topic Re: Australia Post Price Increase in Selling

Australia Post Price Increase

goodthingsforsalerobert — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:52:12 GMT

Just seen a flyer at my local PO announcing new price increases from Oct 3 2016

Just what we need higher prices and less service

Parcels local

international letters

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

lyndal1838 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:13:05 GMT

Nothing surprising there.....increases happen twice a year.

The only questions each time are what will increase and by how much?

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

collect247 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:41:53 GMT

Parcel deliveries are now going to be delivered in the evening so there's an increase there.

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

onekiwi0 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:07:58 GMT

website doesn't help, will try their facebook page for info...

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

onekiwi0 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:20:06 GMT

typical I got this reply, fat lot of use announcing on the day it takes effect!!!!

We'll be announcing October pricing changes from Monday next week.

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

transport-posters — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:44:41 GMT

Thank you for the warning!

They didn't increase the local parcel prices in May so I was expecting something like this.

I got an email from eBay promoting selling into New Zealand and getting cheaper parcel rates through the company ADSone. They come in several dollars under AP and include tracking, so I have contacted them for a price sheet for other countries to see if they can better what AP is offering. Might be good for domestic deliveries but we'll see. My #1 market is the US right now.

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

queenslander — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:45:44 GMT

No parcel rates to hand yet but overseas letters as follows

New Rates to 500g for letters below for Overseas Below.

Australia to New Zealand Up to 50g AU $1.95, Asia/Pacific up to 50g AU $2.10, Rest Of World up to 50g AU - $2.95

Australia to New Zealand 50g to 250g AU $5.35, Asia /Pacific 50g up to 250g AU $5.75, Rest Of World 50g to 250g - AU $8.00

Australia to New Zealand Up to 250g to 500g AU $10.75 Asia/Pacific 250g up to 500g AU$ 13.00, 250g to 500g Rest Of World AU - $18.00.

Australian Parcel rates not available at present but Small up to 500g will increase by an average 2%, Parcels 500g to 22kg will average 2.7% more.

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

onekiwi0 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:46:11 GMT

doh I'm a month ahead of myself...

they said info will be on their website from this monday. (doesn't take effect until 3 oct)

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

digital*ghost — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 04:57:54 GMT

I was expecting an increase to international letter prices. They couldn't get everyone to use parcels earlier in the year, and it's been over a year since they went up.

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

heihachi_73 — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:00:36 GMT

Only a 2% increase? Doesn't sound right for Parcel Post (domestic), as that would be less than the previous increase (basic parcel rate went from $7.20 to $7.45, 25c). To be honest, I was actually expecting all doom and gloom and ten dollar parcels when I saw this topic, but if it's only going to go by the CPI rate or whatever, that's fine with me (of course, a cheaper 0-250g parcel rate of around $5 would be fine with me too, but I don't run the company).

Re: Australia Post Price Increase

digital*ghost — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:13:11 GMT

"Average" is a bit of a red herring when it's being used by Australia Post...

They said the same thing when they overhauled the international parcel prices earlier in the year, and it was technically true because they decreased the pricing of some international express services, but the actual increase to all other parcel services was 10%-15%.

I don't expect we'll see any decreases for domestic prices, though, more like less popular services may only increase 1%, while more popular ones will increase 5% or something.