Overseas parcel rate INCREASES

[creativecharm]

Just letting you all know so you can adjust overseas postage rates on your listings before next sale comes through.

I have just been to the Post Office with thin envelope containing a charm 44 grams total. Last week it would have gone at letter rate of $3.25. If going as a Parcel would have been about $8.00.

This morning rates are up. This item is now costing $20.50 to send. You can no longer send anything at "letter" rate overseas if there is an object in it. However even the "parcel" rate has more then doubled in price.

I am sending this one at my expense. It was a $10 item, with $5 postage.

I wonder how many Australian businesses sending overseas will go out of business. It's hard enough competing with Chinese sellers who sell for $1.00 including postage, without this mammoth increase in price

[crowsman53]

Read this topic with a lot  of Interest  and a lot of thought. "Printed Matter" I sell a lot of Magazines some weighing 100 grams plus. As far as I am concerned These are "Printed Matter". Where would I stand for postage to UK?

Just Interested

Thank You

Paddy

[audio-spot]

The special service only applies to customers who apply for special services and who don't have a written agreement.

Normal customers abide by the normal terms and conditions.

The special services are mentioned on page 16 of the first item in the link provided above.

[digital*ghost]

From what I can gather, magazines do qualify as printed matter - they haven't excluded them, anyway, though they've specifically excluded books from being a "document", I would have thought if a book is flexible (soft cover) and meets all of the other letter limits, it would qualify, but AP will be AP I guess. 

[digital*ghost]

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@audio-spot wrote:
The special service only applies to customers who apply for special services and who don't have a written agreement.

Normal customers abide by the normal terms and conditions.

The special services are mentioned on page 16 of the first item in the link provided above.

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I must have been going around in mental circles for too long. I understand exactly what you're saying, yet I feel like I know nothing.  

Maybe I'm just having a dumb moment, but would that mean the current international letter guide applies in normal circumstances (for large letters, because they still differentiate between small and large letters, and even for domestic letters they only ever summarize the restrictions to make it look like it applies to both letter services), or can I expect sooner or later my PO to give me a "nope, not this time".

[ozmagz]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

What is "the special service"? Do they just mean international service are "special". because 1.2 onwards seems like just a more bureaucratic way to say "when you purchase services", there's no real "application" involved in just going in and sending something over the counter, unless "application" is being used as a legal term and customers are applying to buy a service and AP then chooses to accept (or reject) the application. o.O 

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Don't quote me on this, but i suspect 'special' service items, may be things like weapons ie. an antique knife, medical related items, plants/seeds etc..  Basically things you'd need special permission/arrangement to mail.

[creativecharm]

I just checked Australia Post Site

Lowest price to send anything to USA is $23.72.

[chezzy]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

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@chezzy wrote:

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@curraone wrote:

 3 Conditions of Service - International Economy

3.1 The International Economy service is available for:

3.1.1 articles weighing a maximum of 2 kg where delivery is by air; or

3.1.2 articles between 2 kg and 20 kg when delivery is by sea and overland.

3.2 Standard Letters and Large Letters sent using the International Economy service must:

3.2.1 only contain documents;

3.2.2 not exceed the dimensions, as set out in the Terms and Conditions for Standard Letters and Large Letters; and

3.2.3 not contain prohibited documents.

I think we're stuffed, frankly.

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Thanks Curraone, I posted before I saw this info you posted. Can you post the link to this?

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I just found this - it's in a PDF that you can find here: http://auspost.com.au/general-terms-conditions.html

Scroll down to the very end and select "Schedule 31 - International Delivery Services Terms and Conditions" - I don't quite

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My letters were processed as normal today, but all signs point to that not being the case much longer, so I've disabled international postage options on my low value items with letter postage quoted, until I get this all clear and work out what I need to do. 😕 

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How many people are going to know about some schedule 31 tucked away in the AP site. I had enough trouble finding info myself and am glad you pointed in the right direction. Thanks. I think people aren't going to know. I wonder if the information should be presented another way. I don't even expect postal employees to be on the same page. The guy who took my call the other day (philatelic but filling in) had no idea about the changes happening today......

[ozmagz]

That's for Airmail that is Tracked. ie. basically what Pack and Track once was. It's $15.85 for Economy Air (which was the old Standard Air).

[casbit33]

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Just letting you all know so you can adjust overseas postage rates on your listings before next sale comes through.

I have just been to the Post Office with thin envelope containing a charm 44 grams total. Last week it would have gone at letter rate of $3.25. If going as a Parcel would have been about $8.00.

This morning rates are up. This item is now costing $20.50 to send. You can no longer send anything at "letter" rate overseas if there is an object in it. However even the "parcel" rate has more then doubled in price.

I am sending this one at my expense. It was a $10 item, with $5 postage.

I wonder how many Australian businesses sending overseas will go out of business. It's hard enough competing with Chinese sellers who sell for $1.00 including postage, without this mammoth increase in price

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This is very bad. Just another reason why I post to Australia only.

[davidc4430]

i think we might all be selling within australia only from now on.

or will ebay suddenly invent its own international postal service? now what could they call it?