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[Guest post] Have any of your parcels been lost on the way to your house?

17 November 2012 29 Comments

Dear Readers, 

It is with immense pleasure that I’m welcoming another guest writer for this post. If I tell you that he is our local rant master, you probably know whom I’m talking about.

Please join your hands together for the one&only…. Le Tushal xD
(He will hate me for this intro haha) 

Hello.

If you’re used to online purchases, some of you can be as frustrated as me when it concerns the number of parcels which never reached me. For the past weeks, I have several parcels declared as ‘lost’ after reaching  Mauritius even despite most of them have a tracking number. And the eBay sellers need to ship the parcels again to me, with the inconveniences (for both the seller and me) and additional costs (for the sellers). Or you can still go for a refund after discussing with your seller. And in case you are still wondering about the ZIP code you need when filling your address, please refer to this article.

Recently there was a post office worker who gave a statement to a newspaper that the parcels are not LOST in Mauritius but at other post offices in the world. What a load of crap!

It is as if all of a sudden, all the post offices in the world decided to steal all the parcels! Some of the items I have lost among others are:

  1. Android live view watch
  2. Android live view watch (yes again)
  3. Aviator designer sunglasses x 3
  4. Solar led fog light
  5. Electric shaver
  6. Front cap cover for Nikon
  7. Punch bag for my mobile

Have any of your parcels got ‘lost’ too?

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  • http://pramoduniverse.com/ Pramod

    Euhhhtaaah Tushal… Enfin hope this does not happen again. :(

  • http://themediaguru.blogspot.com carrotmadman6

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    Memory card reader
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    Memory card reader
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  • http://www.yashvinblogs.com Yashvin Awootar

    I guess that I have been lucky. *touch-wood*

    1. Arm band case pouch for mobile (but it finally reached home after the seller dispatched a second one)
    2. Galaxy SIII pouch

    Tnat’s all, as far as I remember.

  • Mishy

    sadly yes…ive been getting most of my stuffs shipped from Australia for the past 7 years…normally the time frame would be within 1 week to 10 days at most. my friend posted 1 parcel a month ago for me and am still waiting on it :( …Australia Post confirms dispatching,,,but here no one seems to have a clue. had office wear n classic accessories in that and they were defo expensive :( . Although looks like it lost its way,am just giving it another 2 weeks before giving up for good :( .

  • Nitish

    Nokia Asha 303 pouch x2
    Molex to 3 pin converter
    Tintin VHS (i know it’s way back but it happened)

  • Tushal

    One of those parcels had a special tracking number. The package arrived in Mauritius Airport. But from there, no track. And I never received it.
    And in all these, poor sellers on ebay. They refund you for the incompetency of others.

  • http://tinyurl.com/2f7olfl Mike

    I have been having the same problem lately. In the past 2 months two of my orders have not arrived. One parcel from UK containing a PC cable and the other from France is a book. It is getting very frustrating. The first order was reimbursed and the second one is being resent. I am sure the problem is here at the airport. I would not be surprised that one day we read in the newspaper that there was some stealing/trafficking going on. Up until now I was ordering DVDs and books from Amazon without problems.

  • crypto

    There’s no complaint bureau or something? The post office supposed to be private now, so if they are robbing their customers, they’re the losers in the long term.

    As always, a few incompetents/fraudsters spoil it for everyone in this country

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.banjeet Jimmy Banjeet

    i’ve had a few sellers who refused to send to mauritius just because its part of Africa (it’s where scam happens) … A seller who had a item reported as lost while sending to Mauritius is very likely to refuse selling to another person of the same location :D

    GOD bless america

  • Reuben

    I recently received a parcel after about a 100 days… but it’s true that for the past two months… there are 3 parcels that haven’t reached me yet…

  • http://dpkg.me/ Mozammil Khodabacchas

    Laptop pouch
    iPhone screen protectors

  • http://dpkg.me/ Mozammil Khodabacchas

    Also, i received a pair of shoes i never bought.

  • http://www.nirvan.pagooah.com/ Nirvan Pagooah

    Casio Watch – Went on refund
    Received PC ASUS motherboard in 2 pieces

  • http://www.facebook.com/khalid.suleiman.121 Khalid Suleiman

    to all those peoples parcels which were lost…did any of you ever use USPS express shipping and your parcel got lost?anyone?

  • Tushal

    @facebook-100004446253250:disqus I have had 1 parcel lost using USPS standard shipping.

  • Tushal

    The way it is going, soon they will refuse to ship to Mauritius.

  • http://www.facebook.com/didier.bephage Didier Bephage

    Pair of boots !

    and at least 2-3 other minor value stuff (below 10USD)

  • adarsh

    Wow, that a concidence, I recently ordered a pressure steam cleaner more than two months ago…it has not yet arrived, I even went to the post office with a USPS tracking number, they told me its a non-registered parcel and they cannot track in in their system by just looking a the tracking number…which makes me ponder that any of the employee there seeing a parcel with such number can, of course in theory, take the item for him without worrying about any consequences. There by just looking at the lost items mentioned here by the “few” of you is enormous. Maybe it is just me, it would seems that items they deems they know they can use it for themselves..just never reaches you. I think we should make a survey among us and make a list of lost items at the post office. One thing for sure, in the long run, it would not be surprising that ebay will warn or even prevent its sellers from shipping in mauritius. If you would have noticed, a lot of items that could have been shipped in mauritius from amazon is no longer possible…C’est un scandal in the making.. ;)

  • LuckyMan

    Consider yourself lucky! :D

  • http://tinyurl.com/2f7olfl Mike

    Yes Amazon.uk/fr/com no longer shipping to Mauritius even for simple things like PC cables. The country is getting black-listed as too many reports of non-deliveries.

  • Tushal

    I had a seller on ebay who was shipping to Mauritius. But when I lost the item, he refunded me and removed Mauritius from the shipping list.

  • Michael

    I just ordered a ladies wallet clutch bag for my sister. After 2 months nothing.. The seller just resent the item and now i’m waiting… Mauritius C’est un plaisir :/

  • http://twitter.com/khalids19 Khalid Salim

    yeah but i came to know that if you use express mail shipping your item neve gets lost

  • http://www.yashvinblogs.com Yashvin Awootar

    There’s a difference between USPS “standard” and its “express mail” shipping.
    From experience, express mail shipping has frequent updates in the tracking and the delivery to Mauritius is done in 4-6 days.

  • Mishy

    A lil update…my parcel found its way finally :) ….got the lil green card from the PO today…ill go in on Sat to get it :)

  • Shalini

    Its not only ebay or any other online sites.. Im abroad and from time to time I send a couple of things for my nephew and nieces.. its no electrical goods or anything of that sort.. Just a few tshirts clothes ish things and all! Still gets lost! And that too registered!! And I do have a tracking number.. telling me where my parcel is at! But when it hits mru! It will only say ”on route to customer”.. Till now it is still on route to customer! What a joke! I get the whole thing abt ”losing” electrical things and all!they are,expensive and why not steal it coz they know they will get away with it!! But clothing! -.- and that kids stuff!! :(

  • http://twitter.com/khalids19 Khalid Salim

    “well said”

  • NamD

    It’s not just parcels that get ‘lost’ or ‘stolen’ shall i say. i recently sent a simple birthday card to my sister-in-law in mauritius with some money in there as her bday present.. BIG mistake.. although the card reached her within a week, the full amount in the card didn’t. half of that amount had ‘disappeared’ before reaching her house…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001638092507 Seny Raj

    Mine is just disgusting as one of my relative was about to make an operation Ive sent her some money from uk but they have the guts to steal the money and the sent the empty envlope to her thts really disgusting If they want me to give them some alms as charity they jst have to ask me but not stealing other people money those bastard

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