What the hell are Australia Post up to? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:25:43 am
content: What the hell are Australia Post up to?Last Wednesday I sent a parcel from the northern suburbs of Melbourne with a destination of Ballarat along with parcel tracking and just checked its progress and found that it is currently sitting at a mail lodgement facility in Chullora NSW.Dickheads.Not the first either.http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/australia-post-parcels-doing-laps-of-australia-before-delivery-20160510-goqncy.html

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:50:01 am
content: If you really get pissed off - I heard on NPR yesterday that Australia has the best prison system in the world(best for prisoners)

author: Alexei.Polkhanov
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 12:59:17 am
content: Is "going postal" in Australia means same thing as in US?

author: rs20
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 01:12:07 am
content: I'm not necessarily defending these specific route choices, but:-- If there's a plane from LAX to JFK, and a plane from JFK to SFO; then who are you to say that that's not the best way from them to deliver a package from LAX to SFO? The parcel doesn't have feelings, nor does it get uncomfortable on a plane. If (and I know this is a big if) they deliver the package within the promised time period, then who cares how they did it? A hub-and-spoke model is self-evidently more efficient than a O(n^2) model.-- You know, maybe they takeallthe mail to Sydney, sort it there, and then send it to where it needs to go. I'm not saying that they actually do this, but under some circumstances and cost functions that could be an optimal approach; despite your desires for your package to take a first-class magic carpet directly to its destination.-- Also, I heard that DHL will preferentially chuck a parcel on a plane going not-exactly-the-right-way rather than leave it in the warehouse. To keep parcels moving, to provide an illusion of progress, to prevent warehouses being overfilled, etc.As a software engineer, I know that any mailing system I designed would probably do nutty stuff like this from time to time, purely because it's irrational for me to specifically add something to my cost function to prevent it. The goal is "get package X to location Y by time Z", not "have package X always get locally closer and closer to Y". Imperfect OCR failing to read addresses correctly on the first try just adds even more complications to the story.

author: ludzinc
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 01:51:15 am
content: Quote from: Alexei.Polkhanov on August 26, 2016, 12:59:17 amUnfortunately it does....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Street_massacre

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 02:52:44 am
content: To make you happyhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-26/australia-post-returns-to-profit/7787466Latest news ...

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 03:04:00 am
content: That might explain it then, the dickheads at Australia Post have engaged the use of drongos or similar.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 07:20:31 am
content: Use the phrase "Going postal" in Australia - and we immediately think of somewhere just south of Canada.

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 08:48:10 am
content: Yeh , normally people just go "OFF" if that's normal that is Ha Ha Ha , hardly ever heard Going Postal unless on the TV counts and its American content .

author: ludzinc
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 09:07:57 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 26, 2016, 03:22:23 amInteresting. I'm in my 40's and although not used often it is used to describe when someone's about to go off the deep end, at least in my sphere of influence.Next you'll tell me no one ever uses the term "Troppo" anymore.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 10:00:19 am
content: Quote from: ludzinc on August 26, 2016, 09:07:57 amI think the expression will infiltrate Aussie culture over time ... such as is happening with the term 'cookie'. I blame Sesame Street for that import.QuoteI can't say I've heard it used much of late... but I still am very familiar with it.

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 10:23:43 am
content: Perhaps the wacko fruit loops at Australia Post felt it was necessary to send my parcel up to Sydney for an xray examination or something as the fellow at the post office did ask what was in the box, I told him it was an electronics device when in fact it was a shit house piece of crap faulty multimeter that I was returning to the supplier/ distributor/ the mob flogging it.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 02:05:21 pm
content: There is a service here from UPS that they oxymoronically call "SmartPost". They pick up the package normally, but then send it to a holding facility. They let it sit there long enough to be sure the delivery takes longer than their normal (more expensive) "Ground" service, usually 3-4 days, then take it to your local Post Office for actual delivery.

author: MT
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 02:23:20 pm
content: AU post is fine compared toPOSTNORDthe Danish-Swedish joint venture disaster, recently media found out POSTNORD mailmenshad been ordered by head office not to call customers when parcel was on its way to be delivered instead keep shut and just pass by customers.I put'ed an order at Farnell Wednesday from EU central stock,usually it takes 2 days, Friday no parcel, will be exiting to see if it arrives at Monday but i doubth!DHL throwing packages around in Sweden and in a AU airport! :beer:http://tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/56438?service=embedded&statsAutoStart=false&showrelated=trueFor example if i send a happy birth day card to my neighbor on across the street (20meters) that card goes to Stockholm to be sorted and when my neighbor finally get the card it has been on a 400km detour!No, Sweden is not a socialist state but famous for its political correctness and world wide export of moral standard consensuses!

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 10:22:37 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 26, 2016, 10:03:02 amHam radio operators here that are into VHF/UHF weak signal stuff use the word Troppo for Tropospheric ducting.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 26, 2016, 10:44:11 pm
content: "We're off to see the Wizard! The wonderful Wizard of...where the hell were we going again?"

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 27, 2016, 07:07:18 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 26, 2016, 01:15:14 amSo should they just let the kid spit at them and harm himself and tear apart everything in his cell?The courts making life impossible for the people who have to deal with kids like this won't improve matters. You will just drive away the good cops and be left with people who treat him far worse, but are better at manipulating the system to get away with it. What will not happen is the impossible, ie. fairy tale magic making it impossible for kids to arise who are uncorrectable by anything but force and deprivation of their freedom.My sister works with mentally handicapped so this is close to my heart, she is lucky to work in an institution with a large ratio of caretakers to clients. They don't often have to bind down people, they can just spend the time to literally sit on them (with multiple caretakers) until they calm down, but even then it's sometimes necessary. Don't let your bleeding heart take away the tools these people need to do their job. Have some common sense.PS. well there is one kind of magic which will work, dope them into oblivion 24/7.