nosmo49 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Thailand currently not receiving mail from Australia. Does anybody in the LOS have a clue as to why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
userabcd Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Not only Australia, mail from Europe as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark5335 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I'm still receiving mail from Australia. Yesterday I received a greeting card from Sydney that took 4 weeks to arrive; but today I received a small parcel from Sydney that only took 2 weeks to arrive in BKK (using Australia Post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david555 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 i just received few mail from my home country and local , but i guess local post offices "group " it together when more than 1piece , as i received a 1 month ago send bankcard , and same time a paper tax declaration home country form send date 27 -09-2021 !!! and local mail pieces ,all in one drop . Probably another covid solution ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Lack of flights to carry it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimHuaHin Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 FYI - Last week I received a letter from my Australian pension fund dated 12 November; post mark dated Melbourne, 16 November.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I received a package via Australia Post and Thailand Post 10 days ago, time of travel 5 days. Most likely cause is staff shortages at the Oz end, the omicron wave is hitting all business sectors hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 22 hours ago, mark5335 said: I'm still receiving mail from Australia. Yesterday I received a greeting card from Sydney that took 4 weeks to arrive; but today I received a small parcel from Sydney that only took 2 weeks to arrive in BKK (using Australia Post). Two days ago received letter, in Chiang Mai, posted from Brisbane 4 days earlier. Months back it was very slow, local postmaster in Sydney said many airlines holding back sending mail (stockpiling mail) on their flights because they have big opportunites to make a killing on general freight movements. How true is that? Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxi Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I've been getting mail from Sydney and Perth in 2-3 weeks. I have also twice requested Westpac to resend a renewed credit card in the last 12 months and both are MIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outbackoz Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Had some similar issues with slow delivery since 2020. Daughter sent meds in May 2020, express post tracking indicated it had left Aus for Thailand within 24 hours. Tracking info had then vanished into the ether and the package turned up 7weeks later after numerous calles to the post office here. Likewise Bank documents from Oz 2 weeks on one occassion and 6 weeks on another late last year. Perhaps mail is left before being sorted due to Covid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAPPYNUFF Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 My daughter is a supervisor with Australia Post, she tells me they have acute staff shortages due to the virus and eveyone is on O/T trying to keep up. On line shopping has increased parcel post dramatically and Australia Post is encouraging people to have parcals delivered to local post office for collection, and postie can drop note in recipients letter box advising them to collect,, as posty cant deliver to housholds direct due to volume. In addition, between Thailand and Perth (W.A) very limited air flights., some Perth outbound mail is being forwarded to Sydney for overseas destinations. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capella Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Australia Post has been getting worse for years - even before Covid, domestic and international mail often took ages to arrive. Covid is used as a routine excuse here now, in all customer interactions and industries, to provide even worse service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaiLao Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) During last twelve months, airmail ex Australia (Melbourne & Sydney) to provincial Thailand: max duration 63 days, min 24 days. England to Thailand: min 6 days. Thailand to Australia (Melbourne) airmail: 22 days. Edited January 20, 2022 by BaiLao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoudHailer Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 There are multiple daily flights between Bangkok and Sydney which is the international mail exchange for all of Australia. 'Customers' deserve and explanation for the appalling mail service. The delay might well be at the Thailand end. Air Mailed letters to Hong Kong can take around three weeks. A letter mailed 30th December was received in Hong Kong yesterday, 19th January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropposurfer Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I'm getting mail from Oz albeit it's slower than normal for sure. Last letter received about (a week ago - regular sender) took almost 4 weeks to arrive which is more than twice normal postal speed. Covid impact is being felt in every aspect of supply and delivery across the globe. So long without or low staff levels, very low to no production/processing for so very long (and unprecedented on both a national and international level before) is seeing a catch-up period before returning to normal levels of staffing and deliveries. It is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 10:36 AM, HAPPYNUFF said: My daughter is a supervisor with Australia Post, she tells me they have acute staff shortages due to the virus and eveyone is on O/T trying to keep up. On line shopping has increased parcel post dramatically and Australia Post is encouraging people to have parcals delivered to local post office for collection, and postie can drop note in recipients letter box advising them to collect,, as posty cant deliver to housholds direct due to volume. In addition, between Thailand and Perth (W.A) very limited air flights., some Perth outbound mail is being forwarded to Sydney for overseas destinations. And they keep announcing new / better services to get on top of the backlog and provide efficient/fast delivery, but there's never any result. I had an abrupt call from local PO telling me that they had a parcel for me, but couldn't/wouldn't give any details. I live in a wheelchair. My purchase included cost of delivery to my apartment. I mentioned this to the the PO guy and he got quite nasty. In another call I got a regional supervisor on the line. At first his response was 'sorry you have to come to the PO'. When I mentioned that I'm a Vietnam war veteran (the reason why I'm in a wheelchair), suddenly his attitude changed and he promised the parcel would delivered to my door. It was 14 days later. Their service is disgraceful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dario Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 My bank in Germany sent me a new bankcard mid November 2021, it never arrived at my home. A new one sent on JAN 18 has not yet arrived, either. I went to my local post office today and I was told by the manager, that since two weeks nobody is working due to Covid. Some people are in the hospital, others take leave out of fear. I can't get into online banking with my German bank since the last bank card expired end of 2021. Now my account remains blocked. Nothing works without that card. How I then transfer my pensions? I have to call my bank in Germany to order a transfer. I haven't received any annually recurring "Life Certificate" from my pension funds in Switzerland and Belgium for the past two years. What a mess since Covid started! Some people must despair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoreFarang Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 9:17 AM, nosmo49 said: Thailand currently not receiving mail from Australia. Does anybody in the LOS have a clue as to why? Mail from AU to the rest of the world was extreme slow in the last months. Even so called express shipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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