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Why are private courier services and companies so fucking dogshit?
Five days a parcel I’m waiting on has sat in ~~TNTs~~ FedEx’s Redbank depot. Five fucking days.
We just get everything delivered to work which has greatly reduced any courier issues.
Unfortunately Australia Post still contracts out runs to the lowest bidder and now the bloke who delivers to our work address turns up at all sorts of crazy hours... 9pm is not uncommon.
On the one hand, you've got to admire the guy for putting in the hours to get it done.
On the other hand, it's a massive piss off because all our deliveries handled by Australia Post now need to get collected because obviously no one is at work when he rocks up.
This has the side effect of things that used to turn up first thing Monday AM are instead getting dropped off for collection on Tuesday at some point - typically around midday. So then you go and collect and now it's too late to use for a job on Tuesday so you have to postpone until Wednesday.