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AP price rises

davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 03:55:40 GMT

Domestic and International standard retail rate changes^

Over the last year we've worked hard to support customers with the pressures of their sometimes rapidly changing businesses. Rising costs over the period however mean that, effective 1 March 2021, we'll be raising our standard retail rates for domestic parcels and changing our standard retail rates for international parcels.

We'll be introducing a 2.5% price increase across our retail domestic parcel products; which includes Parcel Post, Express Post and Return Paid items.

I don't do International, so I havem't copied those

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curraone — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 03:57:27 GMT

A small snapshot

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onekiwi0 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:03:47 GMT

thanks for the heads up. Curraone looks like your small snapshot is of when not using red satchels.... ie 8.95 goes to 915 etc....

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digital*ghost — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:10:53 GMT

For those who do send internationally (and in particular, those using My Post) - be aware that while their email announcement touts increased savings to NZ (jumping to 35% for band 5) and 5% discounts for band 1, the discount is decreasing to all other zones for those on higher tier discounts.

Full list of changes here: https://auspost.com.au/service-updates/current-updates/pricing-updates

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curraone — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:11:36 GMT

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south.coffee — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:52:59 GMT

I love the way they disguised the price rises in the email we received:

'New MyPost Business International savings bands' - then in the third paragraph:

'What's changing: Changes to standard retail rates for domestic and international parcels'.

The most important and by far most impacted change to the vast majority of users. Love their marketing transparency, taking a leaf out of the 'Gubments' marketing handbook. Bury the bad news.

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davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:55:39 GMT

I almost didn't read it, as I don't do international.

Being AP, though, I thought it best to have a look.

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onekiwi0 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:55:46 GMT

just an observation..

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grevilleas4me — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:33:43 GMT

@onekiwi0 wrote:
just an observation..

But it is the same rate if you have a satchel or not

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davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:35:58 GMT

Prepaid (red) satchels are way more than the advertised MyPost Business rates, and will presumably go up at least 25c for Small.

I don't know why anybody would use them. The cheapest printer won't use enough ink to make it a saving.

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curraone — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:50:17 GMT

So the new price for a 500g prepaid satchel will be $9.40

And if you use Aust Post and flat rate satchels basic price for the satchel is 25c so $9.15 + 25c = $9.40

So it is the same for people who don't buy in huge quantities and are not eligible for the My Post business discounts.

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davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:57:35 GMT

@curraone wrote:
So the new price for a 500g prepaid satchel will be $9.40

And if you use Aust Post and flat rate satchels basic price for the satchel is 25c so $9.15 + 25c = $9.40

So it is the same for people who don't buy in huge quantities and are not eligible for the My Post business discounts.

I buy my satchels in 100s. 15c.

8 parcels per 8 weeks shouldn't be a stretch for anybody with several thousand feedback and a reasonable sell-through rate. At which point Band 1 gives 56c+ for non-rural.

Their choice. Everybody chooses their own business model. I was simply pointing out to the obfuscator that the price was only for MyPost, not prepaid satchels.

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letscleanupmycupboards — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:12:42 GMT

Satchels are already $9.15. It’s $8.95 for a 500g parcel.

Remember you can post 5kg in a small satchel so it’s extremely good value for small heavy stuff.

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davewil1964 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:24:41 GMT

@letscleanupmycupboards wrote:
Satchels are already $9.15. It’s $8.95 for a 500g parcel.

Remember you can post 5kg in a small satchel so it’s extremely good value for small heavy stuff.

Satchels are dependent on the service used.

$8.95 is the basic rate for Small. And $9.20 for prepaid.

This thread, I thought, was about MyPost. I pay 15c per small satchel, plus the applicable postage rate. Between $6.71 and $8.77, depending on where it's going.

I really don't care if people won't research cheaper postage methods. I just put the information up. What you do with it is up to you. But please don't accuse me of not knowing the published facts.

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4476.iveco — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:08:11 GMT

We too buy 10 packs of 10 small satchels @ $0.15 each.....i.e. $15 for 100.

We operate from a small regional town so we can never receive a discount for "same major city" however most of our items are posted to major cities so we pay $7.52 postage (band 3) + $0.15 (small satchel) = $7.67. To rural areas $8.68 + $0.15 = $8.83

New prices for us go to $7.69 + $0.15 = $7.84 & rural $8.88 + $0.15 = $9.03 Increase 2.2% for both.

Not much saving when sending to rural areas however it helps to keep us on band 3 & sometimes band 4 in busy periods.

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eol-products — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:15:58 GMT

They say due to rising costs but did their turnover not increase as well. If they are delivering more parcels of course costs will rise.

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heihachi_73 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:24:46 GMT

Haha, "rising costs", they made a killing during COVID-19.

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eol-products — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:37:56 GMT

Unlike years of past they could not blame increasing fuel costs.

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digital*ghost — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:38:50 GMT

Still better than DHL - I was recommending them to all and sundry for ages (for international), they were much cheaper than Aus Post, and super easy to deal with etc. Not any more.

They sent out new rates a couple of days ago - I have to do parcel pick-up with them, and the fee for that increased from $10 per pick-up to $30, and their pricing was a gut punch. I used to be able to send a (light, eg under 50g) tracked package for less than $10. Just for the sake of comparison, with these new increases, a 250g package to the US would cost $26.25 for me, not including any of their additional surcharges, compared to $15.75 with Aus Post and no surcharges (I'm currently on band 5 discounts).

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gec2002 — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:38:04 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
Domestic and International standard retail rate changes^

Over the last year we've worked hard to support customers with the pressures of their sometimes rapidly changing businesses. Rising costs over the period however mean that, effective 1 March 2021, we'll be raising our standard retail rates for domestic parcels and changing our standard retail rates for international parcels.

We'll be introducing a 2.5% price increase across our retail domestic parcel products; which includes Parcel Post, Express Post and Return Paid items.

I don't do International, so I havem't copied those

Probably just a coincidence but Cartier Watches are increasing in price by 2%.