Australia! Not Austria! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: AmmoJammo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2015, 08:53:58 pm
content: Here's the tracking of an item I orderedhttp://www3.royalmail.com/trackdetails?trackNumber=RS126245269GBI'm very impressed they managed to deliver it to an Australian address, while the item was in Austria...

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 12:20:06 am
content: Yes that is a bit strange.

author: timofonic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 12:59:37 am
content: I may sound stupid, but I don't get it. What was the intended delivery address and origin? Sara you impressed by being a fast send out what?

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 01:18:45 am
content: Quote from: Circuiteromalaguito on September 15, 2015, 12:59:37 amI think that they mean that the package was intended to arrive in Australia, but it was 'delivered' in Austria.

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 01:57:09 am
content: No it came from UK but went to Australia, this was delivered correctly.But they have a bug somewhere in the system and they put Austria on the Tracking details.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 02:05:02 am
content: Oh okay, silly me!

author: Melt-O-Tronic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 03:43:32 am
content: What's the big deal? They're practically the same place.

author: AmmoJammo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 06:26:32 am
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on September 15, 2015, 01:57:09 amI don't think so...It never arrived to me in Australia, so I have to assume it was delivered to someone in Austria!Who is probably very confused...

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 06:36:02 am
content: I thought I had it work out, but it seems I was wrong.Quote from: AmmoJammo on September 14, 2015, 08:53:58 pmQuote from: AmmoJammo on September 15, 2015, 06:26:32 amThese statements seem to contradict each other.

author: AmmoJammo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 06:45:20 am
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on September 15, 2015, 06:36:02 amQuote from: AmmoJammo on September 14, 2015, 08:53:58 pm

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 07:37:01 am
content: Maybe they'd be better of writing 'Straya instead of Australia?

author: android
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 07:38:31 am
content: I can beat that...California to Sydney, thence to New York via Jamaica () ...still hasn't arrived (permanently) in Sinny.

author: AmmoJammo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 07:41:32 am
content: Hey, at least yours isn't "delivered" in the wrong country!

author: android
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 07:53:54 am
content: It just got worse...

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 08:12:58 am
content: Quote from: amyk on September 15, 2015, 05:21:47 amLol and for those who don't actually know, the label pointing to London, really points to Norwich which is over 100 miles away from London.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 08:57:12 am
content: Quote from: android on September 15, 2015, 07:38:31 amLet's break this down. Jamaica is the name of a district in New York that houses a mail sorting hub. I've seen that name before, too, and wondered what it was. Departed from Sydney looks very much like a glitch in the system. So the real question is what your item is doing in Dubai, at least assuming that's not a glitch too. Maybe it's actually more economical to have an eastbound mail route, partly to use the winds as efficiently as possible, partly to place routes where the biggest volume of mail is transported. It's speculation, but I don't think it seems too implausible.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 01:34:04 pm
content: At least you didn't use Australia Post. You would never get the parcel, because they would "lose" it. Australia Post is made up of incompetent bunch of dunderheads O0 who could not run a BBQ, let alone of parcel service. Why do I despise Australia Post them? They cost me over $100K. And they have a habit of "losing" parcels.

author: Mark
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 05:52:06 pm
content: Someone once shipped a package from US to me in Ireland and thought they would guess the country code as "IL". The rest of the shipping address was present and correct, but you guessed it... "your package has arrived in the Tel Aviv sorting facility"What surprised me the most was that the tracking website showed this information for a day or so, then removed it from the tracking history, so I could only see that it had left USA, not where it was or had been...

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 06:04:53 pm
content: A reliable surplus-parts vendor in Germany shipped some hard-to-find parts to me in Chicago (USA), with the correct address. I don't remember if it was someone at Deutsche Post or at DHL who read the "CH" in Chicago as the normal country code for "Switzerland", but it arrived at Swiss Customs who could not find Chicago in their country. By the time it came back to the vendor, he had already shipped me a replacement package.As two asides, Mark Twain once referred to Berlin as the "Chicago of Europe", and some refer to Toronto as "Chicago run by the Swiss", but there is no Chicago in Switzerland.

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 06:51:27 pm
content: Wow - I though my PCBs going from Watford to Dover via Glasgow was bad

author: AmmoJammo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 09:03:23 pm
content: The company is reshipping my order now...I really do wonder how someone managed to deliver an item in the wrong country....

author: isaiahA
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2015, 10:36:37 pm
content: hopefully you get your package soon