AUSTRALIA PPOST SMALL PARCEL RIP-OFF

[stirling-tools]

I have a store on eBay and sell a lot of small items.  Since Australia Post dumped its 250g small parcel option, the cheapest small parcel option is a 500g satchel at $8.25.  This makes it bery hard to sell low cost items that are too bulky to fit into an envvelope. I have checked up on the US and UK postage options for small parcels. In the US, you can send a small parcel under 85g for AU$2.17 and under this system, you can go up in one ounce invrements to a maximum of 370g for $3.95.  

In The UK, you can send a parcel up to 1kg for on.y $4.41.  We are being ripped off. 60c is quite reqwonqble to post a letter, but why should the smallest parcel cost us $8.25?

I have written a protest letter to Australai Post, Nick Xenophon and other politicians.  I urge you to as well. eBay sellers and buyers are being reipped off to the tune of millions of dollars per year.

[bigbrickshop]

http://leader.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/australia-post-8216black-hole8217-blamed-for-wollert8217s-m...

http://www.aurora.asn.au/2013/08/mail-gets-through-at-last/

[the_billycan]

A year old rip-off is still a rip-off. Why should there be a time limit on complaining about it? Though admittedly this isn't the place to be doing it.

[peridot55555]

Thanks sportandplay, I sent the links to my buyer, she had no idea that was going on.

I went to my local PO this morn, they were in a bit of a huff (as they were extremely busy when my buyer & then Aus Post rang them), but we got it cleared up - it has been re-lodged under its original tracking number with a re-printed address label taped onto the satchel. 

I had taken a reprint of the buyer's address with me, with the following written on the same sheet of paper:  Please HOLD at (buyer's town) post office.  Ring for pick-up (buyer's mobile number).

The postal manager thought the phone number was a good idea to put on all tracked parcels (in case the parcel is not picked-up), so if possible I will be doing that in future.

I saw the parcel & it had been battered around (had black marks all over it) - glad I'd wrapped up the item inside a box in the satchel.

[waywan5]

This a new option now. Try cloud sourcing courier, which could end up a lot cheaper and faster.

http://ppost.im

[rjm6572]

this post  is 12 months old might be best to post another thread

[appletreeaaa]

Postage in Australia should be less that USA to USA postage because most of the postage in Australia is sent between the two major capital cites .

When sorting mail in the USA , they would need a huge amount of more different location mail bags and also many more delivery vans

A parcel around 1 kilo cost over $50 to send from Australia to London , why should Australia Post be losing millions of dollars delivering parcels that weigh around 1 kilo  from the U.K where the sender can sent in bulk from London to Australia for less than $5 ?

Australian postage users are helping to pay the cost  of cheap overseas postage and Australian businesses can't compete on the cheap overseas postage .

How is it possible that an overseas bookseller can sell a 3 kilo book with postage to Australia for $7 when the postage by itself cost around $13 for a 3 kilo book from Sydney to Melbourne ?

Australia Posts high postage rates is putting many Australian businesses out of businesses because they can't compete with the cheap overseas postage that is flooding Australia .

[ajarnjenny]

Yeah, but our postmen and post office workers are paid a living wage with good benefits. We pay for that and I am happy to do it.

Probably UK workers in the same field are paid well, but US workers would definitely not be.

[davewil1964]

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@appletreeaaa wrote:

Postage in Australia should be less that USA to USA postage because most of the postage in Australia is sent between the two major capital cites .

When sorting mail in the USA , they would need a huge amount of more different location mail bags and also many more delivery vans

A parcel around 1 kilo cost over $50 to send from Australia to London , why should Australia Post be losing millions of dollars delivering parcels that weigh around 1 kilo  from the U.K where the sender can sent in bulk from London to Australia for less than $5 ?

Australian postage users are helping to pay the cost  of cheap overseas postage and Australian businesses can't compete on the cheap overseas postage .

How is it possible that an overseas bookseller can sell a 3 kilo book with postage to Australia for $7 when the postage by itself cost around $13 for a 3 kilo book from Sydney to Melbourne ?

Australia Posts high postage rates is putting many Australian businesses out of businesses because they can't compete with the cheap overseas postage that is flooding Australia .

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Define the two. I live in the country's Capital. Is that one of your two? If not, why not? Are you aware you are replying to a post I made in the distant past? If not, why not?

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@appletreeaaa wrote:

Postage in Australia should be less that USA to USA postage because most of the postage in Australia is sent between the two major capital cites .

When sorting mail in the USA , they would need a huge amount of more different location mail bags and also many more delivery vans

A parcel around 1 kilo cost over $50 to send from Australia to London , why should Australia Post be losing millions of dollars delivering parcels that weigh around 1 kilo  from the U.K where the sender can sent in bulk from London to Australia for less than $5 ?

Australian postage users are helping to pay the cost  of cheap overseas postage and Australian businesses can't compete on the cheap overseas postage .

How is it possible that an overseas bookseller can sell a 3 kilo book with postage to Australia for $7 when the postage by itself cost around $13 for a 3 kilo book from Sydney to Melbourne ?

Australia Posts high postage rates is putting many Australian businesses out of businesses because they can't compete with the cheap overseas postage that is flooding Australia .

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Define the two. I live in the country's Capital. Is that one of your two? If not, why not? Are you aware you are replying to a post I made in the distant past? If not, why not?

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I actually though there were 7 capital cities and the nations capital city. Then again, I flunked geography at school, so maybe I was mistaken. I'd like to know what these 2 capital cities are too because looking at our local mail centre, there is a heck of a lot of mail coming in and out of regional NSW as well.

[grevilleas4me]

well, to be technical, there are 8 capital cities in Australia, one for each State or Territory;   and one nation capital for Australia.

http://australia.gov.au/directories/state-territory-and-local-government-directories/capital-cities