Current Mail Speed ex-EU/UK

[Rallye Sport]

Starting to feel the pinch now.

The Cortina club that supplies almost every part, repro, have shut up shop all together.

A couple of my suppliers (Charade GTti gaskets) have stopped posting internationally and my one other chance is saying FEDEX isn't posting to all parts of Australia, I'm in this area apparently.

So time to adapt and overcome.
I have a relative in the UK that may be able to help with triangular shipping, I can buy sheets of gasket cork locally and have a go at making a gasket myself or less than ideal, tubes of RTV silicone are available, locally again, and cheap.

Interesting times

[Mr Brooksy]

I had some parts come from Italy in less than 2 weeks... Others from Melbourne (before 2nd Covid19 wave) took 3 weeks. A lot of it domestically comes down to who you choose to courier your stuff.

[Citroënbender]

Brickbats and Bouquets…

Parcel lodged Southampton October 27th, arrived today.

Just plain old “International Signed” airmail.

An identical part travelling locally is still on the move…

[Big_Daz]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Starting to feel the pinch now.

The Cortina club that supplies almost every part, repro, have shut up shop all together.

A couple of my suppliers (Charade GTti gaskets) have stopped posting internationally and my one other chance is saying FEDEX isn't posting to all parts of Australia, I'm in this area apparently.

So time to adapt and overcome.
I have a relative in the UK that may be able to help with triangular shipping, I can buy sheets of gasket cork locally and have a go at making a gasket myself or less than ideal, tubes of RTV silicone are available, locally again, and cheap.

Interesting times

Where in WA are you? FedEx are still business as usual and if no FedEx coverage where you are at we use TNT or Aus Post to get it there.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Starting to feel the pinch now.

The Cortina club that supplies almost every part, repro, have shut up shop all together.

A couple of my suppliers (Charade GTti gaskets) have stopped posting internationally and my one other chance is saying FEDEX isn't posting to all parts of Australia, I'm in this area apparently.

So time to adapt and overcome.
I have a relative in the UK that may be able to help with triangular shipping, I can buy sheets of gasket cork locally and have a go at making a gasket myself or less than ideal, tubes of RTV silicone are available, locally again, and cheap.

Interesting times

There's a small independent business called Yesterford in Bayswater here in Melbourne which specialises in all those British Fords, its only pre 1980 stuff though.

https://www.facebook.com/yesterford/

Originally Posted by Mr Brooksy

I had some parts come from Italy in less than 2 weeks... Others from Melbourne (before 2nd Covid19 wave) took 3 weeks. A lot of it domestically comes down to who you choose to courier your stuff.

Melbourne freight went to crap in the Stage 4 restrictions when everyone who didn't have to close down had to reduce staff by 30%, all the sudden freight pickups become touch and go, Australia Post/Startrack became even more useless, so much so that I found sending things via other normal road freight couriers was much faster than Startrack's express services.

They've been delaying everything and losing stuff left right and centre, so much so that it ended up quicker getting lost items on another manufacturing run and sending via another courier before things got delivered to customers.

I'm talking 12-14 days Melbourne to Melbourne via Startrack's air services.

Even now the freight pickups are still hit and miss and same with the deliveries from anything involving the Australia Post group.

[smoo]

I did two orders through rock auto and one through FCP last week.
First rockauto took 7 days inc weekend.
Second rockauto and FCP order 8 days.
Can’t complain.

[Rallye Sport]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

There's a small independent business called Yesterford in Bayswater here in Melbourne which specialises in all those British Fords, its only pre 1980 stuff though.

https://www.facebook.com/yesterford/

Cheers, he's my go too man for local supplies.
Shame about the UK Cortina club. Parts were dirt cheap to members even with exchange rates and postage and they put profits back into tooling and reproducing new lines.

Originally Posted by Big_Daz

Where in WA are you? FedEx are still business as usual and if no FedEx coverage where you are at we use TNT or Aus Post to get it there.

I've had no other dramas with other suppliers using Fedex, just that one, I think it was just codeword for 'We can't be **** ed sending it.

[Citroënbender]

Trying the Royal Snail again, just a small packet.

Be interested to see how it goes while Boris is busy piling up bodies in the streets or whatever-it-was-that-he-said.

[ford_17]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

Trying the Royal Snail again, just a small packet.

Be interested to see how it goes while Boris is busy piling up bodies in the streets or whatever-it-was-that-he-said.

Think it will be at least 3 weeks or so, I sent a card from Edinburgh on the 8th April to Brisbane and its not arrived yet. Just normal delivery, not tracked or anything.

[Citroënbender]

Thanks (I think)!

It is of course, the first - and most necessary - part in an assembly.

[mad2]

good ol bannana benders () seems to be taking the longest for items getting down here ... sydney was within a week. via upay. sydney item is here & same item is still in limbo going by post tracking (from queensland)


ohh and it's not the first time either.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Me

Trying the Royal Snail again, just a small packet.

Arrived today; not bad!

[Citroënbender]

Stumbled upon a third party tracker, it offers different delivery timeframes based on recent similar carriage.

https://parcelsapp.com/en

In my case, a package suggested by Fleabay to arrive by the 25th of June was flagged as follows:

Estimated date of arrival at the post office

14 Jun 2021 - 20 Jun 2021, 8 - 14 days remaining

The forecast is not 100% certain, and is based on 56 packages delivered in the last 60 days

[Tassie f100]

Dunno about UK, but the ole girl got a parcel from the US in 8 days last week

[Citroënbender]

Latest experience, Fleabay Global Shipping - they used Pitney Bowes (of course) who handballed it to DHL Express.

6:45AM 3rd June to 10:22AM 11th June. Quite quick!

[lamborghinifan]

Royal mail/aus post. sent out 1/6 from Langley UK, Arrive Sydney 11/6. See how long it takes to finish the Australian leg.

[Rallye Sport]

Had some small bits arrive Royal mail in 7 days, quite surprised.

Sent a Birthday card to a friend two suburbs away via aus post... 11 days

[lamborghinifan]

2 weeks to the front door. Ordered from US at same time, they were one day later.

[Crazy Dazz]

I buy a surprising number of things from the UK.
Having people that can read and write English probably helps. I think the ECC has also made them very competitive, and they are usually incredibly helpful.

Ordered something (with free postage so presumably cheapest rate) on the 1st June, and received it today 17th.
But tracking shows it left UK on the 3rd.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

Had some small bits arrive Royal mail in 7 days, quite surprised.

Sent a Birthday card to a friend two suburbs away via aus post... 11 days

Latest small parcel from the UK, 12 calendar days.
Bunnings special order Melbourne wholesaler to Sydney store - not arrived after fourteen days.

[Franco Cozzo]

Freight inside Australia sucks.

Recently I sent two parcels that were both picked up at the same time, both by air freight.

One to Taiwan, one to regional SE QLD.

Melbourne to Taiwan which went from here to Singapore, to Hong Kong then into Taiwan faster than Melbourne to like 200KM out of Brisbane, both by air freight.

Must have gone by plane to Brisbane, then 2.8L naturally aspirated diesel Hilux Brisbane to regional SE QLD.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Bought some gear online ex-UK on the 10th July, shipped 12th July, arrived 19th July. Royal Mail 2nd class.

I was impressed.

[Citroënbender]

It’s been good to see the lethargy towards small overseas sales which seemed to creep in as a casualty of Brexit, has significantly scaled back.

Shortly to try ordering stuff from France (NOS lock set for the daily); that will be an interesting comparison.

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by Moi

Shortly to try ordering stuff from France (NOS lock set for the daily); that will be an interesting comparison.

Ten calendar days, metropolitan France to Sydney. Can’t knock that speed of airmail. By contrast, six days across town with Express Post…

[x series]

The UK wants our business it can be a challenging to choose USA or UK i have found that America will give one set price for postage which is more that my parts cost but England same parts + postage are cheaper, I cant believe they delivered within 7 DAYS with now i have trust with company DHL and to me England still retains the Tradition of craftsman and trades i.e they still are building New classic Mini's shells ,spinning hub caps, the vehicle industry is alive and thriving. From England to Australia

[mad2]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Freight inside Australia sucks.

Recently I sent two parcels that were both picked up at the same time, both by air freight.

One to Taiwan, one to regional SE QLD.

Melbourne to Taiwan which went from here to Singapore, to Hong Kong then into Taiwan faster than Melbourne to like 200KM out of Brisbane, both by air freight.

Must have gone by plane to Brisbane, then 2.8L naturally aspirated diesel Hilux Brisbane to regional SE QLD.

so i bought some items & paid. this is the current tracking display. it's going from one side of melbum to the other . . . . ..... or one side of port phillip bay to the other

10 Aug 2021 9:26pm - Tracking number provided

10 Aug 2021 9:26pm - Shipping information received by Australia Post

11 Aug 2021 3:41pm - Received by Australia Post CROYDON SOUTH, VIC

11 Aug 2021 9:03pm - Item processed at facility

11 Aug 2021 9:04pm - Item processed at facility DANDENONG SOUTH, VIC

12 Aug 2021 3:11pm - Item processed at facility SOMERTON, VIC

16 Aug 2021 7:15am - Incorrectly sorted and forwarded to correct location GOLDEN SQUARE, VIC


what the hell is it doing going to bendigo????

got betterer luck getting an item from the UK directly!

[Magee]

I was searching for a while to find standard main engine bearing caps for my 124 Sport Fiat. Heaps of places in Australia were selling the undersized bearings but not the standard size. I expanded my search to overseas and found a guy in Greece of all places selling a brand new set for US$40. I asked if he would ship to Australia and what cost would be. Shipping was US$18.50.
Ended up costing me just over $80 Australian and received it in just over 2 weeks. Absolutely wrapped.

[Citroënbender]

I’ve bought quite a lot of bearings out of Latvia and Lithuania. Both countries are good to deal with in English, I think they’re starting to grow away from the Russian era.

[Citroënbender]

Anyone have feedback on the Polish postal service?

Looking at trying to screw down a seller wanting $55 carriage fee for a 250g item in a Jiffy bag when Poczta Polska is only equal to $22 with receipted delivery.

[Citroënbender]

Has USPS gone crazy with postal prices, or is their configurator broken?

I’m seeing $119-odd for a 400g parcel 10x6x2 inches.