Have had a few cases recently where I've been able to track a parcel from overseas right through to customs clearance/local carrier handover, only to then have them sit in New Zealand (presumably with NZPost) for two or three weeks before delivery - just wondered if anyone else had been experiencing this.

It's quite outside their normal times and pretty inconsistent - I've received a number of parcels within the standard three-five days of clearing customs, but have now had about four in the last couple of months which have had much longer delays. Generally low-value, no batteries etc, so no reason for a customs-side delay.

Several from China/HK, but also one from Australia (annoyingly that one was a laptop part that I had originally ordered from China, but then decided to get from Australia instead to minimise the wait. Although the Australian seller shipped it immediately, I only received it two and a half weeks later - the same day as the one from China :)

Contacted NZPost today about one that cleared customs on March 5th and was handed over on the 7th, but all they could tell me was to contact the sender as NZPost had no info about it.

I know that there's undoubtedly a massive flood of parcels of cheap merchandise entering the country, but while I'm now used to CourierPost taking four or five days to deliver a couriered item that took only a couple of days to get here from the US, I've never experienced such long in-country waits from NZPost before.