Australia Post price increase - period of grace?

[cathyjoyjoy]

Is anyone aware if there is a "period of grace" after 4 January, where the old letter rates will be accepted without the recipient being charged for underpaid postage?  In the past there has been an "unwritten period of grace", sometimes two weeks or a month.

This is the case where you drop a pre-stamped letter into a red post box.  Of course once you approached the post office counter, the latest postage would be charged.

Happy New Year and thank you for all the very helpful "inside advice".

[joethenuts]

i am only going by the poster here. 

[joethenuts]

thank you  theforcemedia  by clarifing what some posters dont uderstand  . 

[*tippy*toes*]

So one member who goes to one post office says one thing and multiple other members who go to different post offices say another thing and you stick like glue to the one member. Just because someone says what you want to hear, doesn't mean it is the truth.

I just got back from my local post office and asked about posting at the old rate if I put it in the red box. I mentioned the discussion on here about it and how one post office said it would be OK for the next 2 weeks. They said sure, go right ahead, but you or the recipient will get an under postage charge. As the red boxes in most areas get collected daily, sometimes more than once a day, they KNOW that the letters in there were posted after Monday.

Besides, just because one post office says it's OK, what happens when the letters leave that post office and go to the mail centre? That one post office has no control over what they do there. If that one post office says it's OK, the mail centre will have other ideas. See last paragraph.

If anyone wants to keep posting at the old rate, do it. Just don't come here whinging when you get a bill from AP.

[joethenuts]

you have to understand  a poster stated what a aust post staff said  , while others are going by what happened the last time, 

there is also posters stating you wont get a bill, who knows  ,    i will take the advice from a member who has asked.

[*tippy*toes*]

Obviously, once again, you skimmed over my post without reading it. What part of "I just asked at my post office" did you not understand? Was I talking in a foreign language you didn't understand? I WAS JUST THERE...............TODAY...........HALF AN HOUR AGO.

As for taking advice, of course you will always take advice from anyone but the regulars here. You only ever listen to what you want to hear. If it's not what you want to hear, you ignore it.

[joethenuts]

for a start you were answering what i said before you posted and mentioned about your post office   and what do you care who i believe   i also see this person is a regular seller on ebay   and even though you state you sell on ebay   you have only been  on these boaeds for a little while

so are you saying that all new posters here are telling porkies

[theforcemedia]

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

I just got back from my local post office and asked about posting at the old rate if I put it in the red box. I mentioned the discussion on here about it and how one post office said it would be OK for the next 2 weeks. They said sure, go right ahead, but you or the recipient will get an under postage charge. As the red boxes in most areas get collected daily, sometimes more than once a day, they KNOW that the letters in there were posted after Monday.

Besides, just because one post office says it's OK, what happens when the letters leave that post office and go to the mail centre? That one post office has no control over what they do there. If that one post office says it's OK, the mail centre will have other ideas. See last paragraph.

If anyone wants to keep posting at the old rate, do it. Just don't come here whinging when you get a bill from AP.

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Yeah, good points actually.

I'm just thinking about the poor old lady down the street who has absolutely no idea about the price increase. And surely there are a lot of people who don't know, so how will they know until they go into the PO to get new stamps?? The price increase is not displayed on the street box, at least not around here where I am.

With that in mind, the PO will have a whooole lot of underpostage charges to send out if they are going to be policing everything sent after 4/1.

But I use return address labels, so if I get any notices I won't come whinging on here (that'll do me no good) I'll be handing them over to Tammy at my PO, haha.

[joethenuts]

correct   the post office lady has a name lol

also i have left you a private message     joe

[maxandbon]

Regular Mail is now a slower service, your 6 day eta that ebay states on your auction. (that can include Weekends) is only giving 4 working max for your items to be received by your customer.

Australia Post has clearly said on average Regular Mail will now take a min 2 days longer to arrive.

I think most sellers using regular mail are going to be hit hard with MY ITEM HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED cases this year until ebay changes the delivery times to reflect the current 2016 Australia Post Regular Mail changes.

[pennyforum14]

Joe, think of it this way.  If  a customer came into your paint store and asked if they could have a particular can of paint delivered for free and one of you employees said, yeah sure, that will be okay, you wouldn't be real happy.  Now suppose you had a chain of paint stores, and that same customer went into each of your stores and demanded free delivery because an employee at your first store had said they could have free delivery on that one can of paint.  Would you be inclined to honour that?  What if the customer told all their friends that they could demand free delivery because an employee at that store had said they could deliver free?  Would you give them all free delivery?

It would be foolish to rely on something one employee at one store location says as being carte blanch permission to break the rules at every store location.  If you want to do so, feel free, but then by your own admission, you don't use AP  so you are really only encouraging others to do something that may cost them money in the end (there is a fine attached to each under paid postage invoice AP issues).  No skin off your nose I guess.