11mo ago

NZ Post truck catches fire, hundreds of parcels destroyed

www.rnz.co.nz

About 2000 parcels have been destroyed after an NZ Post truck caught fire last week.
The truck caught fire in Te Kuiti in the early hours of 31 July, with parcels on board bound for delivery in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Taupō, NZ Post said.

I hope no one has been waiting for a delivery.

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Oh no, won't someone think of all those critical Temu shipments! Anyway...
(Seriously, there must be a lot of irreplaceable stuff that goes through the post - this is actually a fairly big deal and I'm sure there will be people quite badly affected. Horrible to think about actually)
- Yeah, if it was just temu trash I'd be reaching for a light myself, but... Let's just hope it's not registered mail with passports and stuff that matters (rego would be another massive PITA)
  
  rego isn't so bad, you can go to a lot of AA centres and they can print the window card there & then.
  
  Given how long stuff takes to arrive from Temu, Ali Express etc, I'd be pretty annoyed about even that.
This is pretty poor communication, I'd expect better from an organisation like NZ Post, especially considering how important their service is.
There could be medications, and other vital stuff in that truck.
- They should have been more pro-active about notifying customers about the incident, but it's incredibly difficult to identify every parcel individually at first. They don't typically get logged to a a truck for each leg of the journey, so the only way to identify what was lost would be to wait a day or two until it is reasonable to expect that everything would have been scanned to a depot or delivery, then tally up what hasnt been scanned.
Noooo.
Someone's parcel was.... Too Hot To Handle?!!??!!

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