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NZ Post truck catches fire, hundreds of parcels destroyed (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rego isn't so bad, you can go to a lot of AA centres and they can print the window card there & then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's the personal stuff I'd worry about.

One of my friends once messaged me that he'd just written me a really long handwritten letter so long his hand hurt and it was in the post to me. I never got the letter and I never heard from him again, his profile went inactive, I haven't been able to track him down.

I sometimes wonder what was in it and whether me not replying to it (since I couldn't) made us not be friends any more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Given how long stuff takes to arrive from Temu, Ali Express etc, I'd be pretty annoyed about even that.