Australia Post shop mate

[harley_babes_hoard]

Has anyone used AP's ShopMate forwarding service for ebay purchases or to purchase from other overseas websites?

[lyndal1838]

Harley, it is very expensive.

It was discussed on the boards and I believe the general consensus was that there were other services that were reliable and a lot less expensive.  There were also a few nasty little catches in the T & C.

[harley_babes_hoard]

I compared it to some others and they were a bit more expensive but not by much. You don't know of any good ones do you?

[lyndal1838]

Sorry no, I don't.

I am in the happy position of having family in the USA and Canada and my OH's nephew is a senior pilot with UPS....we have no difficulty arranging delivery of anything from the US or Canada.

[harley_babes_hoard]

Lucky you !

[esayaf]

Yeah, lucky you. I just had a parcel come from Europe with UPS. €40 most expensive parcel I've ever had from Europe and it weighed less than 500 grammes

[lyndal1838]

That does not surprise me at all.

As long back as I can remember UPS has always had the reputation of being expensive....best part of 20 years now since I worked for a courier company that delivered lost parcels for them at out of hours rates.

And I know what they pay their pilots.