[Australia] Auspost halt on incoming items by sea - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2022, 08:00:27 am
content: https://auspost.com.au/service-updates/international-service-updatesApparently I'm a week late to the party. It's going to be interesting to see this play out.I have several items outstanding from Aliexpress & eBay. I wonder if they'll get rerouted to airmail or not (depends who is footing the bill of storing it in transit I guess).

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2022, 11:10:12 am
content: QuoteI would be interested in knowing what kind of items they are talking about.

author: SmallCog
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2022, 11:19:52 am
content: Quotehttps://www.news.com.au/national/australia-post-suspends-sea-mail-amid-prohibited-item-concerns/news-story/1ee350bb63a8ec8ffd553e604e04c6b3] https://www.news.com.au/national/australia-post-suspends-sea-mail-amid-prohibited-item-concerns/news-story/1ee350bb63a8ec8ffd553e604e04c6b3Anything outstanding should turn up eventuallySeems reading between the lines they can’t keep up with the screening so they’ve turned the tap offMost mail is by air anyway

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2022, 11:22:22 am
content: Speculation:A scatter of Auspost workers try to get to their sorting machines, but no packages are flowing into them. Everything is blocked at the other end of the room where the burly ABF offices are murmuring sounds of disappointment and shaking their heads."What sort of things are you guys finding today?" asks one particularly skinny Auspost worker."PROHIBITED ITEMS" grunts the ABF employee holding an assault rifle. He points it at the packages and growls."So what sort of stuff?""PROHIBITED ITEMS""Drugs? Guns? Lasers?""PROHIBITED ITEMS"

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 12:02:38 am
content: That's a good one. Very clever.

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 12:18:42 am
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on October 08, 2022, 11:10:12 amTobacco trying to bypass excist duty apparently. I remember reading that, but I can't find the mention any more. Maybe Auspost redacted their webpage. It was reported on ABC or The Guardian.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 12:25:12 am
content: Tobacco, weapons, drugs, restricted medications, you name it. People try their luck and post that stuff.

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 01:27:48 am
content: Orange multimeters, black topped chips, Timtams made with maize sugar, ...I've only ever had one package cut open for ABF inspection before. They put a note inside it and taped it back up. I suspect it was because the description was wildly different to the contents (probably a stuff up or mistranslation by the seller).On that note: I had an "adult toys" package come in once from China. I can't remember what was inside (probably latching switches -- they can be pretty exciting).

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 08:15:22 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on October 09, 2022, 12:25:12 amIt is effectivel aphysicalDDoS attack

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 08:25:50 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on October 09, 2022, 12:25:12 amSource of the info?

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 08:29:06 am
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on October 09, 2022, 08:25:50 amHow abouthttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439351/?

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 07:56:07 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on October 09, 2022, 08:29:06 amI have no doubt it's worth disrupting businesses and people's lives for some tobacco.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 08:06:35 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 09, 2022, 07:56:07 pmNot tobacco; that's merely incidental. The disruption is for money, and any/every vector is sufficient

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 08:23:15 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on October 09, 2022, 08:29:06 amNo TV here since long, long time ago. Will listen to this instead:Every Little Movement

author: Whales
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 10:01:14 pm
content: Illegal cigarettes imports makes sense, we tax them heavily as an anti-smoking measure (circa $30 and up per packet? I'm the wrong person to ask).

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 09, 2022, 10:03:03 pm
content: Quote from: tggzzz on October 09, 2022, 08:06:35 pmYeah. I'm wondering what is making the most disruption at the moment though...

author: Geoff-AU
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2022, 12:02:17 pm
content: Quote from: Whales on October 09, 2022, 01:27:48 amMe too. It was a Rick Astley vinyl single I bought in order to play a prank on a friend.Now I'm on adifferentlist.....

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2022, 06:51:51 pm
content: Quote from: Geoff-AU on October 10, 2022, 12:02:17 pm

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2022, 02:46:41 am
content: One hit wonder hey? I think he never thought that his music would be still relevant nowardays, although not for the reasons he expected.Heck when I was a kid my mom bought me a a Casio Electronic Piano and the demo mode was that his music.