topic Re: Large letters, new prices? in Selling

Large letters, new prices?

saarzi — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:34:31 GMT

Does anyone know the new price for LARGE letters? Can find anything on the Auspost website (only the 70c - $1), or here, other than a lot of guessing and assuming.

Does anyone actually know the confirmed price?

Re: Large letters, new prices?

cridco — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:49:42 GMT

Re: Large letters, new prices?

imastawka — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:54:04 GMT

Not looking very hard

http://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/pricing-updates.html

Re: Large letters, new prices?

imastawka — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:52:26 GMT

Hey cridco - those prices are different.

Sure you got the right update?

Re: Large letters, new prices?

saarzi — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:54:34 GMT

ohh i did find that page, just didnt open the right bits Lol

ty!

Re: Large letters, new prices?

cridco — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:55:36 GMT

You are right. Thanks

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imastawka — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:56:09 GMT

Cridco's page is for metered mail, not regular mail

Re: Large letters, new prices?

joethenuts — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:01:53 GMT

so many options can you actually get a meal deal with fries,,and what is clean mail does it have to be washed first mmmm.

and sample post cool send your surpliers a cheque for $ 50 then they ring you what about the other $2000 then you say sorry i can only send that much because its a sample post lol

Re: Large letters, new prices?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:01:42 GMT

Don't worry, before very long Australia Post will once again come out with how much they are struggling etc etc etc etc and jack prices up AGAIN

Re: Large letters, new prices?

imastawka — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:07:41 GMT

Gotta 'splain ebberyfing -

Clean Mail

If you're sending more than 300 machine-addressed letters, with no need to barcode or sort, Clean Mail gives you a reduced postage rate.

As well as Priority delivery, Clean Mail offers the option of a lower cost Regular delivery service for non-time critical mail, taking up to an additional 2 business days for delivery.

Sample Post is a low cost way to mail people a sample of your product to try.

Re: Large letters, new prices?

heihachi_73 — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:48:50 GMT

But that will be Parcel Post, because of course it didn't meet their eleventy-billion-dollar profit margin.

The annoying thing about large letters is the arbitrary weight limits, ignoring the 2cm thickness limit for the time being. I send mostly games, which are in regular old DVD/Blu-Ray cases, and the weight is anything between 100g and 180g due to the varying sizes of each instruction manual (if the game has one). Do I charge someone two stamps and risk being charged an extra dollar at the counter if it's 129g when packed, or do I risk having my stars trashed for changing $1 too much if it's 123g instead? I'm not talking about brand new $100 games here - mine are $3 and up, where every dollar does count. Buyers don't care what bubble wrap, envelopes and other packaging material costs, they just look at the face value of the stamps or the postage sticker.

Re: Large letters, new prices?

clarry100 — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 19:16:06 GMT

We use "free" postage for our large letter items. Then just build into the total item price our average post and packaging costs. Works for us then we don't need to worry about what you describe. And if a buyer makes multiple purchases we can choose if/not we go with a C&S parcel.

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*tippy*toes* — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:03:07 GMT

I've always used "free" postage on large letter items. I'm now adding a postage cost of $1.40 instead of increasing the item price. There is enough already added to the item price to cover the rest of the postage to make it up to $2 (or $2.50). I don't know if it will make a difference. If it does, I'll remove the postage cost and up the item price a bit.

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pennyforum14 — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:20:33 GMT

I have a couple of orders that I will be sending priority amongst the orders ready for posting on Monday. I have asked the buyers to let me know when they arrive so that I can judge whether there is any real difference in the posting times. Not that I don't trust Auspost...but as my grandson says, "Just sayin' ".

Re: Large letters, new prices?

imastawka — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:40:45 GMT

Great idea, Penny

Hope they let you know........................then you can tell us

Re: Large letters, new prices?

joethenuts — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:02:09 GMT

let me get this right if i send you a lets say 2 large letters together, 1 priority and 1 normal.. the priority will get there roughly the same time as before, but the normal one will be slower . so 1 letter comes lets say monday the other lets say wednesday,would it have been faster if the postman dropped both letters to you on monday , instead of 2 different days , and how are aus post going to save any money this way.

Re: Large letters, new prices?

*tippy*toes* — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:43:02 GMT

Joe I'm guessing it would be similar to express post, in that it gets sorted and moved on before the regular post. Obviously it's not going to go at express speed, but I'm thinking in terms of sorting it would go something like, express first, then priority mail, then regular mail. It will be interesting to see how it pans out over the next few months.

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lyndal1838 — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:03:19 GMT

The only way you are ever going to get an accurate assessment of the system is to post 2 identical items to the same person....one regular, one priority...and see when they arrive.

I regularly get satchels from Adelaide and often find when the seller posts 2 at the same time one will arrive a day or two after the other.

Goodness knows what will happen when there is an excuse for some mail taling longer.

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elusiveeditions — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 06:26:47 GMT

It will be very interesting. My PO still don't know how they'll be sorting priority from regular or what the time differences will be in delivery.

For the moment, I'm upping my large letter price to include the increase but not the priority 50 cents and send will send regular. Will also send buyers a note reminding them about the change and asking them to take ebay's estimate with a grain of salt, since it's doubtful they'll change their (already wacky) estimated delivery times, or even include these changes in the options under 'standard postage".

We shall see.

Re: Large letters, new prices?

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