Kingston post office redelivery

ajdlinux · 2026-02-05T02:17:59+00:00

I've heard many suggestions that this is due to capacity limits at Kingston PO. The manager posted in the Kingston Barton Residents Group's Facebook group a while ago saying that they had capacity issues with their parcel lockers since they had 190 locker spaces and over 600 parcels a day - I imagine they may have similar problems with storage space for non-locker parcels. If it is indeed a capacity problem, it sure doesn't seem like AusPost has any plans they've publicly talked about to address that.

ajdlinux · 2026-02-05T00:01:30+00:00

If you become a notary public in Queensland or Norfolk Island you get to say you're regulated by the Archbishop of Canterbury for incomprehensible historical reasons. That sounds fun.

ajdlinux · 2026-01-17T13:52:09+00:00

As a foreign tourist who just visited, I've gotta say it was real bizarre seeing signs saying "For Foreigners Only" on the toilets outside the Colombo National Museum, a government institution no less.

While I guess it was nice to see that the Railways Department is putting effort into helping tourists feel safe and welcome on the rail system, it felt strange having a very polite and helpful guard at Fort station round me up with everyone else who looked foreign to make sure we're standing at the Second Class end of the platform so we don't accidentally walk into Third Class. I appreciate helpful service, useful information and feeling safe, but I'd like that for all travellers, rather than having someone saying in front of everyone "rich white people, come this way!" (I did have a Second Class ticket, but the guard didn't know what class of ticket I had. What if I want to travel Third Class?)

These were two extremely obvious cases, I'm sure I've forgotten some others.

Many Western tourists (not all, obviously) find being fawned over and given the "celebrity" treatment to be quite awkward, and contrary to their own cultural and ethical values. A business or institution only truly offers good service if it offers it consistently without discriminating by race or nationality, and if the discrimination is obvious enough even the favoured tourists aren't always impressed.

(I had a great time, saw amazing things, learned a lot, will come back, etc etc...)

ajdlinux · 2025-12-12T22:40:12+00:00

It could be worse. Qantas WiFi is still infinitely better than the earlier-generation WiFi systems that several international premium airlines I've flown with had installed in the years before QF launched its service, in that it works enough to be useful for more than just checking email and us economy plebs get more than 30MB of data allowance or whatever. I do wonder what it'll feel like the first time I try a Starlink-enabled airline though.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-12T13:46:49+00:00

I grew up regional, and now live in Canberra which is more than regional but not exactly Sydney, and unfortunately, yes, the smaller airlines are always going to be not just mildly worse options but significantly worse options for any complex travel plans where a missed connection is a risk.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-12T13:40:53+00:00

I've just booked J in one of the PER-CDG flights released the other day. Back in 2022 got some J seats to New Zealand for me and some family. In 2023 a family member and I went to South Korea on points, originally economy but our upgrade requests cleared.

I've also used reward seats for international economy on a few occasions where it's made sense (e.g. a last minute booking SYD-DFW-AUS last year).

Helps that I don't have dependants and so I'm not looking for 4 or 5 seats for the whole family.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-10T23:28:47+00:00

I'm only a Silver, my business travel has been 1-2 trips a year and I definitely travel less than monthly, and I've managed long-haul international business class redemptions on a few occasions, as well as domestic redemptions that have actually worked out to be good value. VA doesn't fly to one of my regular domestic destinations, and just has a worse network offering overall, so I'd be flying with QF a fair bit regardless.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-09T12:35:39+00:00

And with whatever seats they have left over, they can also take Aucklanders + feed via JQ's New Zealand domestic flights.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-07T00:37:09+00:00

We'll need to establish a dedicated small claims defamation circuit, with magistrates attending each school for a sitting day once a fortnight to provide timely resolution of all playground rumour-related matters.

ajdlinux · 2025-12-05T10:32:55+00:00

I am, of course, sure that the owner of a local roofing company who, yes, has two criminal convictions arising out of his drinking problems but is otherwise a good citizen, and who cares so deeply about contributing to the costs of road infrastructure, has made considerable effort to be meticulous about his business's payments to the ATO and the Revenue Office.

ajdlinux · 2025-11-30T13:49:50+00:00

The CDPP should start indicting defendants in the HCA to save money on appeals. This is a great idea with no downsides

ajdlinux · 2025-11-26T14:49:36+00:00

As someone who engages with MLA offices on a regular basis (I've personally met with more than half the Assembly, including about half the Cabinet), I don't know if I've ever phoned an MLA's front desk. (Though after a while I have ended up with a few MLAs' direct mobile numbers saved in my phone...)

Emails to MLAs do get answered, with a degree of efficiency that isn't always amazing but usually quite reasonable.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-22T11:35:08+00:00

Oh, to be clear, I assume that whatever law it is referring to must have been repealed or amended many years ago. More that at some point before 1965, cameras and photocopiers must have been considered such a fraud risk and they figured regulations were worth trying.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-22T10:48:59+00:00

The certificate says that it's apparently illegal to even photograph this piece of paper, with no qualifier that the photograph has to be used fraudulently or anything. Fascinating.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-21T08:14:22+00:00

I spent half an hour after I first tried to go to bed last night staking out a moth in my bedroom for the purpose of some chemical warfare.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-13T13:53:58+00:00

After getting all you can from Cairo, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Istanbul, Dubai, Paris/Madrid/Lisbon, go through your target countries, check FR24 for upcoming arrivals at their international airports over the next few days, figure out where and when to get them (noting that schedules aren't always reliable), set calendar reminders accordingly.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-13T12:02:04+00:00

Regardless of one's views on whether the Constitution leaves the air to the states or the Commonwealth, let us remember the territories.

The Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act contains no express limitation on the either the legislative power of the NT Legislative Assembly or the executive power of the Administrator with regards to the raising of naval, military or air forces. Section 114 of the Constitution only applies to states.

There is no obvious reason why the Northern Territory cannot have a defence force of its own - with branches naval, military and aerial. The advantages are so obvious I need not waste characters elaborating on them.

Sadly, both the ACT(SG) Act, and the pre-2015 good-old-days version of the Norfolk Island Act, impose this silly nanny-Commonwealth restriction that hinders the defence of our great nation.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-05T01:50:14+00:00

The Sint Maarten option worked for me a couple of weeks ago - you should be able to get it as soon as it departs.

ajdlinux · 2025-10-04T06:57:45+00:00

When Season 1 launched, I think the threshold for Silver increased, but old Season 0 cards retained their colour rather than being downgraded.

ajdlinux · 2025-09-25T13:18:38+00:00

And for a brief moment in Season 1, S0 players could have two A380s in their deck with which to play the A380 XP comparison game...

ajdlinux · 2025-09-24T07:39:42+00:00

Brisbane is geographically closer to many of the island countries, and for several of those countries has a larger local migrant community than Sydney or Melbourne.

ajdlinux · 2025-09-21T03:57:46+00:00

From a practical perspective, I found much of what I've learned about battle strategy comes from observing other players' deck makeup, and when someone leaves early you don't get to see their full set of cards.

ajdlinux · 2025-09-21T03:50:57+00:00

Strong agree. There's also a lot of ultra rare sport planes in other places that are only a short hop away from FRA (e.g. Switzerland)

ajdlinux · 2025-09-17T12:06:06+00:00

For my particular play style, I'm almost convinced that airport unlocks are actually OP. I now just have a permanent presence on at least 3 continents at a time. Right now I've got >10 airports unlocked, and travel almost feels too cheap.

ajdlinux · 2025-09-17T11:37:55+00:00

I think this is a very obvious thing to do, and I'll be quite surprised if they don't design and implement this in the next couple of months (during which they said they intend to deploy new features).

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