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#3243152 31-May-2024 11:19

Geektastic:
richms:

Couriers dont want casual customers is what it comes down to. That is why they are pushing you to buy thru the likes of gosweetspot or even trademe book a courier instead of taking things to a retail shop to send. That gives them predictability on what loads are going where. The price on random drop off or tickets to get picked up is way higher than when you book and print it.

For larger things look into mainfreight or similar, their depot to depot pricing is about as good as you will get on things 15+ kgs between islands unless you are doing a pallet load.

The $75 deliver was from a camera shop using Gosweetspot. It weighed 1.5kg but volume was about two large shoe boxes equivalent.

Compare the order I just made from a US company shipped with free FedEx!

Its another reason I shop overseas.

Cheaper/free shipping

Faster delivery

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#3243290 31-May-2024 14:20

Geektastic:
richms:

Couriers dont want casual customers is what it comes down to. That is why they are pushing you to buy thru the likes of gosweetspot or even trademe book a courier instead of taking things to a retail shop to send. That gives them predictability on what loads are going where. The price on random drop off or tickets to get picked up is way higher than when you book and print it.

For larger things look into mainfreight or similar, their depot to depot pricing is about as good as you will get on things 15+ kgs between islands unless you are doing a pallet load.

The $75 deliver was from a camera shop using Gosweetspot. It weighed 1.5kg but volume was about two large shoe boxes equivalent.

Compare the order I just made from a US company shipped with free FedEx!

what a rip

24kg server .084m3 from Auckland to Wellington was $28

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#3243479 1-Jun-2024 09:08

The problem with shipping from overseas is always that it gets handed to NZ Post on arrival in NZ.

If the international couriers actually had their own internal delivery systems and vehicles, as per most other places, it would be heaps better.

My best example is something I bought a few years ago that took 4 days to go from the USA to Auckland and 9 days to go from Auckland to my then house in Martinborough!!

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#3243481 1-Jun-2024 09:16

Jase2985:

what a rip

24kg server .084m3 from Auckland to Wellington was $28

I have to agree. I regularly get 600x300x300 mm boxes, which probably weigh around 5 kg each, and I'm certainly not paying anywhere near $75 for them!

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#3243483 1-Jun-2024 09:20

Jase2985: what a rip

24kg server .084m3 from Auckland to Wellington was $28

UPS, sent via Pak'n'Send and probably around the same weight and volume was in the same price range.

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#3243484 1-Jun-2024 09:24

Geektastic: The problem with shipping from overseas is always that it gets handed to NZ Post on arrival in NZ.

If the international couriers actually had their own internal delivery systems and vehicles, as per most other places, it would be heaps better.

My best example is something I bought a few years ago that took 4 days to go from the USA to Auckland and 9 days to go from Auckland to my then house in Martinborough!!

DHL, its how the others SHOULD work, but don't.

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#3243486 1-Jun-2024 09:35

There was a famous rort in the US where 2 women found that the unit price was the only thing evaluated in military supply contracts for commodity items so they would win the tenders with impossibly low prices and charge huge delivery fees. In an extreme case they billed the Department of Defense $998,798.38 to ship two flat washers that cost $0.19 each. 1 committed suicide when an investigation started.

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#3243488 1-Jun-2024 09:46

Geektastic: My best example is something I bought a few years ago that took 4 days to go from the USA to Auckland and 9 days to go from Auckland to my then house in Martinborough!!

Regardless of courier how long did it wait for Customs to decide that it wasn't your usual meth, coke or fentanyl shipment?

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#3243490 1-Jun-2024 09:47

neb:

Jase2985: what a rip

24kg server .084m3 from Auckland to Wellington was $28

UPS, sent via Pak'n'Send and probably around the same weight and volume was in the same price range.

yep love sending through them.

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#3243503 1-Jun-2024 10:53

Bung:
Geektastic: My best example is something I bought a few years ago that took 4 days to go from the USA to Auckland and 9 days to go from Auckland to my then house in Martinborough!!

Regardless of courier how long did it wait for Customs to decide that it wasn't your usual meth, coke or fentanyl shipment?

Not long since it was well below the GST threshold etc.

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#3243532 1-Jun-2024 14:29

Geektastic: The problem with shipping from overseas is always that it gets handed to NZ Post on arrival in NZ.

If the international couriers actually had their own internal delivery systems and vehicles, as per most other places, it would be heaps better.

My best example is something I bought a few years ago that took 4 days to go from the USA to Auckland and 9 days to go from Auckland to my then house in Martinborough!!

If they had their own drivers it’d cost 10 times as much for shipping because the drivers would be sitting around most of the time. There’s a price you pay for living in a big country with not many people.

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#3243572 1-Jun-2024 18:56

Ticketmaster booking and payments. Working monopoly mess.

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#3243579 1-Jun-2024 20:20

Oh, you mean the leaky Ticketmaster?

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#3243595 2-Jun-2024 00:16

It's even worse than that. Two ladies I talked to at interval during an event tonight said the singing was not what they expected.

Oh? Something wrong with the singing? The opera isn't French enough? You don't like the NZ setting for a French opera?

On inspection they had tickets for Dawn French. Different venue, same seat number, same row, same seating location. The electronic scanners at the door had happily passed them in.

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#3243596 2-Jun-2024 00:22

gzt: It's even worse than that. Two ladies I talked to at interval during an event tonight said the singing was not what they expected.

Oh? The opera isn't French enough? You don't like the NZ setting for a French opera?

On inspection they had tickets for Dawn French. Different venue, same seat number, same row, same seating location. The electronic scanners at the door had happily passed them in.

Whoa. What venues were these and what were they actually attending?

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