Anyone still waiting for stuff from China?

ED E

Singapore Post item today, shipped I assume March 10th by codes in the barcode (SGO180310.....). Untracked.

Much better than normal for the last while.

autumnalcore

3 of mine from various dates between 3rd and 26th February appeared together in Cork DSU yesterday. Something moving alright.

Suckit

It's a decent feelgood lifehack.

Order random cheap stuff from China, and give yourself lots of little surprise gifts throughout the year

I have forgotten most of what I have ordered, and I would have forgotten them all only I had to login to all the sites to check.

briany

For myself, I've never ordered anything direct from China that I need urgently, so how long it takes to arrive doesn't overly worry me, just so long as it arrives at all. If I was ordering anything for, say, a Christmas present, I'd be doing it in late Summer, probably.

Touch wood and all that, but I've never ordered something from China which failed to arrive, but I have had things from the UK and US fail to show up at all.

Doltanian

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styron wrote: »

Av summer temp around 40C surprised it hasn't come back as a bar!

They had melted into mush and re-hardened again and were totally unrecognisable.

corkie

Zapals order arrived in 43 Days! (6 Weeks). << Within the estimated time frame.

Still waiting on aliexpress 18/2 order, supposedly in the country since 11/03!

So it kind of shows that delays are with AnPost, not Zapals.

whiterebel

corkie wrote: »

Zapals order arrived in 43 Days! (6 Weeks). << Within the estimated time frame.

Still waiting on aliexpress 18/2 order, supposedly in the country since 11/03!

So it kind of shows that delays are with AnPost, not Zapals.

An Post have admitted in an email to one of the posters on here, that it can take up to a month for delivery of parcels from outside the EU.

briany

whiterebel wrote: »

An Post have admitted in an email to one of the posters on here, that it can take up to a month for delivery of parcels from outside the EU.

I think there are definitely different categories when it comes to those countries outside the EU and that it's much more likely for that whole month (or more, often) to elapse when you're talking about Russia or China rather than the US or Canada.

Glebee

Glebee wrote: »

Ordered new cover for tablet from Gearbest on 28/03. Arrived in Ireland on 04/04, registered with Netherlands Post. Thats nine days to reach Ireland which I think is great. Interesting to see how long till I receive..

Package arrived today. 16 days from date of order from Gearbest

Suckit

Glebee wrote: »

Package arrived today. 16 days from date of order from Gearbest

The backlog does not seem to be effecting orders from March onwards.
I have ordered a few items from other sites too, and all arrived pretty quickly.

The main delays were/are from items caught between 11/11 and roughly the end of February I believe.
Unfortunately it means that some items on the bottom of the pile are having a tough time seeing daylight.

Collibosher

Suckit wrote: »

The main delays were/are from items caught between 11/11 and roughly the end of February I believe.
Unfortunately it means that some items on the bottom of the pile are having a tough time seeing daylight.

Sounds about right.


I had twelve orders from early January outstanding, nine of them have now turned up in the last week or so.

An order that left China on April 2nd arrived today :rolleyes:

joujoujou

Got one yesterday.

49 days.

Dandelion6

I'm caught up to 10th February orders now.

jk23

I order stuff from a Chinese site called shootjerseys.cc// and I got two messages in the past few months one was to say there was no post

The dates I got messages from the seller on WhatsApp were between the 8th of February to 25th of February due to the Chinese spring festival and also I received a message saying Post was stopped due to the “Irish snow disaster “ which lasted a week

Fanny Wank

Stuff ordered lately is arriving quickly - as in within about 2 weeks.

Cantona's Collars

jk23 wrote: »

I order stuff from a Chinese site called shootjerseys.cc// and I got two messages in the past few months one was to say there was no post

The dates I got messages from the seller on WhatsApp were between the 8th of February to 25th of February due to the Chinese spring festival and also I received a message saying Post was stopped due to the “Irish snow disaster “ which lasted a week

I've always used parcel motel for orders from shootjerseys as I don't trust An Post with them plus I'm guaranteed that they'll arrive within 10 days at most.

jk23

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

I've always used parcel motel for orders from shootjerseys as I don't trust An Post with them plus I'm guaranteed that they'll arrive within 10 days at most.

Did you order soccer jerseys? Jackets/hoodies? How were the sizes for you?...

Suckit

Wireless speaker ordered on the 23rd of January arrived today, as did a 6-in-1 puzzle that was ordered on the 26th of January.
A few items ordered at the start of this month also arrived.

johnnykilo

Two orders on March 21st arrived today. That's definitely the quickest I've gotten anything in years!

ED E

March 29 - April 17 : Not bad. CN Post, Small packet by air.

Note:
Seems brazil is having issues too

This shipping way is recommended by aliexpress team, it usually needs 20-60 days for its delivery but except for Brazil. it will takes around 60-90days if your country is Brazil.

masculinist

The stuff has been arriving regularly now. Ive received a couple of items a week for the last 2 weeks . Since they were all ordered at very different dates over the last 3 months , I suspect this is the fault of An Post whos been stockpiling them and seems to be behaving as though theyre releasing them all at once.

corkie

Package ordered 18th February arrived!

I know during the Chinese hols, was processed the following week.



For size of the above, it was well packaged in a over long tube of bubble-wrap and a black wrapping over that.

Had a shipment date of 2018-3-2 (on package), incorrect tracking had it in the country by 2018-03-11.
48 days for it to be delivered, there was a week left in PP from aliexpress, which happened to be extend by seller today.

Last item from before march orders.

Suckit

I ordered something on the 15th of March - it arrived today.

Items ordered 23rd March arrived a week and a half ago. So maybe mid March was the end of the 'add-that-to-the-pile' in AnPost.

Dandelion6

Suckit wrote: »

So maybe mid March was the end of the 'add-that-to-the-pile' in AnPost.

I'm still waiting for three things ordered in February and one thing ordered in early-mid March.

Suckit

Dandelion6 wrote: »

I'm still waiting for three things ordered in February and one thing ordered in early-mid March.

Yeah, I am still waiting on items ordered in January and March...

I will be glad when everything is up to date. Two of the items ordered in January are Quick Charge adaptors, I was not in a hurry for but never thought they would take this long. I ordered another (same model from same site) on Easter Sunday and it arrived last week.

L1011

Various coverage about An Post's financial returns mentioned they had improved the termination fees deal which may make it slightly more beneficial to sort inbound post from abroad... however, it didn't state it was with China

Basically the deals for handling international post to final delivery really fall apart when you receive way more than you send.

Suckit

Two items arrived today. Both were ordered at the end of January.

scotchy

Ordered 31st March, arrived today.

Delivery times definitely seem to be improving.


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ED E

ED E wrote: »

Two tracked CN post items have been dispatched from hubs. Will monitor.


Anyone had mail to the UK (PM/AP) from CN via TNT? Looks like the seller might have used a trans shipping service from an EU hub but its not clear.

ED E wrote: »

Seems it never got scanned, but:
29 Mar Ordered
30 Mar Shipped
4 Apr Dublin Scan
5 Apr In Motel

€2 for shipping, €3.99 for PM. Bypassing An Post: Priceless.

Seller confirmed it was China to UK. TNT 48 is the dogs proverbials.


Of the two CN items:
1. Arrived 17th March
2. Is still outstanding

Maybe the cages in the DMC are still capturing some inbound stuff.

my3cents

I spoke to my postman about this again yesterday and his story was that last week his local depot was sent out from Dublin two of the big cages of stuff from China. Good and bad, good they were shifting it but it was suppose to have been sorted so badly that half of it wasn't even for the area and had to be sent back to be sorted yet again.

He said two cages didn't sound like much but because all the items were tiny about envelope size there were thousands of then.