Last monday, the 30th of December I posted my tall shot manifolds down to Mortlake to Richard Holzl at V-force so that he could play with the match porting to the heads which he already has. I don't normally post things to him but the traffic on the F3 has been terrible over the holdays so I couldn't be bothered driving back down. Anyway, to cut to the chase, the manifolds still have not arrived!!! They are obvously lost somewhere in the system. I've phoned both Post offices, the one from where I sent it & also the Concord Post Office where it should have gone to & no-one has seen it. I'm stuffed!
What do I do?? jusrt play the waiting game? they were sent through the normal post, not express or registered. I sent a cam to Melbourne last week & it got there OK, I had a oil cooler posted to me from down south & it got here the very next day! so where are my manifolds? I also had a brand new pack of Berg rocker studs in the parcel as well! Bugger. I'm shattered!
Any ideas???
regards
Jak

Sorry for you mate. Got no idea what you can do. You just gotta hope that it'l turn up I guess. If it was a parcel then the recieving post office would have a record of it if it showed up there. Do you know if it arrived there? If not then it could have been put in the wrong bag and been sent somewhere else, and now being sent back. (just trying to figure out WHERE it has gone missing) If it never arrived there I spose you could jump up and down at your PO for all its worth. If it did arrive there then their contractor that does the delivery needs interrogating.

Heres hoping for the wrong bag theory. When I had carbs sent from the US they went via Austria. Took their time getting here but they made it in the end.

mmm damn what a pity. I think australia post states that it is not liable for things like that. registered post and stuff is there for that reason i think.

hey
bad luck!!! my mum sent a pressie to my grandma for chrissy on the 20th of dec and still not therE!!!!!!!
there is this form you can get and fill it in and they send it out to all the post offices to find it!!! ( thats what they told my grandma!)
ring and ask?
cheers
rhys

I would wait & see what happens.... Was it packed correctly? If the package came apart.. was this possible? if so was the address on the parts or attached with a tag with the address on it.... as Many things fall out of Packages and are never delivered because of No Address on the parts themselves.... I don't work at the Post Office.... I've had over 25 years experience of sending and receiving parts via the post and transport companies.... You have to leave NOTHING to chance.... I went to My local Post Office a few months ago looking for a large parcel... after 2 weeks of daily checking.. one day I happened to ask the right person, they remembered it wasn't under "N" where the others were looking.. it had been placed under another initial as it was too large to fit in with the "N" s... and this person remembered.... If its still intact.. it Should turn up.... eventually..... I usually Never insure register etc any parcels I send or receive... Post is usually very good.... I'm sure all the members on the forum feel for You... We ALL hope it arrives safely.. Soon
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hijak,i feel for you mate,just trying to trace one article in the post isnt going to happen,did you use a postcode 2137,did the address say concord or mortlake if it said mortlake maybe its sitting on a shelf at mortlake vic 3272,if you can give me the full address i can give you some possible places it could have been missorted to,aprox 1% of all aust post mail gets missorted the good news is unless a sorting machine eats it most of that 1% will get there within a week.

The exact address was
2a Bennett Street
Mortlake
2137.
Both manifolds were in their own seperate little boxes but I taped them together at the counter with clear packing tape. There is litteraly no way they could have come apart by themselves, & the address was written on the box. no tags.
Just have to wait huh? I'll go into my post office today as I only rang them last time, see what they can do.
Jak

i know it sounds dumb jak but i would always put the state on as well,if it was missorted interstate say vic the parcel officer looking at your parcel could assume that it was a vic address and that the postcode was wrong,PS its very multicultural in aust post,not that theres anything wrong with that but alot of my colleagues in camrys have never driven past campbelltown so have no idea where places are.its not rocket science but it might as well be lolololololo!

hey
if you have your recipt go to post office you sent it to and get a form from them fill it in and it will get found! no matter what state,post office it goes to!!!
cheers
rhys

I know I posted a pair of shoes from Rockhampton to Brisbane, they turned up in Perth about a month later...........

Sorry to hear it Jak

I can't offer any advice

except to say my fingers are crossed for ya.

Isn't there a dead mail centre or something for packages that for whatever reason they can't deliver?

I spoke to the Post office today & they said that unless someone finds it along the way & realises that the package is in the wrong spot, it will end up in the Dead Mail Centre. I have to fill out a form which will be sent to me, with the details & then it takes roughly 2 weeks for it to be sorted! We've go the dyno day in about 3 weeks so I don;t fancy my chances of participating on the day.
Just have to play the waiting game.
Jak

Interesting story, bananaman: we need to remember that, sadly, most postal delivery is handled by contractors (the lowest bidder.)

If it makes you feel any better, I once didn't receive a piece of registered mail, and Ozzie Post refused to do anything about it because someone had signed for it (I lived alone at the time.) It only cost me my house, (and, according to the powers that be, I still owe another $25,000 as well...)

It starts to make certain 3rd-party couriers look a little better, doesn't it?

DLO=Dead Letter Office i think they do parcels too,and after reading the above i think ile lurk for a while lol !