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  AdosHouse on 03/04/2023 - 19:15

  +3

  Only been a week so far, it's only 1/4 of it's journey with Aramex

  Last time I had something posted with Aramex it was a package from Adelaide to Brisbane. 1 In Trasit message is all I had for 2 weeks. I was almost ready to send out a search crew into the Simpson Desert to look for ol' mate.

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 19:19

    I guess I'm lucky my package visited 5 major depots in one day, lol, at least I know it's not out in the Simpson…

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  ModdySwag on 03/04/2023 - 19:16

  +7

  🎶🎶 Travel all over the countryside,
  Ask your parcel, ask your parcel,
  Whatever it is that you wanted to see,
  Ask your friggin parcel ! 🎶🎶

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    Daabido on 03/04/2023 - 19:55

    +1

    Thanks Mal and Mike.

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  nfr on 03/04/2023 - 19:27

  +1

  Lol wtf wasting petrol like that

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 23:23

    By road, it started 1600km from the destination, so far it has travelled 8,200km, and it's currently 2,600km from the destination… Considering it must have gone by air on some legs the distances are probably a bit less, but it's still ridiculous.. .

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  boomramada on 03/04/2023 - 19:42

  +1

  Error in the address? Once my item went to Austria and came back ;)

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 20:02

    I've contacted Aramex and the sender to ask this… It's a replacement item for a dodgy item a popular ebay seller sent me (OzAuctionBroker, 2.7Mill sales), so it wouldn't surprise me if they've purposely addressed it incorrectly so it ends up being returned to them, you know how these companies are, lol..

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  bathuu on 03/04/2023 - 19:59

  +2

  A typical aramex run around. Nothing unusual. And not to mention their customer service is useless too. Unfortunately it is best to avoid any seller that uses aramex as delivery company if you want to receive your item.

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 20:07

    +2

    Unfortunately Amazon are using them for most Tassie deliveries now, I certainly shop a lot less on Amazon due to that… They're a lot slower, when Aus-Post were doing the Amazon deliveries they were generally overnight, or 2 day, Aramex is generally a week or more, and they deliver at odd times, "onboard for delivery" Friday morning can mean it will be delivered at 8pm Sunday night, grrrr…

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      Surfsalot on 03/04/2023 - 21:00

      Amazon with Aramex are overnight to me, AP 4-5 days.

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        FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 21:09

        Are you in Tassie? … Edit, I see, Coffs, over night is understandable …

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  Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 03/04/2023 - 20:11

  +1

  It'll be wrong postcode. Predicting 2 months of back and forth before they just send it back to sender (if they provided an address) or outright "lose" it.

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 20:23

    I suspect that's the case, I'll give them a couple of days to get back to me then I'll just order from elsewhere and lodge a Paypal claim to recover my money…

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 21:14

    Thinking on this, you'd think if it was a wrong postcode it wouldn't be listed as "Your parcel is currently in transit to Hobart" … Hmmmm…

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  ozssc on 03/04/2023 - 20:23

  +1

  Not just that, Aramex couriers are some of the most aggressive drivers on the road. I'm not exactly the most mild-mannered driver on the road but they're the worst! Seen them weaving through traffic at 130kph on the motorways, tailgating drivers (who weren't in the fast lane), etc

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 20:25

    I think it's more on the company than the drivers… I did some reading about Fastway Franchises a couple of years back, what a nightmare of a company to work for, I feel bad for the poor guys that get sucked into purchasing an area franchise..

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  Surfsalot on 03/04/2023 - 20:58

  Love Aramex, local lady delivers around 7:30am or so without fail. Would choose them every time if I could. AP delivery a week ago from Brisbane to Coffs went to Parkes then to WA, now on its way to Granville lol, will probably be next Tuesday now, should of been 4 days max.

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    FLICKIT on 03/04/2023 - 21:08

    +1

    A few years back I had a good Fastway franchise guy that always kept to his scheduled time which was listed on their website, from memory it was 9:45am - 10am every weekday, it was great, after he quit it's been different guys all the time, oddball times, often after hours and weekends, I assume they use a lot of casual guys..

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      Surfsalot on 03/04/2023 - 21:14

      +1

      Mine has her name written on the side of the van so not casual.

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  Clickbait on 04/04/2023 - 09:27

  Give them a break.
  They are up against an army of lazy bureaucrats at Auspost, who survive on a massive monopoly built on our taxes.
  I will support anything that forces these Auspost fools to compete.
  Give Aramex the business, complain as much as you like, but the difference between their prices and Auspost reflects how much the fatcat bureaucrats are scamming and lining their own pay packets

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  Archi on 04/04/2023 - 14:57

  +1

  we sent a parcel a few weeks back at work,

  sydney to canberra,

  it went syd-perth-adelaide-syd-canberra

  it was scanned in and put on the wrong truck after a week it turned up .

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  Empharand on 04/04/2023 - 15:10

  +1

  I find it funny when something like that happens, I have personally had something similar like that happen with an Australia Post parcel, after like 21 scan events I thought yeah my parcel has been enough of a slut between different states and needs to be delivered to me. The Australia Post rep I spoke to on the phone was quite shocked.

  I avoid Aramex like the plague, takes longer then average compared to Couriers Please, Australia Post etc and the drivers almost always have a stick up their ass.

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    FLICKIT on 04/04/2023 - 16:35

    +1

    I heard about that happening with Aus-Post during covid, I wondered if it might be due to the distribution centers being chockablock full so they were sending packages on joyrides while they cleared the backlog, lol… It's odd…

    My package bounced from Brisbane to Canberra and back to Brisbane today, lol …

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  cashless on 04/04/2023 - 20:20

  +1

  The bit I love most about Aramex is when it finally says “onboard for delivery today”, that’s when the fun begins.
  You know you won’t receive it and then it goes back to the depot. Finally you get a random “Delivered “ notice, but no package. You then have the fun of walking round the neighbourhood, knocking on doors to see which address it was misdelivered to - or not.
  My last delivery from them got lost. In my complaint I got sender to vow never to use them again.