SA Post Office Strike

Anyone know how to trace a LCXXXXXXXUS tracking number?
None of the usual suspects recognize the number format. :confused:
 
Jola said:
2014 or 2015 ?

I am waiting for a parcel that was shipped on 19 July 2014.
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2015

I also still have a long lost one from June 2014 which haven't arrived, probably right at the bottom of the pile...
 
dunkyd said:
Anyone know how to trace a LCXXXXXXXUS tracking number?
None of the usual suspects recognize the number format. :confused:
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It's not a tracking number but a customs ID number.
What is a Customs ID?

Non-trackable First Class packages have a customs ID in the form of LN#########US, LC#########US, or LJ#########US. These packages can be tracked within the United States only. After the package departs the nearest international postal hub, tracking stops. This is because the receiving country treats LN/LC/LJ customs ID barcodes as normal mail, which means they are not traceable and your post office will have no record of the package. Registered Mail changes the "L" in the customs ID to "R", "C", or "E". In summary, the first letter of a customs ID indicates:

L: Normal un-registered mail. No tracking.
R or C: Normal registered mail, trackable.
E: Express registered mail (EMS), trackable.
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It is however sometimes trackable. The stuff sent by Ascendia recently was trackable in SA with these LC customs ID numbers.

It depends on who at SAPO scans in your parcel. Sometimes even R items are not trackable.

Usually what is trackable in our system from USA are:

Priority Mail International
Priority Express Mail International (EMS)
Registered Mail.

These are not trackable in SA: (usually)
First Class Mail international
SAL
 
I'm not dismissing the issues and delays experienced last year, but, the service is acceptable for me now.

Over the last 2 months I've ordered 8 items, and the time for delivery to me in Cape Town once hitting JIMC has been between 5 and 10 days. All these items are tracked, learnt the hard way untracked items don't make it out the other end.
 
Sorry we can't deliver, we ran out of petrol.
 
Is the rumors true that many of their vehicles were taken back by AVIS for non-payment? Also have not received any mail for over a week now.
 
I've also heard rumors that the post office are going to retrench a whole bunch of people. Even speed services are affected.
 
We wanted to send a parcel to family in the Eastern Cape. The PO official strongly recommended we go to a courier to get it there, as he could not guarantee if it would get there.

Privatise the Post Office and run it like a business. Get rid of the lazy and scum-bag miscreants. Fire their asses! Get rid of the unions.

/dreams
 
McT said:
We wanted to send a parcel to family in the Eastern Cape. The PO official strongly recommended we go to a courier to get it there, as he could not guarantee if it would get there.

Privatise the Post Office and run it like a business. Get rid of the lazy and scum-bag miscreants. Fire their asses! Get rid of the unions.

/dreams
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PO is supposed to be a national service. If it becomes another courier there would be no use for it any more.
 
So I am trying to find out what is happening because I wanted to risk using the post office but this is what I found

http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/a7c67980497849e48a06ab623266b54e/PostundefinedOfficeundefinedinundefinedfinancialundefinedcrisis-20151408

Drivers at Witspos, one of Post Office’s major mail sorting centres have been idling for two weeks and as a result the delivery of mail and parcels has been affected. This is because the company can no longer afford to pay for fuel.
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I phoned my local PO to ask if I can pickup my mail. He said no. I have to wait for them to deliver it.
 
Is there any movement on recent parcels? I wanna order something from Hong Kong
 
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