3 Days From America to my front door step: NZ Post, THIS is how it's done.

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#154047 16-Oct-2014 14:31

Long story short, purchased a watch from Amazon on the 13th of October.

3 days later, I have it in my hot little hand

Thank you DHL.

NZpost. Sort your sh6t out. Shouldn't take a week to get from Christchurch to Auckland. No wonder you're losing money with such a poor service record.

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#1156137 16-Oct-2014 14:36

How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

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#1156150 16-Oct-2014 14:46

sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

For the International DHL Shipping I paid $18NZD. For the NZ Post Courier I paid the standard $8 I think it was.

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#1156151 16-Oct-2014 14:46

sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

On that note the things I have ordered couriered recently have taken an extended period of time, Including the items I make orders for at work which are all shipped overnight.

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#1156154 16-Oct-2014 14:47

Kopkiwi:
sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

For the International DHL Shipping I paid $18NZD. For the NZ Post Courier I paid the standard $8 I think it was.

DHL international sounds like a far better value for money, Irony is they are both the same company, CourierPost is owned by DHL.

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#1156160 16-Oct-2014 14:54

I've ordered quite a few motorcycle parts from Korea and everytime received it on the third day.

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#1156161 16-Oct-2014 14:54

Many times when i order from Amazon,

1) it doesnt allow a NZ address in the first place.

2) sometimes it does, then shipping is ridiculous like 80-90$

Can you please give a link here to your watch so that i can try to replicate the $18 DHL rate what you have got.

Thanks

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#1156164 16-Oct-2014 14:55

How'd you get it so cheap? Amazon priority for a watch appears to cost NZ$36 when I try it, or $25/$13 if you want to wait a while. Youshop is probably cheaper, but slower, by design.

NZPost is VERY expensive to send things overseas. Postage costs double to triple from NZ to say Thailand than the other direction.

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#1156180 16-Oct-2014 15:09

lucky015: DHL international sounds like a far better value for money, Irony is they are both the same company, CourierPost is owned by DHL.

CourierPost not owned by DHL, it has a strategic relationship with them. CourierPost is actually Express Couriers Limited, which has a single shareholder, New Zealand Post Limited.

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#1156181 16-Oct-2014 15:10

I tried to order a Fossil watch $145 from amazon now, just for sake of experiment, and it threw a error as "cant ship to NZ address"

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Recently a few weeks back i used youshop to get a watch , took 2 weeks, $25 approx

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#1156184 16-Oct-2014 15:15

I picked up a Roku 3 recently off Amazon, paid the premium $25NZ shipping for 3-6 days.. Even with the UPS shipping delay it only took 7 days. eBay Global shipping program is another story (2 weeks to get an item).

By far the quickest is FedEx, ive had car parts out of USA in 48 hours form order to door.

Thing with little old NZ is we don't deal with the volumes that USA, Asia and Europe have, therefore we dont require the infrastructure and systems that make these amazing deliver times possible.

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#1156195 16-Oct-2014 15:31

timmmay: How'd you get it so cheap? Amazon priority for a watch appears to cost NZ$36 when I try it, or $25/$13 if you want to wait a while. Youshop is probably cheaper, but slower, by design.

NZPost is VERY expensive to send things overseas. Postage costs double to triple from NZ to say Thailand than the other direction.

Yep my mistake, it was $30NZD. Not sure where I got $18 from?

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#1156203 16-Oct-2014 15:47

Kopkiwi: Long story short, purchased a watch from Amazon on the 13th of October.

3 days later, I have it in my hot little hand

Thank you DHL.

NZpost. Sort your sh6t out. Shouldn't take a week to get from Christchurch to Auckland. No wonder you're losing money with such a poor service record.

Yes, I have seen stuff get from the USA to NZ faster than it gets from Auckland to the Wairarapa.

And I have seen one courier from Auck to Welly, another from Welly to Masterton, then a THIRD from Masterton to Martinborough then the Rural Delivery guy to my house. Four sets of hands to get the parcel 800km.

Inefficient does not begin to describe it.

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#1156207 16-Oct-2014 15:52

lucky015:
Kopkiwi:
sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

For the International DHL Shipping I paid $18NZD. For the NZ Post Courier I paid the standard $8 I think it was.

DHL international sounds like a far better value for money, Irony is they are both the same company, CourierPost is owned by DHL.

Lol where did you read that from

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#1156217 16-Oct-2014 16:23

joker97:
lucky015:
Kopkiwi:
sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

For the International DHL Shipping I paid $18NZD. For the NZ Post Courier I paid the standard $8 I think it was.

DHL international sounds like a far better value for money, Irony is they are both the same company, CourierPost is owned by DHL.

Lol where did you read that from

Red & Yellow Branding ???

DHL owns Courier Post

or does Mcdonalds own all red and yellow brands ?

At most they are a deliver partner.

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#1156221 16-Oct-2014 16:31

heylinb4nz:
joker97:
lucky015:
Kopkiwi:
sbiddle: How much did you pay for DHL shipping? How much did you pay for your NZ Post shipping?

If you want overnight service from Christchurch to Auckland use a courier or NZ post with courier addon - regular post isn't an overnight service unless you pay for it.

For the International DHL Shipping I paid $18NZD. For the NZ Post Courier I paid the standard $8 I think it was.

DHL international sounds like a far better value for money, Irony is they are both the same company, CourierPost is owned by DHL.

Lol where did you read that from

Red & Yellow Branding ??? DHL owns Courier Post or does Mcdonalds own all red and yellow brands ?

At most they are a deliver partner.

Courier post is part of NZ post I believe.

The DHL bit is just partnering to get worldwide reach by leveraging an existing network.

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