence?

The neighbour is a proffesional layabout.
Ive tryed to give him work as a labourer, but he cant do more than one day in a row.

Life is just too hard for him.

Al

[Cliff Rogers]

....Life is just too hard for him.....

Have some fun with the jerk, stick a made up name & his address on very junk mail list that you can.
In the mean time, just tell the senders that matter your new address.
A PO box in a private name is cheap & you can get your work mail sent to it. IE. take out a small box in your name 'Al Blogs' & then tell your senders to post to 'Crapirium P/L' PO Box xxx etc. That is what we do & it costs about $40 a year.
Here is another tip, pick a Post Office that is not out of your way, has easy parking & is not as busy as bugg'ry in case you have to go inside to pick up a carton of timber that won't fit in the box.
Don't pick one that you go past out of hours that is out of your way during normal hours in case you have to go inside to pick up a carton of timber.
Before you take out a box with them, go in a couple of times to sus them out, some PO operators are worse than your crook neighbour.

[Groggy]

Have some fun with the jerk, stick a made up name & his address on very junk mail list that you can.

Yes Officer Obie, I put that envelope under that pile of garbage. You can get anything you want ....

[Zed]

why should he be your mailbox ? just coz he's lazy....:confused:
i reckon change your mail address with your contacts is the easiest - screw Oz post.

[Cliff Rogers]

Yes Officer Obie, I put that envelope under that pile of garbage. You can get anything you want ....

Close but no cigar.....
"Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the police officer's station.

Now friends, .....

You get the picture.

[Bob Willson]

Work for Australia Post. Redirections are free! Mind you, it is just about the only thing that Oz Post does give to it's workers for free. Scungy buggers.

[ernknot]

Post office franchises are not free. I had to pay for redirection. If they are then alot of people are getting robbed. My local post office is very helpful. When I have to go away for a time I ask them to hold my mail and when I come back every thing is crammed ( by a 4x4 ) in the mail box and it is a devil of a job to get it out with out tearing up the letters.

[Cliff Rogers]

... When I have to go away for a time I ask them to hold my mail and when I come back every thing is crammed ....

As I said.... "some PO operators are worse than your crook neighbour."