High postage cost

[takut0]

I just recieved my item today and I'm overal very pleased with the goods but not the postage/handling fee. I fully agreed to pay the postage cost when I hit 'buy' button BUT I didn't expect to get majorly ripped off either.

They charge $6 for standard postage.

Well item turns up to doay...The package costs $1.05 (even cheaper if bought in bulk) and the stamp $1.40 (two 70cents stamps).

Plus, the package it came in is padded bag so there wasn't charges for bubble wrap.

Sooo..the "handling fee" is $3.55? That seems to be a bit high, right?

[dylan11235813]

yes it does. woohoo new page..

[*crikey*mate*]

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@dylan11235813 wrote:

so all packages need to withstand a 20kg crowbar (a long metal bar for digging/grinding) from waist hight.

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it depends, is the crowbar longer than 105cm?

[trusteduserid]

A crowbar would exceed Aust post's size limit I should think.

Anyway, all packages must have proper packaging before they are allowed to be posted so the force of dropping a 20 kg package does not equate to a crowbar being dropped from the same height.

[*crikey*mate*]

see? size really does matter....

[trusteduserid]

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

see? size really does matter....

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Don't forget that it depends how the ''package'' is presented to Aust Post. LMFAO

[peridot55555]

waist high ??????

A couple of years ago, on a plane to NZ - luggage, mail bags, everything was thrown down to the ground from the cargo door.  

I saw this myself, so if the parcels are going interstate probably the same thing is happening around Aussie.  

At my local PO I Have seen the mail contractor loading the parcels into the truck - just throws them in 5 ton van, except for the parcels which had a fragile sticker on them including one I had sent that day.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@trusteduserid wrote:

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

see? size really does matter....

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Don't forget that it depends how the ''package'' is presented to Aust Post. LMFAO

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They're insatiable! Two packaging peaNuts just aren't enough for them!

[trusteduserid]

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

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@trusteduserid wrote:

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

see? size really does matter....

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Don't forget that it depends how the ''package'' is presented to Aust Post. LMFAO

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They're insatiable! Two packaging peaNuts just aren't enough for them!

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Maybe they think the ''peanuts'' are too small for the ''package'', or it could be vice-versa?

[*crikey*mate*]

and thus, we come full circle, eh?

size really does matter....

[chezzy]

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@dylan11235813 wrote:

How big is the parcel being dropped (that weighs 20kg)? Do they drop parcels?

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I double-box things when necessary and still feel nervous. I am not sure if there is any real parcel love going on.

Have seen a postie on motorbike ride over my soggy front lawn and then attempt to hurl a package onto my

patio. Package missed and landed in the wet dirt of the garden bed - just as I was walking out the front door.

Postie was "sprung bad". In future he tooted his horn and handed me packages if I was home. Win win =

I get a reasonably unscathed package and he doesn't have to get off his bike to retrieve muddy package.