Hi All Is anybody else in the Land of OZ experiencing incoming mail delays from overseas? More specifically, USPS Priority, EMS, DHL Express and Royal Mail? I've got some orders on the water from last month that tracking shows have left the country of origin on 28th October, and no arrival in Oz yet.
Please don't take this as harshly as it is going to sound, but we get posts like this quite a lot.
People notice a slowing of their own mail and tend to wonder if an entire country's mail system is somehow affected, or in your case, if the entire planet is experiencing a massive delay.
The fact of the matter is that there are hundreds of reasons that mail slows down. Even with this global crackdown on DNMs, ultimately they are a microscopic potion of the mail that is sent around the world, and a single employee of a sort office being an hour late to work is enough to cause a bottleneck that lasts a day or so.
OZ has a very rigorous customs department and even if mail has arrived, it has not necessarily been scanned into the customs office. Nobody is going to be able to give you an accurate answer for why your own mail isn't arriving, especially since it seems to be coming from several countries. They've always been astonishingly thorough so I don't think the recent events will have caused them to make many, if any changes. They've always been far ahead of the pack.
I do realize just how much it sucks to be waiting on something to show up. Years ago I lived in the USA and used to order Nurofen Plus on clearnet from NZ about twice a month. Typically they would put it in transit the next day and I would check the tracking number at least once or twice a day, just so I could see progress. I knew it so well that it took three days to hit customs, 24 hours there, two more to my sort facility, one to my local office, and generally the next day out for delivery. If it changed by even a single day I would start coming up with all sorts of ridiculous notions about what might have happened. But ultimately, it always showed up. It sucks to wait, but there's really nothing else to do about it.