Thread: Inreach Messages not sending due to spam blocking government?

So I've been using an Inreach since I headed to Canada last year. I use it to do drop off pick up trips with undetermined durations while I wasn't employed. This meant I could keep in touch and bail out early if need be and get collected at the nearest road. My last trip I had issues getting a message out. In the end I knew something wasn't right as I wasn't getting a response so I sent a total of 25 messages in an afternoon to 5 different people on 3 different networks. 2 of these messages got through. I finally got a chance to talk to garmin today to berate them for this as it's unacceptable. While I always have a maximum time plan and exit point my partner still worries if I don't check it as often I'm pioneering new routes (for me) and things take longer or don't work out so plans change.

They told me that it's due to the NZ Government blocking the messages as spam when the location part is turned on. This part helps me a lot as I often send points to confirm exact meeting points. They don't want to hear it but I pay a fair bit for the service and I think this is pretty much bullshit. I never had any issues sending the same location based messages from the USA or Canada to NZ Mobiles. Partner and I also almost had S and R called when we decided to extend a trip a day as she had a rostered day of on the Monday and I wasnt working. We sent a message to both of our families and our flat mates that were never received but showed sent to us presumably due to having our location attached. They panicked and luckily my family had the sense to calm everyone reminding them we had 2 plbs and were not working Monday and to wait until Tuesday before panicking.

Sooooo.....
Has anyone had similar issues?
I have this bigger trip coming up and potentially am looking for a heli pickup wherever we end up and need to be able to send out location. Yes I can send it to an email or inreach but that is besides the point.