Large letters, new prices?

[saarzi]

Does anyone know the new price for LARGE letters?   Can find anything on the Auspost website (only the 70c - $1), or here, other than a lot of guessing and assuming.

Does anyone actually know the confirmed price?

[heihachi_73]

But that will be Parcel Post, because of course it didn't meet their eleventy-billion-dollar profit margin.

The annoying thing about large letters is the arbitrary weight limits, ignoring the 2cm thickness limit for the time being. I send mostly games, which are in regular old DVD/Blu-Ray cases, and the weight is anything between 100g and 180g due to the varying sizes of each instruction manual (if the game has one). Do I charge someone two stamps and risk being charged an extra dollar at the counter if it's 129g when packed, or do I risk having my stars trashed for changing $1 too much if it's 123g instead? I'm not talking about brand new $100 games here - mine are $3 and up, where every dollar does count. Buyers don't care what bubble wrap, envelopes and other packaging material costs, they just look at the face value of the stamps or the postage sticker.

[clarry100]

We use "free" postage for our large letter items. Then just build into the total item price our average post and packaging costs. Works for us then we don't need to worry about what you describe. And if a buyer makes multiple purchases we can choose if/not we go with a C&S parcel.

[*tippy*toes*]

I've always used "free" postage on large letter items. I'm now adding a postage cost of $1.40 instead of increasing the item price. There is enough already added to the item price to cover the rest of the postage to make it up to $2 (or $2.50). I don't know if it will make a difference. If it does, I'll remove the postage cost and up the item price a bit.

[pennyforum14]

I have a couple of orders that I will be sending priority amongst the orders ready for posting on Monday.  I have asked the buyers to let me know when they arrive so that I can judge whether there is any real difference in the posting times.  Not that I don't trust Auspost...but as my grandson says, "Just sayin' ".

[imastawka]

Great idea, Penny

Hope they let you know........................then you can tell us    

[joethenuts]

let me get this right if i send you a lets say 2  large letters together, 1  priority  and 1 normal..  the priority will get there roughly the same time as before,  but the normal one will be slower  . so 1 letter comes lets say monday the other lets say wednesday,would it have been faster if the postman dropped both letters to you on monday , instead of 2 different days , and how are aus post going to save any money this way.

[*tippy*toes*]

Joe I'm guessing it would be similar to express post, in that it gets sorted and moved on before the regular post. Obviously it's not going to go at express speed, but I'm thinking in terms of sorting it would go something like, express first, then priority mail, then regular mail. It will be interesting to see how it pans out over the next few months.

[lyndal1838]

The only way you are ever going to get an accurate assessment of the system is to post 2 identical items to the same person....one regular, one priority...and see when they arrive.

I regularly get satchels from Adelaide and often find when the seller posts 2 at the same time one will arrive a day or two after the other.

Goodness knows what will happen when there is an excuse for some mail taling longer.

[elusiveeditions]

It will be very interesting. My PO still don't know how they'll be sorting priority from regular or what the time differences will be in delivery.

For the moment, I'm upping my large letter price to include the increase but not the priority 50 cents and send will send regular. Will also send buyers a note reminding them about the change and asking them to take ebay's estimate with a grain of salt, since it's doubtful they'll change their (already wacky) estimated delivery times, or even include these changes in the options under 'standard postage".

We shall see.

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