I recieved a parcel before christmas and noticed the postage paid was at least half it would have cost me to post a similar size package. Can anyone explain to me how one gets to post items that much cheaper. I have asked the post office for the cheapest way to send and get told the same thing every time. I find it odd, frustrating and totally blaaaa to be charging people $7 something to send a smaller/thin book.
If it's less than 2cm thick (and 26cm by 36cm for other dimensions) you can post as a large letter, $1.40 if less than 125g, $2.10 for less than 250g, and $3.50 if less than 500g.
No tracking, unless you add a registered post sticker,
some chinese sellers must get a huge discount because I purchased something a couple of months ago and the total cost would be the same as the postage for me. I think they might be forwarding mail shipped from hongkong or something, it had an Australian return address but the package had no Australia Post stickers on it that I could see.
