Parcels that get to travel the world (or country) before they meet you!

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Ringy

825 posts

Tue 19 Jul 2016 9:02am

I'm currently waiting for a million parcels too arrive, and have be diligently tracking them all online. How frustrating is it when you see the package has arrived from Auckland to Christchurch but then decided to go to Wellington and then back to Christchurch again, it's still 400km away from me so who knows where else it will get to go before its in my hands. Does anyone know how this even happens? Surely it's not cost effective to cart parcels all over? This isn't the first time it's happened- but it seriously makes me feel like pulling my hair out!

Any other stories of well traveled parcels?

SooziesWorld

2999 posts

Tue 19 Jul 2016 10:40am

Ughhh, don't get me started! I can get parcels from America quicker than I can get them from within NZ. When I had an American Express card (never again) they used to send my bills to Tahiti instead of Titahi Bay so my credit card bill was better travelled than me. Then there's My Food Bag that got delivered to the wrong address yesterday. Grrrrrr.

itsclearascrystal

2056 posts

Tue 19 Jul 2016 1:32pm

You wouldn't think it was cost effective to send them all over the place. And I am amazed they mixed Titahi Bay up with Tahiti. Surely they read the bit where it said New Zealand?

SooziesWorld

2999 posts

Tue 19 Jul 2016 2:14pm

The bills used to come from Australia without the country printed in the address so they would go everywhere. Someone would hand write Tahiti on them. Then they used to charge me interest for not paying the bill on time (in the days before Internet banking)

RamblingRose

1280 posts

Wed 20 Jul 2016 3:42pm

Years ago, I had a letter posted to me by someone who lived in the same city. To this day, we don't know how far that letter travelled (it had a few postmarks on it) or where it ended up but I eventually received it in my mailbox 8 years later! I wish I'd kept the envelope or taken a photo of it.

Macs

5351 posts

Wed 20 Jul 2016 6:14pm

I've never made international orders before. I am dreaming up a Lush Kitchen order. Since I've been in Auckland I've noticed my parcels arrieve to me quicker than when I was in the Bay Of Plenty.

ragingfrog

1289 posts

Wed 20 Jul 2016 7:50pm

I think it depends on where it is coming from but because I get all my stuff delivered to work I don't think that I notice it so much. Items from BR seem to arrive the next business day, International 8 days from UK and 10 days from USA, the rest of NZ seems to be 2 days unless there is a weekend in there.

Rezee

1964 posts

Thu 21 Jul 2016 7:27am

Funny, I'd never really thought about how well travelled my makeup was before. But yes, I have seen on my tracking numbers,odd places that it's seemed to have gone too. Luckily, it always seems to get back to me. I wonder if they just accidentally get slipped into anothers countries pile or if the sorters don't know where NZ is.