Fasttech epacket tracking help needed

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Can anyone recommend a good tracking service  for epacket tracking? ... The Fasttech tracking service (17 track) is giving me no useful info ... 6 days from shipping and all it gives me is a load of Chinese words followed by "gblala".

[Perpetua]

These any good @yinyang?

track-chinapost.com/starteub.php

www.ems.com.cn/english.html

Plucked off of the Ebay community boards - I never track anything must confess, it arrives when it gets here.

[buggritt]

You will find a translate option at the bottom where the five lines of chinese info are. But let me do it for you. Your packet has been sent to Heathrow.
Did I or did I not caution you about getting too giddy over the miracles performed by FT?
I had one vanish by the same method. One took 3 weeks from sent to GB then plopped on the doormat.

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Sept 18, 2015 6:03:49 GMT Perpetua said:

These any good @yinyang?

track-chinapost.com/starteub.php

www.ems.com.cn/english.html

Plucked off of the Ebay community boards - I never track anything must confess, it arrives when it gets here.

Thanks for that Perpetua. ... Turns out that I wasn't getting full info because I was on my phone (guy on FT forums helped with this) so I downloaded the 17 track android app and I am now getting full info in English   

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Sept 18, 2015 6:15:44 GMT buggritt said:

You will find a translate option at the bottom where the five lines of chinese info are. But let me do it for you. Your packet has been sent to Heathrow.
Did I or did I not caution you about getting too giddy over the miracles performed by FT?
I had one vanish by the same method. One took 3 weeks from sent to GB then plopped on the doormat.

That was the problem buggritt ... I was on my phone and was only getting one line of info in Chinese and there was no translate option available.
Got it sorted now (see above) so all OK. Thanks for your help.

[buggritt]

I won't be using the "fast" service again. Hope yours arrives quicker than mine did. I prefer the free option, Singapore usually. It takes two weeks or less, and I'm stress free.

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Sept 18, 2015 6:30:28 GMT buggritt said:

I won't be using the "fast" service again. Hope yours arrives quicker than mine did. I prefer the free option, Singapore usually. It takes two weeks or less, and I'm stress free.

This is the first time that I have used it after hearing everyone rave about it ... Depends on how this goes whether or not I use it again. I must admit that I never had any problems with the normal service.

[Deleted]

Mine's on the same boat! first time for me too, Got one order on Singapore Free and one epacket both sent at the same time. Interesting to see which one turns up first.

[bones3]

i have had the so called express epacket take 3 weeks on numerous occasions

gear best shipping is much better but getting it out of there werehouse takes a lot longer

so its swings and roundabouts really

think i will stick to normal registered with FT from now on

[collie2011]

Gearbest Express is sent by Yodel. Who does FT Epacket get passed to once it's in the UK?

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Sept 18, 2015 11:38:57 GMT collie2011 said:

Gearbest Express is sent by Yodel. Who does FT Epacket get passed to once it's in the UK?

Post Office dropped mine last time that was the free delivery, my bad

[Q]

I've only used the e-packet once, and it came RM just like the rest

[sydsut]

Used E-packet a number of times and the slowest part is after it arrives in UK. The Customs at GBLALA (Langley) are a bloody bottleneck too. It's always been RM and they are poor at delivering on time, and getting worse, since privatisation.

[Deleted]

Ditto above, usually 48hrs after shipping notice is the norm for a epkt parcel arriving at Heathrow, the delay comes once Langley recieve it and RM.

[buggritt]

Just as a matter of interest - how do you know when RM receive it from HMRC?