How to use Australia Post post for items more than 20mm thickness

[prime.gadgets]

I have seen many Australian sellers listed items which have thickness more than 20mm for prices around $5. How do they do this?

As I know, if the item thickness pass 20mm goes into parcel post which cost $8.95? How do they trick the system?

I also want to point out two buying experience I had.

1) Once I bought over 20mm thick Envelope pack via $5.35 Australia post large prepaid envelope. But for the item, I paid only $4.9 !! The seller seems to do a lot of sales, so cannot be just selling for loss trying to impress the buyers. The sale is not possible unless they print their own fake prepaid envelops...

2) Bought an item which weight around than 150g (over 125g limit) with $2 stamp. Thickness was also a little bit over 20mm. Does Australia Post allow this kind of deviations on $2 stamp post?

Kind advises from experienced members are highly appreciated as I'm still new to this business 

[south.coffee]

200-300 stamps a week ? I would be getting a franking machine to take advantage of letter post discounts.

[curraone]

So you could buy your stamps in bulk online from Aust Post

[oz-e-seller]

When I looked into this as I use around 400 stamps per week, the rental cost for these machine costs more than the savings on postage which is like 1c per item until you are doing around 1000/week.

[prime.gadgets]

From where that we can buy stamps for bulk prices? I tried to find, but couldn't.

Can you please tell me how to do this?

[prime.gadgets]

Can someone explain how these sellers ship these items for listed price. These items are way over 20mm and has to be sent on parcel post only.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wireless-Headphones-Bluetooth-Headset-Noise-Cancelling-Over-Ear-With-Mic...

[*tippy*toes*]

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@prime.gadgets wrote:

Can someone explain how these sellers ship these items for listed price. These items are way over 20mm and has to be sent on parcel post only.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Wireless-Headphones-Bluetooth-Headset-Noise-Cancelling-Over-Ear-With-Mic...

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Because the seller is Chinese, so the items would be being sent from China, regardless of what the listing says. The Chinese government subsidises their postage, so it costs them very little to nothing to post.

[curraone]

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@prime.gadgets wrote:

From where that we can buy stamps for bulk prices? I tried to find, but couldn't.

Can you please tell me how to do this?

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No sorry, I don't mean that they are discounted - I mean you can buy large quantities

[purplemon18]

That is my plan, but when I checked earlier this week, there were no $1.10 stamps even listed as coming soon and the 10c stamps were out of stock.

[purplemon18]

Ebay has a problem with sellers mis-repersenting their location. It is a apparently polotics thing to do with https://www.ebay.cn/ and https://www.ebay.com.au/

So not much can be done. Thankfully most regular https://www.ebay.com.au/ buyers are savvy enough to spot the difference so I would not worry to much about them. I would try to avoid competing with them though.

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@purplemon18 wrote:

Ebay has a problem with sellers mis-repersenting their location. It is a apparently polotics thing to do with https://www.ebay.cn/ and https://www.ebay.com.au/

So not much can be done. Thankfully most regular https://www.ebay.com.au/ buyers are savvy enough to spot the difference so I would not worry to much about them. I would try to avoid competing with them though.

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Sadly, I think PG is trying to compete with them, which is why he's taking a huge hit on most of his items. Most he'd be selling at a loss, which I don't understand. People can buy my items way cheaper overseas. A lot probably do. However, a lot also choose to buy from me, even though I charge way more than overseas sellers. Some buyers prefer to buy locally and prefer to know that it's much easier to return an item in the event there is an issue (I've only ever had one return, and it was change of mind, they simply didn't like it when they saw it).

No one should sell at a loss to compete with the Chinese. It defeats the purpose of selling here. I would rather something not sell than sell it at a loss. No one can compete with the Chinese when it comes to phone cases. Better of hoping for buyers who are happy to pay a bit more to buy locally.