#packidge — Public Fediverse posts

The price of a bicycle cargo trailer (minus bonus, minus coupons, minus coins) has just dropped below the cost of a tank of petrol for my rarely-used tiny little Yaris.

So instead of trying to get the grocery total over whatever the minimum is for Click-and-Collect, while restricting the items to those which will Tetris into bicycle panniers and a backpack, I'll now have the option of, say, buying $100 worth of toilet paper and riding home with my goodies in the trailer.🚲😂

Or even better, riding my bike+trailer to a service station with a jerry can in the trailer. 🤪

Now to wait for #packidge ⏳

#BikeTooter

UPS emailed me to say they're about to deliver a parcel "Sat, 12th April". Or, maybe part of their system is cursed and uses middle-endian date format, which screwed-up how a different part of their system parses dates, and the parcel is due to arrive today? 🤷🏼‍♀️

#UPS #Packidge #DateFormats #WhatIsTime

Post office lady just explained to me, as if I was an idiot, that because of the tariffs that Trump has put on Australian goods sold in China, Aust Post can no longer leave cards for an unsuccessful package delivery attempt.
Further, if I don't get a card, I should download the Aust Post app, so that I'll be able to tell when my package will be delivered. 🤯🤪

I'd become used to the multiple emails from Aust Post, the fairly accurate tracking links, the SMSs on day of delivery, and the timely arrival of my local delivery person.

Now, you get NOTHING! 🤯😡

And apparently now, buying in Australia from China can't be tracked because of Trump???

I only did some enquiring after a weird AliExpress message about customs, and searching the tracking number showed the item had been sitting at the PO for days.

#packidge #AustraliaPost

Mystery solved, but not resolved 😡

Just argued with a THIRD courier who tried to deliver a parcel for the person who got their own address wrong.

Ended up telling them to try the address where she actually lives, and if it turns out to be wrong, they can leave it here, but I can show them the SMS from the location-challenged lady about parcel #2

#packidge

Ooh! #packidge ! Excitement! 🎉

My first carbon wheels (and first significant $$ amount #AliExpress purchase) just arrived! The expected delivery date was 17th July, so I'm Very Packidge 😄😁🤪

My #bicycle and I shall have fun this weekend🚴

The timing worked out really well - I waited until the special deal on the wheels was confirmed before ordering the other bits (tyres, tubes, rotors, cassette, etc.)
The other bits have been arriving, and the last pieces arrived with the wheels.

#BikeTooter

:pakidge: delivered 2 metres from where I was sitting and I didn't hear a thing #packidge ninjas

Out For Delivery #Packidge #Packagealysis

Cool and drizzly, a good day to appreciate outdoor parcel lockers #packidge

5 #packidge in flight, new record for me

Interesting use of old tech yesterday...

I went out for a coffee without my phone (on Sundays we have a no-screens day), because I could use my Apple Watch to pay for it.

While out, I remembered I had a parcel to pick up from the Australia Post parcel lockers nearby on Bourke Street. But because I had no phone, I didn't have the pick-up code.

However, I noticed an old Telstra payphone across the street. Calls from those are free within Australia nowadays, so I phoned Narrelle and got her to read me the code. I recorded it by entering as a number in the calculator on my watch!

Then I picked up the parcel. 📦

Thanks, 20th century technology. :)

#packidge #package

AusPost still expects my #packidge to be delivered yesterday, keen to see if they can make it

.. #packidge safely north of the border

Why my AliExpress #packidge in Melbourne?

Package at Chullora :pakidge: #packidge

A #packidge in a parcel locker doesn't really exist until AusPost's backend catches up and sends a notification (hurry up)

Imagine being a #packidge and just having to wait at an airport for 2 days

I’m bored so this counts as exciting today #packidge

I am proud to announce that I am on board for delivery at Chullora and I look forward to my expected arrival Today :pakidge: #packidge

Does a #packidge really exist before it has a tracking code?

The young waiter at this cafe looked at the cover of the 'Doctor Who and the Daleks' novelisation and said "Hey that's really vintage vintage Doctor Who, isn't it? Sick." Who could say fairer than that?

#packidge #DoctorWho

Whoa there are more 1964 books from my brother! I mistook the original message from the post office as being for only one parcel. They put them in two different lockers. :)

#packidge

Remember that mystery packidge? It contained some books my brother belatedly sent me for my 60th birthday - he had put together a list of titles published in 1964, and already gave some of them to me. Good reading there!

#packidge

There is a mysterious parcel for me at my Parcel Locker. I wonder what it can be? I don't remember ordering anything. 📦

#packidge

Packidge #packidge

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