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Anyone still waiting for stuff from China?

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  • #482
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    nava wrote: »
    Any actual proof of that other than a friend?

    I didn't state it as a fact..i was merely repeating what somebody I know told me.
    It may or not be true,if it's not true it's not going to be very easy to prove..


  • #483
    GodlessM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭GodlessM


    Was coming on here to ask a similar question but seems that I am not the only one that suspects that An Post is the issue here. I have had 5 undelivered items from ebay/amazon this year so far. After the first 3 I thought it was just the China Post being crap, but then the next was from US and the next from UK. The only common denominator here is An Post. It makes me wonder where this stuff is going to, and I feel bad for the number of sellers that are having to send me out new items. Is there any way to check if An Post have stuff they haven't delivered to you?


  • #484
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    how do you know it arrived in ireland on March 17th?

    Item had tracking as far as Ireland.

    It actually arrived in Ireland on March 15th, looks like it actually came quickly by airmail on Emirates EK307-EK161 (China to Dubai, Dubai to Dublin) and then sat for two months with An Post!


  • #485
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    bk wrote: »
    Item had tracking as far as Ireland.

    It actually arrived in Ireland on March 15th, looks like it actually came quickly by airmail on Emirates EK307-EK161 (China to Dubai, Dubai to Dublin) and then sat for two months with An Post!

    If you have a minute fire off that tracking info (maybe screenshot it as it will expire!) and dates to (mod edit) customer.services@anpost.ie.

    No doubt they'll pretend its nothing, but mail thats tracked as far as Dub puts them right in the sights.


  • #486
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,912 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    bk wrote: »
    Item had tracking as far as Ireland.

    It actually arrived in Ireland on March 15th, looks like it actually came quickly by airmail on Emirates EK307-EK161 (China to Dubai, Dubai to Dublin) and then sat for two months with An Post!


    what service was it posted with because ChinaPost registered mail doesnt show that info.


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  • #487
    purple_rose
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭purple_rose


    I think things are being delivered in Cork this week.

    Received 2 packages so far this week. Sent in the middle of February and start of March. So i don't understand how packages that has 2-3 week difference shows up in the same week.

    Unless of course it will look odd on An Post's side if i was to get 7 packages in the one day. Maybe it's best to space them out a bit.


  • #488
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,772 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    ED E wrote: »
    If you have a minute fire off that tracking info (maybe screenshot it as it will expire!) and dates to (mod edit) customer.services@anpost.ie.

    No doubt they'll pretend its nothing, but mail thats tracked as far as Dub puts them right in the sights.
    Good idea, there's very little hard evidence so something like this is good to use


  • #489
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,623 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    what service was it posted with because ChinaPost registered mail doesnt show that info.

    Seemed to have been China Post Air Mail / Flyt Express

    Tracked it as far as Ireland on https://track.aftership.com/flytexpress/


  • #490
    ace120387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭ace120387


    i got my stuff yesterday
    Order#1 ordered Feb 27
    Order#2 March 02, 2017

    Its bit strange that they arrived together. Which points that An Post is probably holding stuff.

    Edit:
    Also, the tracking info still shows received by line haul


  • #491
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Quick question, lads - Is it worth paying for ePacket/will it get here any faster compared to China Post or is it all the one?


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  • #492
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,912 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    bk wrote: »
    Seemed to have been China Post Air Mail / Flyt Express

    Tracked it as far as on https://track.aftership.com/flytexpress/

    No idea who Flyt Express are. they arent china post.


  • #493
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    FlytGlobalExpress refers to the channel of air mail small parcel developed by Guangzhou Flyt Logistics Ltd with its own air resources and integration of a number of postal channels (currently Hong Kong Post, Chuanghwa Post, Deutsche Post, Australia Post, Posten Sweden etc.)! With accessible postal communication to more than 200 countries or regions worldwide, it is a small parcel with favorable price, timeliness and speediness, stability, and cost-effective features

    Probably just lease planes or space thereon.


  • #494
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Duff wrote: »
    Quick question, lads - Is it worth paying for ePacket/will it get here any faster compared to China Post or is it all the one?

    Problem is AP so irrelevant unless you pay 15$+ for signed for.


  • #495
    dohouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭dohouch


    :) Fasttech usually come in around 23 days with Singapore Registered post, best ever was 12 days, but that was an outlier. Now I have a packet that left SG on 07 April and still not sign of it on Anpost track. Fasttech always use Singapore Registered and in 3 years this is my first delay. Their tracking numbers are solid and work.

    P.S. only posting here as I know posting here will cause it appear on Anpost tracking tonight:P

    Fri 12th May 2017, 20:05 hrs,
    P.S.S. My Fasttech order hit the AN Post mail centre this evening, so I think I will have it at my door on Monday, so just 38 days , which by the standards of others here is very acceptable

    🧐IMHO, God wants us all to ENJOY many,many ice-creams , 🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦



  • #496
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Currently Overdue:
    - In transit 61 Days
    - In transit 53 days
    - In tranist 53 days
    - In tranist 52 days

    Few others that aren't late yet. If 160 days becomes normal I've a long wait yet.


  • #497
    purple_rose
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 61 ✭✭purple_rose


    I received 3 packages this week. It's so odd. They were posted in mid February and beginning of March.

    I'm still waiting on things from January and the beginning of February but I'm sure they're buried at the bottom of an post's container. They're working through it.


  • #498
    5500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭5500


    One in from the 25th of April today, untracked China post.


  • #499
    styron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭styron


    Two China Post from 17/2 - 12 weeks to the day (down from 5 months - Mid Nov)


  • #500
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    purple_rose wrote: »
    I received 3 packages this week. It's so odd. They were posted in mid February and beginning of March.

    I'm still waiting on things from January and the beginning of February but I'm sure they're buried at the bottom of an post's container. They're working through it.

    I mentioned to my postman that other people had had stuff from China this week and he said it was obvious that they had sorted some more of it as he had delivered loads of it this week after a period of seeing very little from China.


  • #501
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,864 ✭✭✭stimpson


    my3cents wrote: »
    I mentioned to my postman that other people had had stuff from China this week and he said it was obvious that they had sorted some more of it as he had delivered loads of it this week after a period of seeing very little from China.

    Maybe mailing the minister does some good after all!


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  • #502
    Doltanian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    Would shipping my Chinese stuff into the UK via Parcel Motel etc. lead to faster shipping times? There is a few <$5 items I am thinking of buying but I don't want to wait such long periods for shipping. Adding €3.50 ( for address pal) per packet is pricey but on the ones I'd like to get sooner I'd pay it if it routed via the UK and avoided getting delayed by An Post in Ireland.


  • #503
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,864 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Doltanian wrote: »
    Would shipping my Chinese stuff into the UK via Parcel Motel etc. lead to faster shipping times? There is a few <$5 items I am thinking of buying but I don't want to wait such long periods for shipping. Adding €3.50 ( for address pal) per packet is pricey but on the ones I'd like to get sooner I'd pay it if it routed via the UK and avoided getting delayed by An Post in Ireland.

    6 days vs 48 days for me:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=103287489


  • #504
    VG31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭VG31


    I ordered something from Russia that arrived in Ireland three weeks ago. I have proof it has arrived in Ireland from the Russia Post tracking.

    I ordered something from China in January which took three months to arrive and had got a refund from the seller. However this item is a lot more expensive so I don't want to ask the seller for a refund yet.

    Can having proof it has arrived in Ireland help me in any way if I contact An Post? Thanks.


  • #505
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    VG31 wrote: »
    I ordered something from Russia that arrived in Ireland three weeks ago. I have proof it has arrived in Ireland from the Russia Post tracking.

    I ordered something from China in January which took three months to arrive and had got a refund from the seller. However this item is a lot more expensive so I don't want to ask the seller for a refund yet.

    Can having proof it has arrived in Ireland help me in any way if I contact An Post? Thanks.

    Customer care will ignore it as they cant track it on their system, because they aren't sorting it.

    Complain with proof to the company secretary linked above.


  • #506
    GodlessM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭GodlessM


    This is a bit desperate and I feel bad for the amount of sellers that are probably getting pinched by it. I've been waiting for something two months now that should have been in the country by now, so I reckon they have it and are just sitting on it. What's most annoying is I ordered it far in advance to make sure I had it before the end of May even with usual long postage details from China, and it seems it wasn't enough. Really wish there was a way to check if they had it in the warehouse.


  • #507
    Doltanian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Doltanian


    I guess if this sort of delayed delivery continues lads will want to start ordering their Christmas stuff in another month or two.


  • #508
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,618 ✭✭✭grogi


    GodlessM wrote: »
    This is a bit desperate and I feel bad for the amount of sellers that are probably getting pinched by it. I've been waiting for something two months now that should have been in the country by now, so I reckon they have it and are just sitting on it. What's most annoying is I ordered it far in advance to make sure I had it before the end of May even with usual long postage details from China, and it seems it wasn't enough. Really wish there was a way to check if they had it in the warehouse.

    I stopped claiming refunds. It's not the sellers' fault and they are generally very honest - only once I have not received a parcel (after waiting long enough...).


  • #509
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,180 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    grogi wrote: »
    I stopped claiming refunds. It's not the sellers' fault and they are generally very honest - only once I have not received a parcel (after waiting long enough...).

    I claimed a refund and the package arrived a few weeks later, contacted the company and got another ticket to pay for the item.


  • #510
    zynaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭zynaps


    I had this problem several times this year with small packages from DealExtreme, and one that took over two months to arrive from an eBay seller in China. I asked him to chase it up with China Post because their tracker listed it as still there, and he ignored that, as well as the Paypal claim I opened and eventually got a refund, although the thing didn't cost much anyway.

    Oh, and the item arrived about a week after I got the refund. Still says it's in China according to the tracking page.

    It's been really bad this year. But then, I ordered a PS3 game from the UK two weeks ago and it's still not arrived...


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  • #511
    dominoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭dominoman


    Finally an item arrived this morning ordered in mid February.


    Only 83 days to arrive!!
    Only 77 days for An Post to delivery it. (If the tracking can be believed)!!

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