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Ordered 2 cartons of good stuff from epiQure (does anyone else find that hard to spell? :) ).

One arrived at local Post Office; it had an Australia Post label, with a con note# and 'Tracking ID" and "2 of 2" on the AP label. So 2 pieces of evidence (my order, and AP's lable) says there was a carton missing. Local PO said I had to call the AP 13... number to find the missing one. Long story short:


  • Over the course of about an hour, between first answerer and a 'supervisor', Australia Post refused to acknowledge to me that there were 2 cartons in the consignment and that one was missing. They said because of 'privacy' (oh, for God's sake :evil: ) they couldn't reveal to me exactly what was sent by their 'client' (epiQure, the sender). Told me I had to make the running, call epiQure and get THEM to lodge a tracking request, notwithstanding that AP would know from their own tracking that 2 cartons were initially picked up and only 1 delivered to me. At this point that was a (pretty good) assumption on my part, but born out by the later calls:


  • I called epiQure. Very nice person there listened to the story. Immediately offered to replace the missing carton, no questions asked :eek: . I asked them to call AP, as I didn't want AP to simply be off the hook for mis-placing a carton (apparently, to that point).


  • Got a call back from epiQure after about 30 mins. Australia Post had admitted that lost the carton somewhere (without the need apparently for any additional 'tracing'), exactly as was obvious before, but not admitted to me. epiQure then said they had already put an order in for the missing carton to be replaced and sent to me. I hope they charged AP for it!

Big thumbs up to epiQure for service to promptly replace the customer what they ordered, easy-peasy, in spite of the bungling by their delivery service :D.

As for Australia Post ... excrable performance.
 
Lost... stolen is my guess.

Is it just me or has AP gotten worse lately? These days they just dump packages at my door where as once upon a time they would have carded it.
 
Lost... stolen is my guess.

Is it just me or has AP gotten worse lately? These days they just dump packages at my door where as once upon a time they would have carded it.

The joys of working with contractors.
 
Yeah all or most posties now don't work for the PO, they subby for someone else who is a subby for another mob - who likely subbies for the crowd who got the contract to deliver for the PO.
I'm lucky mine is a real gem - top chick who knows a few of us in the street - one or two houses get parcel deliveries almost daily, and she's quick with a wave and a laugh. Some of the previous drivers were a bit on the iffy side..

Got to be happy with epiqure's response though, likely not the first time it has happened
 
More likely the misplaced article will miraculously appear at the postmans' Christmas party.

I am getting a bit sick too of being served by surly staff at AP with great big ugly tattoos. I'm not sure why professional appearance is no longer a requirement.
 
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Got to be happy with epiqure's response though, likely not the first time it has happened
SOmehow I have a feeling there's some insurance inherent in the base price.

ZTo put it another way, there's a $50 basic liability and - I'm sure epiQure have an agreement providing a greater amount.
 
We know one of our delivery guys pretty well. He's very good and usually just leaves stuff. We do however have someone else who insists on carding things even when we know we were here. I always authorise epiqure to leave the delivery.
 
Our regular AP delivery contractor is great: he knows where to leave stuff out of sight and it's never any trouble for him.
Staff at our local PO is the same - they'll go out of their way to help and always friendly. This week for example I mistakenly filled out the wrong pre-paid package - she just got the right one out and didn't charge me for the wrong-un.
The manager there retired last year (after 44 years with AP - would've been PMG when he started!) and I took him a couple of nice bottles in a gift pack on his last day - there were plenty of other gifts there for him…
 
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