That's very interesting. My experience has been that the pricing on NZ Post website is normally higher (sometimes MUCH higher) than what I'd pay at the actual post shop.
Goes to show it pays to do your research! Good work. Thanks, Nathan Web controlled gadgets http://control.kennedytechnology.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sid Bachtiar Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 4:28 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] [OT] How a website saved me $12.50 I just tried to send a parcel to Invercargill and the nzpost staff told me it would cost me $22 when in fact I have checked on nzpost.co.nz and it was $9.50. So I told them about it but they still insisted telling me that there's no way they'll send it for $9.50, because Invercargill is far south. They told me may be I didn't select Invercargill correctly, etc, etc. So I went back home (I live very closed by) and printed out the calculation from nzpost website and shown it to them (politely of course, I still want the parcel to arrive in one piece). The printout clearly says from Wellington to Invercargill then the dimension and weight and shows the cost as $9.50. I also pointed out how their calculation of volumetric weight was [blatantly] wrong. And this is where I almost got charged the extra $12.50 (because something or something can not do basic math!). Volumetric weight? what's that? well ... check this out ... nzpost website has the formula ... http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/ProductsAndServices/PIP/VolumetricWei ght.htm It basically is the volume (width x height x thickness) in kg multiplied by 200 ... if volumetric weight is more than the normal weight ... you'll pay for the greater one As soon as I showed my printout to them, they backed off and only charge me the $9.50 as printed from nzpost website. This makes me wonder how many people have paid multiple times more than they should to send their parcels. I love nzpost.co.nz and Internet :) -- Blue Horn Ltd - System Development http://bluehorn.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
