Aus Post crack down....

[northern_4x4]

SO I just dropped off todays parcel to my Local AP outlet. The woman wroking there told me that AP are cracking down on the usage of large letters. I used the PB2's. A lot. As a large portion of my items are small and have a low sell price, so I use a PB2 and pay $2 for a larger letter and just wash the postage into the sell price of the item.

I was just informed that they are cracking down on anything or than documents that goes in their PB2's, and other padded bags and you will be made to pay the extra for a regular parcel. A woman came in to our local PO last week apparently and posted a key in a PB2. A key. It was sent back to her telling her she cannot do this anymore and must pay for parcel post. So whats the point of a padded bag now if nothing but documents can only go in them?

This is going to really kill my sales, and I will be left with oodles of stock I cannot move. Its hard enough these days just running a store in eBay, now AP are making things worse.

Top stuff AP!

Rant over.

Anyone want to buy my stock, going cheap.

[mbselections00]

I didn't understand it either cats, hence my post 14

[davewil1964]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

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@englishrosegardens wrote:

I'd say the PO is just telling you that because of the way you try and avoid paying the proper price for parcels.  People like you make it harder for the rest of us who do the right thing.

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??? can you please clarifty what your comment is based on ???  seems quite aggressive to the OP to me, but open to trying to understand your comments and opinion 🙂

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on around 10percent of my PB's they are over the 2cm mark.

I suspect. Helps to read everything

[mbselections00]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@thecatspjs wrote:

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@englishrosegardens wrote:

I'd say the PO is just telling you that because of the way you try and avoid paying the proper price for parcels.  People like you make it harder for the rest of us who do the right thing.

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??? can you please clarifty what your comment is based on ???  seems quite aggressive to the OP to me, but open to trying to understand your comments and opinion 🙂

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on around 10percent of my PB's they are over the 2cm mark.

I suspect. Helps to read everything

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Sorry dave, with all respect,  I read it and thought you hadn't finished writing.  I took it to mean 10% of your items are over 2cm, therefore, obviously large letter doesn't apply.  I'm quite sure you wouldn't be trying to post 'parcels' as large letters, so I wasn't sure what your point was - I don't see how that addresses englishroses statement re the OP - as I said, I must be missing something

[thecatspjs]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@thecatspjs wrote:

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@englishrosegardens wrote:

I'd say the PO is just telling you that because of the way you try and avoid paying the proper price for parcels.  People like you make it harder for the rest of us who do the right thing.

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??? can you please clarifty what your comment is based on ???  seems quite aggressive to the OP to me, but open to trying to understand your comments and opinion 🙂

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on around 10percent of my PB's they are over the 2cm mark.

I suspect. Helps to read everything

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Thank you Davewil for trying to explain what another poster meant by their comments.

Still don't completely understand the comments in the context of the OP though.  Perhaps it helps to read and understand the issue under discussion in the OP.

[collect247]

The one that are too big they just put through anyway.

Means that OP isn't paying the correct postage for those.                                                                                                                                         

[justkidzbiz]

AP service can be shocking. And Chullora is a main problem. I lodged a parcel on 6/6, estimated delivery 9 or 10th June, it's now 21st and still not delivered!  And who's going to get blamed regardless of when it was posted........Me,

i remember when you used to post letters etc in the street posting boxes and the info on the box used to say: Metropolitan, next day, country areas 2-3 days etc......now all that has been removed, why, because they can longer deliver the service they used to provide!

[mbselections00]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@thecatspjs wrote:

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@englishrosegardens wrote:

I'd say the PO is just telling you that because of the way you try and avoid paying the proper price for parcels.  People like you make it harder for the rest of us who do the right thing.

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??? can you please clarifty what your comment is based on ???  seems quite aggressive to the OP to me, but open to trying to understand your comments and opinion 🙂

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on around 10percent of my PB's they are over the 2cm mark.

I suspect. Helps to read everything

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My apologies englishrose & dave (and shame on me) somehow I missed seeing post #8 - now I see dave, you were quoting, not making a statement - all makes sense now, lol, it just took a while.  I referred back to the opening post a couple of times, but somehow missed #8

Read that one cats, it will all make more sense then

[heihachi_73]

Sounds like an a$$hat employee rather than the company itself (and I'm not one to stick up for AP at all). If they refuse you service or try to charge you more than the cost of postage, tell 'em to get effed and move on to the next post office. The only thing not allowed in the mail as a large letter are items over 20mm or 3/4" thick (including the packaging/envelope), very large or heavy items (over 500g) or batteries, explosives and other items that like to spontaneously combust, and anything else that is restricted/illegal to send (but sadly not the Liberal/Labor/Greens "pick me!" propaganda which is currently filling everyone's letterboxes around here regardless of any large NO JUNK MAIL signs that may be around).

If I start sending games later this year (or later) and receiving the same games back in the next day or twenty-eight complete with a message from Australia Post saying they now refuse all large letters that don't contain flexible paper documents (because the 1940s just called and computers and television no longer exist), I will either remove my listings for good or list them as pickup-only if I haven't been defected to buh-gery from all the INR claims that would pop up if that did happen.

Meanwhile, I am looking at yet another item (Parcel Post this time, not Registered Post) which was supposed to be sent from VIC to NSW which is still "in transit" after seven days, scanned only once at my post office and never again. Can't wait to cop an INR defect over that $5 item, tracking, schmacking.

[go-tazz]

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@northern_4x4 wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder if its just my local PO making this up. As I usually take around 100 PB2's large letters weekly, along with all my other lodgements, on around 10percent of my PB's they are over the 2cm mark. I've been going to the same PO for three years, and I soften them up by bringing in coffees for them a few times. lol.
The one that are too big they just put through anyway.
I wonder if its just them telling me porkies as maybe they've had the sorting centre give them grief about my parcels.

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Maybe they've been reprimanded for letting your oversized letter rate parcels go through as letter rate when

they should be parcel rate.

If a post office says you can only put printed material in an envelope just grab a prepaid registered letter from

the shelf and show them what it says on the flap,

[thecatspjs]

I saw that post, however rather than sledge the OP, I think the fault lies with the post office in the OPs situation given they have created the issue by not doing their job.