Re price increases with Aus Post
As explained to me while having a problem with Aus Post is how parcels are funded.
My understanding is that revenue from the parcel business is retained by the country of payment.
The receiving country has to pay the cost of delivery after it lands in the destination country. tHEY WILL supposedly gain the benefit of retaining money from export items. With a level playing field it would balance out.
but have a think about how many items you have posted to China lately !!!!!!!!
As a result it means that Australia Post has to increase its services considerably to handle the huge amount of increase in incoming items.
The only source for this is in domestic postage hence the regular huge increases for local customers.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT THE AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS ARE SUBSIDISING THE CHEAP IMPORTS CURRENTLY FLOODING INTO THE COUNTRY.
This also explains the difference between prices for carriers like DHL, TNT etc and Postal services from China.
I recently looked at a purchase from China and costs were byChina post $10.00, DHL 100 TNT 106.
for China Post it was probably the cost to get it on the plane and Aus Post would cop the rest.
