[snailandthewhale]

Hello all,

Going to email our CO tommorrow and see if it's ok to submit our incomplete ITA.

If we are submitting next week, I was wondering how most people got it down to NZIS? I just wanted to use a courier company but OH doesn't trust them not to lose it and wants to take a day off work to deliver it himself.

What did everyone else do?

Karen

[Lupin]

I worried about that too but in the end opted for Royal Mail special delivery, which I could track online and would be delivered the next day before noon. Was fine :)

[marcia]

We did the same - used Royal mail special delivery - tracked it online - we have also used the same for other documents we had to send and our passports that we sent last week! No problems.

But you have to do whatever you feel most comfortable with! :yes

[StevieD]

Ditto Karen, Royal Mail SD is good enough, save Simon a trip to the smoke, or is that what he wants! :laugh

Steve

[willsken]

Same for us. Royal Mail Special Delivery Tracker. Got there no probs. :nice1

[firstkings]

We hand delivered ours. I really didn't trust Royal Mail (despite the great delivery stats, but above all I had laboured long and hard to put everything together - the medicals cost a fortune etc. I was happier to hand deliver and the train down from where we lived wasn't too long. If you are worried about the post - hand deliver.

We had to send on two birth certs that I had sent the wrong ones of (Half certs not full), after the delivery date. We sent them overnight special delivery etc. A week later the NZIS said they hadn't got them. The Royal Mail website said they had been delivered, but couldn't provide electronic proof on the computer....so where were they, had they been delivered or not, if so whey no proof etc? We ordered replacement birth certs....cost+stress. Phoned royal mail - they would investigate, they said. It'll take a couple of weeks (!! WHAT?!), by which time we would be here in NZ (wonder if they are still looking for them). In the end they were on the wrong desk at NZIS.

Royal Mail did the job of delivering, but not the job of giving piece of mind. I should have gone down again and hand delivered them. (IMHO)


Sorry to go against the flow! I'm probably an exception (lot's of people say so!) to an otherwise flawless system.

Hope this doesn't stress you out!

David

[Moorf]

I'm a worry bucket and would have hand delivered mine in UK... I hand delivered ours here in NZ and spent 10 mins going through it with my case officer to ensure everything he needed was there.

[Trigirl]

I’d never use Royal Mail / Parcelforce for something I cared about after some very bad experiences earlier this year.

In May my OH and I got married in Italy. It very nearly didn’t happen as Parcelforce lost our marriage application documents that we’d got from the UK registrar confirming our freedom to marry abroad. They’d been sent track and trace. Parcelforce refused to speak to us. Then lied to us (said they’d been misaddressed and hence returned to sender – they didn’t even have the decency to sound embarrassed when we pointed out we were the senders!) Then told us that track and trace didn’t work outside the UK anyway. Then told us that basically their liability was limited to the cost of postage and so they didn’t give a s**t.

We applied for emergency replacements and sent them DHL. They got there *just* in time. The originals turned up a couple of weeks later in Coventry (not even the right direction for going to Rome!)

While this was happening we sent OH’s Tag watch (an engagement present from me) back to Switzerland for a service. Tag received it, serviced it, sent it back via Parcelforce. Surprise surprise it never turned up. We got a replacement via the UK jewellers that had organised the service but not in time for OH to wear it at our wedding.

They are completely useless. You might be able to track something with them. But what happens when it goes wrong is just plain awful.

[Pip]

I delivered ours in person, but I work in London, so just took a slightly longer lunch hour. Not sure if I would have done so if I didn't work in London. Anyway, the irony was that the NZIS office was closed for a staff training day (no mention of this on the website), although NZ house itself was open, so I ended up leaving it with someone at the reception desk, with no receipt, nothing. I was a bit worried, but a couple of days later my online status changed to "application received", so I knew at least they had it.

If your OH does decide to travel, might be worth checking they are definitely open/available to talk to!

[snailandthewhale]

Thanks for all your replies!
I had talked him into using royal mail until he saw those last couple of posts and now he's hand delivering....
At least he's having a grand day out in London ( I think you were right, Stevie D. )
and I'll check that they're open!
Thanks!

Karen