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#3322846 20-Dec-2024 16:50

Ge0rge: Surely "received at Post Shop, awaiting courier uplift" couldn't be that hard to implement?

If you're prepared to renegotiate international postal treaties, define new EDIFACT service codes to add "received at Post Shop, awaiting courier uplift", and convince every postal service on the planet to adopt them then no, it'll just be a small matter of programming.

Edited to add: I'm not sure if you'd need to renegotiate postal treaties since I'm not sure at which level enforcement would work, so just added that as a backstop.

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#3322857 20-Dec-2024 17:18

Ge0rge: Surely "received at Post Shop, awaiting courier uplift" couldn't be that hard to implement?

^^ Yes, this. It would be accurate and honest.

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#3322883 20-Dec-2024 18:53

Most gifts I send these days are gift vouchers that can be electronically delivered, so no postal hassles for me.

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#3322887 20-Dec-2024 19:42

deepred:
Most gifts I send these days are gift vouchers that can be electronically delivered, so no postal hassles for me.

Huh, I just had a Nigerian prince asked for me to buy gift cards, scratch off the silver bars, and send him photographs. It's to pay for the large trunk of gold bars I won from the United Nations for my good works.

It seemed like a strange way to pay postage ;)

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#3322910 20-Dec-2024 22:27

Ge0rge: Surely "received at Post Shop, awaiting courier uplift" couldn't be that hard to implement?

You do realise that this is NZPost you are talking about!

In the 1990's CourierPost showed more tracking data!

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#3322913 20-Dec-2024 23:01

kingdragonfly:
deepred:

Most gifts I send these days are gift vouchers that can be electronically delivered, so no postal hassles for me.

Huh, I just had a Nigerian prince asked for me to buy gift cards, scratch off the silver bars, and send him photographs. It's to pay for the large trunk of gold bars I won from the United Nations for my good works.

It seemed like a strange way to pay postage ;)

I am also still waiting for the promised million USD. 😁

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#3322914 20-Dec-2024 23:03

msukiwi:

Ge0rge: Surely "received at Post Shop, awaiting courier uplift" couldn't be that hard to implement?

You do realise that this is NZPost you are talking about!

In the 1990's CourierPost showed more tracking data!

That is the way of things. You don't get what you paid for. It's going to get worse.

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#3322917 20-Dec-2024 23:18

neb:

So you'd prefer "Tracking number allocated", telling the recipient "we have no idea where it is or when it'll be picked up, possibly several weeks"?

Yes because that is correct, all that has happened is that the sender has given your details to their shipping software and had a sticker come out at that point. NZ post have no idea if it will even be in the pickup container because it might be too full or the truck might be full.

I dont think that any small retailer is scanning things into the giant cubes, that is reserved for places like mighty ape.

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#3323036 21-Dec-2024 14:40

Behodar:

"Order now and get it by Christmas!". Ordered six days ago, not shipped yet, probably won't be here in time for Christmas.

It shipped this morning and the courier's estimate is after Christmas. Meanwhile the seller's site is still saying if you order today then you'll get it by Christmas.

Edit: If you click on it then you get fine print about it only applying to certain items, and only to certain locations, and that it's not a guarantee.

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#3323040 21-Dec-2024 15:15

Maybe NZpost were told to 'modernise' and study industry leaders like ARAMEX ? :-)

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#3323047 21-Dec-2024 16:16

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#3323055 21-Dec-2024 18:36

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The slip of paper with the code gave the crucial part: I can be in the draw for the credit if I rate them a 9 or 10. Otherwise I’m out of luck.

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#3323056 21-Dec-2024 18:42

MadEngineer:

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#3323482 23-Dec-2024 08:08

When Spotify finally serves up some cool new music in your playlists that you’re really getting in to. You dig a little deeper to find out more about the band. Only to find that the album you’ve been enjoying was released in 2012 and the band broke up in 2019. Spotify, why have you chosen now to share this music with me and not 10yrs ago???

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#3323493 23-Dec-2024 08:49

Senecio:

When Spotify finally serves up some cool new music in your playlists that you’re really getting in to. You dig a little deeper to find out more about the band. Only to find that the album you’ve been enjoying was released in 2012 and the band broke up in 2019. Spotify, why have you chosen now to share this music with me and not 10yrs ago???

Apple Music did the same thing to me a couple of weeks ago - was a fun rabbit hole to go down though and I ended up discovering music by the new bands that the various members had joined/formed.

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