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#2601982 11-Nov-2020 17:37

Given the number of promotional emails from them recently, sales must be seriously down!

I have tried another using AliExpress Standard Shipping.

UBI show: (Via Trackingmore)

2020-11-06 10:48:00 DEPARTED FROM ORIGIN PORT,SHENZHEN

Canaio show:

Airline departed from original country 2020-11-02 11:18:39

So it left twice four days apart!

Don't know where the next stop is, no updates yet!

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#2601986 11-Nov-2020 17:50

msukiwi:

UBI show: (Via Trackingmore)

2020-11-06 10:48:00 DEPARTED FROM ORIGIN PORT,SHENZHEN

Canaio show:

Airline departed from original country 2020-11-02 11:18:39

So it left twice four days apart!

Don't know where the next stop is, no updates yet!

Interesting, never knew about tracking more.. I just checked on an order of mine

UBI:

2020-11-06 DEPARTED FROM ORIGIN PORT,SHENZHEN

Canaio:

2020-11-02 - Departed country of origin

All the other dates don't match whats on Aliexpress either.. order placed on the 20th of October

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#2602132 11-Nov-2020 19:10

Similar story with mine.

Went for Ali Standard over free. Thinking most said it was a different route/faster than the last miles.. Turns out its STILL Cainiao

Estimated delivery: Oct 23 - Oct 30

Ali/cainiao

2020-10-19 16:26 Delivering
Departed country of origin

2020-10-19 10:26
Departed country of origin

2020-10-16 20:51
Shipment accepted by airline

2020-10-15 16:53
Shipment left country of origin warehouse

2020-10-15 06:25
Shipment at country of origin warehouse

2020-10-14 23:03
Shipment dispatched

Track24 triggers multiple points

RECEIVED SHIPMENT
SHENZHEN
UBI Smart Parcel
16.10.2020
20:51:33

Received by line-haul
AliExpress Standard Shipping
16.10.2020
20:51:33

Received by line-haul
Cainiao
16.10.2020
22:06:38

ITEM DESPATCHED TO TRANSSHIPMENT HUB
SHENZHEN
UBI Smart Parcel
19.10.2020
10:26:44

Hand over to airline
Cainiao
19.10.2020
16:26:44
Airline departed from original country

LYuen

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#2602269 11-Nov-2020 21:12

Parcels are handled by different carriers and they have different interpretation of shipment status.

Say, a parcel that is picked up by 4PX locally and UBI does the international shipment,

4PX can report 'handed over to airline' when they are no longer tracking the parcel, and on other sites 'handed over to airline' could be translated as 'departed from origin country'.

And then UBI, who does the international shipment, will report 'departed from origin country'. But this never means an actual departure, nor means they have secured a spot on upcoming scheduled flights.

'Departed from origin country' only means they have queued your parcel for shipment, or probably queued for custom pre-approval.

This practice is very common. Had a parcel via SG Post months ago, which it must have used direct flight between Singapore and Auckland.

International Arrival at Auckland was 40 days after SGPost has reported flight departure.

When national postal organization also 'fake' tracking information, you can guess what private carriers like UBI will do.

ger0in

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#2603943 15-Nov-2020 00:54

Same here:

Nov 6, 2020 05:48

UBI Logistics

Departed from origin port
SHENZHEN

I got alerted on 2nd of Nov. Not sure how it works.

I think https://postal.ninja/ is the best, it show tracking info from different shipping companies.

ger0in

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#2603944 15-Nov-2020 00:58

larknz: I have had stuff with last mile carrier since end of July. I won't be buying anything from Aliexpress until shipping is sorted

If its Sunyou or Cainiao Super Economy then forget about it. SunYou is not delivering to NZ and Cainiao is using Sunyou to send items internationally.

Use China post and Yanwen, these are reliable

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#2603954 15-Nov-2020 07:29

With a lot of sellers you don't get a choice of carrier

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#2603962 15-Nov-2020 08:15

Oh well, still not a good idea to start buying again?

LYuen

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#2604744 16-Nov-2020 14:19

k1w1k1d:

Oh well, still not a good idea to start buying again?

If you wish to receive it half a year later, so that you get the refund back while still waiting for it.

Off-topic: My purchase on Amazon on 9 November has cleared the custom today.

While my purchase on AliExpress has no update since 13 October.

I thought there would be a race last week

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#2605141 17-Nov-2020 08:11

LYuen:

If you wish to receive it half a year later, so that you get the refund back while still waiting for it.

Standard/Free AliExpress shipping seems to be back to the usual 4-8 weeks AFAICT. Last week I received an item purchased early October. Another item bought about then is with the last-mile courier.

I also had a package I wanted urgently, so paid through the nose for DHL shipping. Tuesday afternoon it was shipped, Friday morning it was in PN. Then sat around the PN office all of Friday and the weekend, delivered Monday. So it took longer to get 40km from PN to my home than it did from China to NZ. :(

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#2605156 17-Nov-2020 08:42

frankv:

LYuen:

If you wish to receive it half a year later, so that you get the refund back while still waiting for it.

Standard/Free AliExpress shipping seems to be back to the usual 4-8 weeks AFAICT. Last week I received an item purchased early October. Another item bought about then is with the last-mile courier.

I also had a package I wanted urgently, so paid through the nose for DHL shipping. Tuesday afternoon it was shipped, Friday morning it was in PN. Then sat around the PN office all of Friday and the weekend, delivered Monday. So it took longer to get 40km from PN to my home than it did from China to NZ. :(

@sbiddle mentioned to some of us recently how shipping prices and times have gone up for items coming from China.

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#2605229 17-Nov-2020 10:03

Yes even DHL is a nightmare at present. Have 3 packages that cost US$800 shipping ex Shenzhen (around 3x normal pricing after recent price increases again) and despite shipping last Fri are still stuck in HKG saying they're delayed. Currently due for delivery here next Tuesday.

The issues with global airfreight capacity to some countries are just getting worse.

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#2607832 20-Nov-2020 19:44

Received two parcels today and have another one with NZ Post ready to send. So maybe the blockages have ended.

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#2607847 20-Nov-2020 21:03

I should have mentioned that one was yanwen economic air mail and the other was Aliexpress standard shipping

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#2607852 20-Nov-2020 21:30

Got my latest Book Depository order today which took just over two weeks, pretty good for mail coming from a country where they warn you in advance that shipping will have unpredictable delays so don't expect it in a hurry.

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