I still have a stack of Avant Cards … but I miss them. A friend has just become a Postcrosser and I gave her a pile of them for her stash … I didn’t let her see the tears fall gently
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I feel so frustrated by dealing with my local post office - the staff are lovely but don’t seem to know the rules consistently enough for my liking. I might start going out to Auspost(s) at local shopping centres near me, even though the travel is not great on my disability…
Today’s issue: are those prepaid postcards NOT prepaid worldwide? I genuinely thought they were and so does the Auspost website, but not the lady I dealt w/ today =_= I just paid the $3 to China because I could not be bothered with the arguing and I was holding people up…
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If it says on the non-picture/text side that it includes worldwide postage then it includes postage to anywhere, including China.
I have found that by using facebook and sending a private message to Aust Post about an issue that I get a reasonable quick response. Ask them to have a chat with that post office.
Just be aware that some maxicards don’t include worldwide postage, they have the square box/place stamp here on the text side instead.
The exact wording was ‘postage to australia and delivery world-wide’ so I suppose that might be the issue? I bought them assuming that meant okay to post world-wide so I’m honestly pretty confused ^^;
That message includes postage paid for worldwide delivery.
Breaking the message down, it means that they have to be posted in Australia and they include delivery to any country in the world including Australia.
Those are pre-paid postcards.
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So I was right! I don’t think I’ll complain this time, my energy is pretty limited… but what I might do from now on is address them normally and just put them in a red post box.
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No! They are not lovely.
They are morons who don’t know their job.
This is a standard practice for the past 30 years…
Even I who arrived to this country 2 years ago, know that…
Next time tell them it’s not their job to accept the card or not and that they are special people in the line who check for correct postage…
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Mm, my local are usually nice, at least - I give them the benefit of the doubt bc it’s a verrry small LPO and a lot of the staff are on the older side.
That said, I do think I’ll avoid handing letters/postcards in to them from now on, unless I need to buy the stamps beforehand. Red post box outside it is!
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I am sure they are nice people. Apparently they are missing this piece of information…
I’ve definitely experienced this too and I think it’s a common experience dealing with LPOs in particular.
We’ve all encountered staff who don’t know the correct rates, don’t know you can use domestic stamps +10% for international, and staff who don’t recognize older stamps and therefore think they’re invalid or fraudulent.
So frustrating and it’s sometimes very hard to have the discussion with them without being passive aggressive and “WeLL aCtUaLly” with them when they’re the expert and I’m a rando customer.
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and for the very first time in 16 years i am blocked from sending postcards
" The Postcrossing system detected that most of your postcards to China have expired. This is affecting all its receivers who are owed a postcard from you.
Due to the unusual amount of expired postcards, your account is temporarily blocked from requesting more addresses until this issue is fixed.
Our system will automatically unblock your account when the number of expired postcards returns to a normal level.
[id numbers/ details]
If you have already sent postcards to all the addresses above, all you need to do now is wait until some of them arrive and then you can send more postcards."
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i currently have 10 cards travelling to china - as of yesterday 7 are expired
my average travel to china is 46 days all time - last year 2022 it was 121 days and prepandemic 2019 it was 46 days
so for 7 of 10 to china i have been blocked but not in the midst of the pandemic when i had over 100 expired cards
4 of those 7 (to china) have not registered cards since may - and the algorithm automatically asuumes i am yet to send my cards - seriously - why would i wait to send cards to places like china when i know they’ll take months to arrive
so i guess i’ll be waiting another 60 days before i can send anything - lucky for me they cannot count the dozens which have fallen off the travelling list @ 366 days …
i am so over expired cards …worldwide…
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I really do feel for you.
It’s clearly not your fault.
Everybody sedning cards from Australia knows that China is a difficult place to send cards to.
I have two expired cards and both of them are sent to China
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Hey Krystiina,
This is bad news! I’m sorry to read this…and surprised because I thought mail to China was still something of a problem…so this would be taken into account.
Maybe comment in this thread:
…so that if it’s happening a lot someone might do something about it?
Hope you get some registered soon.
I’m sitting on one 60+ expired to China, but the person only registers all their incoming once a month…and mine wasn’t registered at the end of June…so I’ve gotta wait until end of July 
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Sooo I’m officially one of you all!! I arrived in Australia yesterday, and I’ve really been enjoying it so far. I think I’ve done a good job at warding off jet lag, but then again it’s 5am and I’m wide awake, so who knows. I think I’ll send my first Australian official postcards today! What a way to celebrate my new 50 cards sent number:tada:
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Welcome to Australia!
Stay safe and have a great time. 
It is a great country with so much to see.
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Welcome to Oz!!
I’m sorry about the poopy weather we’ve thrown on today. At least you had some sunshine yesterday. I think it’ll come out again later today!
If you need any local advice, I’m happy to try and help. 
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Welcome to Aus!! Depending on where you are, melb. is set to have a meet in August so if you’ll be around for that have a squizz at the australia meetup part of the forums 
Thanks everyone! Very excited to be here 
Welcome. What area are you at and what are your plans?
It seems to me that Australia Post are not making as many prepaid postcards anymore…thoughts