topic Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?) in Selling

Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

lupercal — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:48:08 GMT

The manager of my local PO gave me a heads up today that new postage prices are coming on September 1.

He didn't know any details, though we were discussing international letter vs parcel rates when he told me. Individual post offices apparently have no more detailed advance information than we do, but at least, if he's right, I know it's coming.

You might want to put aside time on Sep 1st to go through the fun process of updating all your postage quotes.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

jellybirddesigns — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:38:01 GMT

From memory, I think there used to be 2 increases per year?

Once for domestic items and the other for international, but maybe they just do one across the board now.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

digital*ghost — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:56:02 GMT

When the new rates are made public, they should be published here: https://auspost.com.au/about-us/news-media/important-updates

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

brerrabbit585 — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:50:56 GMT

You don't want to wait till September 1st to do it as that's a Saturday and a lot of Friday (and previous) sales won't be posted until the Monday.

It only takes a couple of minutes to update the postage on all your listings if you use business policies.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

lupercal — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:41:09 GMT

@brerrabbit585 wrote:
You don't want to wait till September 1st to do it as that's a Saturday and a lot of Friday (and previous) sales won't be posted until the Monday.

It only takes a couple of minutes to update the postage on all your listings if you use business policies.

Yes, but how can you update your listings before Sep 1, when you don't know what the new charges are going to be (or even what they'll be on) until then?

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

digital*ghost — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 11:50:23 GMT

The new rates are usually published 2-4 weeks in advance, so the link above will contain an announcement sooner or later.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

davewil1964 — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:22:29 GMT

AP generally increase their prices on a Monday.

Normally parcels are October (the 1st of which is a Monday), letters are January.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

brerrabbit585 — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 05:06:29 GMT

It's unusual for them not to give plenty of notice so you're probably right about October.

Letters haven't changed for a few years. Don't they have to get special permission to change the basic letter rate, which is what all the large letter prices are based on?

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

4476.iveco — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:59:58 GMT

I checked with our PO today & they showed me their info which said 1st October for increases on some items.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

lm-entertainment — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:02:50 GMT

the info for the price changes has been added to the AP website today effective october 1st.

https://auspost.com.au/business/shipping/check-postage-costs/pricing-updates

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

digital*ghost — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:56:13 GMT

I can't figure out if there's been an increase to stamp / large letter prices, I would have assumed not due to the pricing regulations on stamps, and nothing being put forward about it, but a lot of the letter services listed there are higher than current regular pricing (by about 40c each bracket, can't see any advantage in the mail systems in question if they're up to 20% more expensive than just buying stamps)

500g parcels up now to $8.30, so I guess $7.05 at max discount via My Post Business.

I see they're also introducing a 50-125g large letter weight bracket for international mail - that will be good for me because it's cheaper than what we have now (50g - 250g @ $9.00), but not so good for those sending 125-250g as that's now $12. Well past time for me to switch to DHL for international, anyway.

At long last international insurance has dropped (nearly halved), but domestic insurance is increasing to $2.00 per $100.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

davewil1964 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:25:21 GMT

It doesn't mention if standard 500g parcels are going up, nor prepaid large letters.

I suppose if they gave out that info, we could stock up.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

onekiwi0 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:30:17 GMT

did I read it wrong... I thought it said post satchels were 8:55... and a bigger jump $14... somthing for 3kg... and 5kg was a whole .5c more...

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

davewil1964 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:32:40 GMT

You read it right. But that is for prepaid satchels, not standard, own packaging parcels.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

digital*ghost — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:54:27 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
It doesn't mention if standard 500g parcels are going up,

In the assessed parcel PDF, the 500g rate is listed as $8.30 (currently $7.95).

Post-paid flat rate satchels (either eBay or My Post) isn't listed anywhere that I could see, though.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

davewil1964 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:30:32 GMT

Okay.

The postpaid ones didn't go up last year. From AP, at least; eBay added 15c per label. I expect they will go up proportionally. It would be nice to know.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

curraone — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:18:10 GMT

250g letter to USA to go to $12 instead of $9 - that's pretty hefty

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

lm-entertainment — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:12:24 GMT

yeah - domestic insurance is a rort. i did notice though that with the mypost discount .. even at 12.5% for postage, the extra cover cost is discounted by 33%. i guess that's one good thing?

to be honest, i don't send letters - so i didn't look through the pricing, because it all seemed long, boring and confusing

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

love_of_cars — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:47:32 GMT

Great, my #1 market is going to fizzle off even more if I am reading this right. 500g parcel to US and Canada $17, up from $15.85.

Add eBay's 10% fee of $1.70 and I will be charging those buyers. $18.70, but then eBay will be effectively charging me $1.87, so best to just make it a nice rounded $19. Getting close to the $20 mark. I will need to soon look at raising my item prices to help the raised postage price seem kess unreasonable. A vicious cycle.

Re: Australia Post rates to increase - Sep 1 (?)

brerrabbit585 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:50:56 GMT

Prepaid registered envelopes are going up (B4?) to $65.50 for a pack of 10. I asked my post office about it yesterday and he looked it up for me. I was paying $63.70 before (from memory) so an 18c price rise per envelope - still excellent value.

There's no change to the price of stamps so I doubt other prepaid envelopes will change, only the registered ones. I can't remember whether he told me that there'd be no change to the stamp price or whether I read it somewhere, but I was specifically looking for that information and took note of it when I saw it. It may have been on the notice on the door of the PO listing the items that would increase in price.