Ordering online
Submitted: Friday, Dec 12, 2014 at 16:44
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Does anyone else have the same problem? Whenever I try to place an online order I am told theory will not send to x
post office .
I try saying it's not actually a
post office box I just want the parcel sent to a
post office so I can pick it up from there .
What do other travellers do when they want to order online.
We are permanently on the road
Linda
Reply By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Friday, Dec 12, 2014 at 22:47
Friday, Dec 12, 2014 at 22:47
We have had this issue all our lives!
We live some 25km's from town with no roadside mail box or delivery. Sometimes it is just impossible to get a purchase through using a PO Box....which is all we have
We avoid like the plague ever putting a physical address as
well as a Postal even though the form in progress at the time states they will use the postal...simply because some Nincompoop uses the physical and the item vaporises!
Telstra is amongst the worse as they insist on mobile phones, modems etc. being couriered and despite all the checks and balances we put in place with them we now go to a store....they are impossible
We have tried playing with the address so it will go to the local
Post Office that knows us then they will use the PO Box for us
Things like c/ of
Post Office....Box #, Town OR # Box street, Town etc...but a lot of damn forms cross reference the Sensis data base as you type and states no street name or number in that town !...I could go on
Don't know any solution other than perhaps using the
Post Office physical address street name and number and leave out
Post Office wording?
approaching a local business or caravan park and asking if you can have something sent there....if you explained the dilemma some may be sympathetic
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Saturday, Dec 13, 2014 at 00:29
Saturday, Dec 13, 2014 at 00:29
Hi Bungarra
Some vendors use a database to match street addresses. If I put our road in it gets rejected and I cannot continue, as the database has town addresses only. I have not been able to deal with these businesses unless I use someone's address in town.
For others I have been able to put our box number with the road name, and it is enough for our
post office to work out, but we are very
well known at our local
post office.
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Follow Up By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Saturday, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:17
Saturday, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:17
Hi MH
Like you we are
well known at the
post office..........if we can get it there all looked after by them...getting there is the hardest with some suppliers
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