A mate of mine sent me a parcel from Australia by standard airmail. Everything I’ve received t is way from back in Australia, or from the US, has always arrived here safely, but not this parcel.
Since it was standard post, there is no tracking number. I have been to my usual parcel pickup post depot a couple of times, but unless you actually have a postal docket saying you have a parcel waiting for you, there’s not much hope - they won’t let you rummage around in their ‘received parcels’ pile looking for anything which is addressed to you.
It can take up to four weeks for postal items to get here from Australia by standard air, but this parcel was sent 2 months ago, and should be in the country somewhere.
It is of no commercial value, but is a carpentry project of mine which has taken three years and about $15,000 NT to build. I hate the idea of all that going to waste.
What do people do about lost mail? Does it sit in some warehouse rotting, or what?
I’m particularly concerned because I know that DHL here isn’t crash hot either. A mate of mine sent me something from the US by DHL. After over a week, it hadn’t arrived, so he rang DHL US with the tracking number. They informed him that the package was in Taiwan, but hadn’t been delivered due to a single letter mispelling in the address. He was able to pass on the correct address, and the parcel should arrive soon, but what concerns me is that when things went wrong DHL didn’t contact him or anything, and the parcel stayed put somewhere in Taiwan (was it so difficult to realise that ‘140 Toghua Street, Taipei 106’ was meant to be ‘140 Tonghua Street, Taipei 106’?).
If this is the way a ‘professional’ delivery service works here, I do not hold high hopes for mail lost in the state postal system.
As I said, this is the only international parcel out of over a dozen in 15 months to go astray, so I am surprised, but I am beginning to think it’s a write off. Is there any hope?