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cmon0005 · Jul 24, 2015

Are epiqure able to deliver to austpost parcel lockers?

blackcat20 · Jul 24, 2015

coriander said:
I normally have packet deliveries sent to my clinic - open from 8.00am - 7.00pm, and most couriers seem to able to cope with an address label that includes the business name.

AusPost contractors are a weird mob. We'll routinely have a card under the front door, saying "we couldn't deliver" with a handwritten time of 6.30am. You then need to queue up after 4pm that day at the local Reject Shop, sorry Post Shop, to collect your parcels.

Mine wont leave the parcels at the post office at the end of my street even; I have to go to the business centre which means backtracking towards work and trying to cross a busy road right at the entrance to the freeway... The only upside is that they are open till 6 or 7pm.

coriander · Jul 24, 2015

blackcat20 said:
Mine wont leave the parcels at the post office at the end of my street.

Likewise we have a reasonable almost post office (minimal reject shop-like rubbish) about 750m from work (complete with Postmaster Joe - great bloke). But similarly to you, the parcels are delivered to the Post Shop in a shopping centre a couple of kilometers away. If you try to pick up before 4pm, the Gestapo women behind the counter berate you that you're too early and refuse to hand over parcel. Come back after 4pm and the queue is out the door. There is no Postmaster there to complain to, you're told to phone or go online to offer "feedback". Arrrrrgh!

Contractors won't deliver to my nearest PO because the demarcation between post offices runs down the middle of my road and I'm on the wrong side :shock:. Dealing with the PO is like trying to wade through molasses.

DeKa · Jul 24, 2015

Have any of you tried using "Parcel Collect" where you put your address down as your 'account number' at the post office you wish to pick up from?
I think I might sign up and try it for my next Epiqure order and see .. but it may be a while away.
Parcel Collect - Australia Post

penegal · Jul 24, 2015

cmon0005 said:
Are epiqure able to deliver to austpost parcel lockers?

DeKa said:
Have any of you tried using "Parcel Collect" where you put your address down as your 'account number' at the post office you wish to pick up from?
I think I might sign up and try it for my next Epiqure order and see .. but it may be a while away.
Parcel Collect - Australia Post

Not sure about this one.

I know our wonderful government has banned deliveries to PO boxes which is a royal PITA for me. I assume this is something about responsible sale of alcohol.

I travel a lot (surprisingly), so all my regular internet shopping and mail is held for me at the local post office until I pop by to collect it (or a family member does for me).

DeKa · Jul 24, 2015

penegal said:
Not sure about this one.

I know our wonderful government has banned deliveries to PO boxes which is a royal PITA for me. I assume this is something about responsible sale of alcohol.

I travel a lot (surprisingly), so all my regular internet shopping and mail is held for me at the local post office until I pop by to collect it (or a family member does for me).

Well parcel lockers are definitely not allowed for wine deliveries (as it's written in parcel locker T&Cs) but there is nothing in the "Parcel Collect" T&Cs mentioning wine so I suspect it's OK.

Major · Jul 24, 2015

I just returned home to find my Taylors in the carport...as per instructions. I'm happy with that.

dede · Jul 24, 2015

DeKa said:
Have any of you tried using "Parcel Collect" where you put your address down as your 'account number' at the post office you wish to pick up from?
I think I might sign up and try it for my next Epiqure order and see .. but it may be a while away.
Parcel Collect - Australia Post

I recently signed up for Parcel Collect. The nearest post office is just over the road from where I would usually collect an undelivered parcel anyway so it was a bit pointless apart from the SMS and email notifications.

The first delivery from Epiqure arrived there fine. I didn't receive the email from Epiqure until the week after I collected the parcel.
I got an SMS and an email from Australia Post. Picked it up that day (Friday). The following Monday I received another email, I went to the post office only to find it was for the parcel I'd picked up on Friday.

The second time I used it I received the usual "parcel despatched" email from Epiqure on a Monday. By Thursday I still hadn't heard anything so I tracked it online and found it had been delivered to the post office the day before. I didn't receive any notification from them.

I cancelled Parcel Collect the next day.

samh004 · Jul 29, 2015

Was offered the 2016 wine of the year ($80 for 2) and the 2016 winery of the year ($289 for 3 w/ bonus 5000 points) this morning.

It was a no brainer what I did next.

blackcat20 · Jul 29, 2015

samh004 said:
Was offered the 2016 wine of the year ($80 for 2) and the 2016 winery of the year ($289 for 3 w/ bonus 5000 points) this morning.

It was a no brainer what I did next.

I looked 20 mins after the email arrived and it was sold out.

cmon0005 · Jul 29, 2015

samh004 said:
and the 2016 winery of the year ($289 for 3 w/ bonus 5000 points) this morning.

It was a no brainer what I did next.

For that amount I would only do it for 10,000 points! regardless if it was wine of the year

samh004 · Jul 29, 2015

cmon0005 said:
For that amount I would only do it for 10,000 points! regardless if it was wine of the year

For me, it solves 2 Christmas presents and earns me more points than I would have made flying somewhere... it's a shame my life has become a points game now, but a lack of credit does this.

Major · Jul 29, 2015

blackcat20 said:
I looked 20 mins after the email arrived and it was sold out.

I think I looked about 5 min after and then wondered why they even sent the email in the first place

blackcat20 · Jul 29, 2015

Major said:
I think I looked about 5 min after and then wondered why they even sent the email in the first place

Very frustrating.

Daver6 · Jul 29, 2015

samh004 said:
Was offered the 2016 wine of the year ($80 for 2) and the 2016 winery of the year ($289 for 3 w/ bonus 5000 points) this morning.

It was a no brainer what I did next.

2016 wine and winery of the year? Well that's certainly looking into the future given it's still mid-2015 and I can't imagine too many 2015 reds already released. Talk about crazy marketing!

AnonymousCoward · Jul 29, 2015

Daver6 said:
2016 wine and winery of the year? Well that's certainly looking into the future given it's still mid-2015 and I can't imagine too many 2015 reds already released. Talk about crazy marketing!

It's a 2014 vintage. It's "2016 wine of the year" because it'll be that in the 2016 Halliday guide

AnonymousCoward · Jul 29, 2015

cmon0005 said:
For that amount I would only do it for 10,000 points! regardless if it was wine of the year

I take it you're not a buyer of $100/bottle wine?

Rugby · Jul 29, 2015

I would have gone for the 2 Serrat for $80. But for bonus points I'm really after more quaffers (unsurprisingly) & of course some of that Tesco's gin.

prozac · Jul 29, 2015

Rugby said:
.... & of course some of that Tesco's gin.

Tesco's Gin???

Rugby · Jul 29, 2015

prozac said:
Tesco's Gin???

I 'failed' the World Gin Day quiz

http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/playground/world-gin-day-quiz-69635.html

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