Dere be dragons...tracking EMS

Fallschirmjager

anyone else find that all shipping via EMS (the postal system to you and me) always goes into a black hole once it leaves a destination. it then appears from the dark side of the moon when it enters the destination country.

Anyone ever work out how to truly track from source to destination?

ScumLord

Ya, ask the postman how he got here when he delivers the package.

Fallschirmjager

ScumLord wrote: »

Ya, ask the postman how he got here when he delivers the package.

er, thanks....i am sure he is well up on shipments from Hong Kong...but thanks for the suggestion...

CrazyRabbit

Fallschirmjager wrote: »

er, thanks....i am sure he is well up on shipments from Hong Kong...but thanks for the suggestion...

Duh, well everyone knows that the postman who delivers the package to your door is the same postman who collected it from the retailer in Hong Kong. So they should exactly how they got here.

kdouglas

anyway, for a serious reply;

no, once it leaves hong kong, they stop tracking it on their side, once it enters ireland, it can be tracked via the anpost website, but in between you just have to wait and hope it doesnt go missing, im sure there is some form of tracking for it, but we dont get to see it

Fallschirmjager

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Duh, well everyone knows that the postman who delivers the package to your door is the same postman who collected it from the retailer in Hong Kong. So they should exactly how they got here.

hahahaha..maybe we could ask him to import them for us...

kdouglas wrote: »

anyway, for a serious reply;

no, once it leaves hong kong, they stop tracking it on their side, once it enters ireland, it can be tracked via the anpost website, but in between you just have to wait and hope it doesnt go missing, im sure there is some form of tracking for it, but we dont get to see it

bugger...i wonder what they do if it gets lost? anywasy i was hoping someone had a website somewhere ....

padmundo

After it leaves HK and it goes off their system it goes onto the next carrier, where the barcode is scanned into their system the problem is you don't know who this carrier is at the time. We know it will arrive in Ireland and only after an post scans the barcode does it appear on their system. Theoretically if you did know the in between carrier you should be able to track it on their site with the code you have been given after they scan the barcode. Problem is we never know who the in between handlers are.

No help to you I know but that's the reality of the EMS system. Still it's never let me down or been late with the delivery and I like being able to go down and collect the parcel if I miss it later in the evening after work which is dead handy.

ScumLord

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Duh, well everyone knows that the postman who delivers the package to your door is the same postman who collected it from the retailer in Hong Kong. So they should exactly how they got here.

You'd be surprised at what secrets your postman is with holding. I found out my postman is an ex legionnaire with a blackbelt in some form of martial art. No word of a lie, he's like rambo or someit.

I'm almost sure when I ordered my bell m9 from China Germany was mentioned in the tracking at some stage. Even though the gun had been testing at heathrow so I suspect it was there and not Germany.

padmundo

Most stuff destined for europe is routed through Germany.

Stercus Accidit

I'm making an order from the US with EMS will this differ greatly from shipping from Hong Kong, bar the red tip issue.

There was a thread where ups were being rubbish, will I suffer a similar fate?

kdouglas

avoid UPS like the plaque, they are seizing everything that comes in and it's taking forever to get stuff back, not sure if people have started getting their stuff back yet or not actually...

Tzetze

In the same boat as the OP here. The latest info I have on my package is "The item left Hong Kong for its destination on 24-Oct-2007" (EMS). Now to wait for it to exit it's wormhole in Portlaoise.

OP, is your package showing up on An Post yet?

kdouglas

if it left today, it _might_ be delivered friday, but most likely monday (well it would to dublin, not sure about galway)

Tzetze

Yeah, hoping (will take a miracle, I think) for delivery on Friday. Failing that, it'll be Tuesday - damn these bank holiday weekends!! :P

kdouglas

oh yea, bank holiday, tuesday then