Postage times....

[saarzi]

Anyone had any items delivered yet?

I sent several items on Monday (NOT priority) and Ive had emails from buyers to say some were already delivered today.

That includes from me (rural NSW) to rural VIC!

So much for two speed deliveries?  unless they are just getting used to it.

[saarzi]

I agree - people dont send letters they need delivered fast by regular mail. They send express, or use email. And who cares if a regular letter takes a day or two to be delivered.

The price increases might help them, but I think the two speed mail and priority labels were poorly thought out.

They might have worked 20 years ago.

[dylan11235813]

Do they have that much mail to justify 2 levels of service?

Maybe increase the price to $1.10 and not have it. There is also the fact that if I don't pay the $0.50, it "might" take longer!

Next it will be every second day deliveries. How high can the price go?

Austrlia Posts annual report is available on the website. I couldn't seem to find how much each executive was payed (or bonuses) but I think they got about $1 mill each on average for 20 exective directors.

Australia Post seems to spend a lot on capital.

[247newdeals]

I usually find a move made by a large company to be done by mistake.Personally I think having a $0.50 priority mail service is doomed to fail but I would be interested to know if Aus post would be able to incorporate the fee once it fails so allowing them to do a  second large postal increase within a year I would not be shocked to see the base fee at $1.50 within the next 12 months

[dylan11235813]

If they did that the price for a 500g letter would exceed the price of a 500g parcel.....without the priority BS. I think that is the aim though.

6 billion in sales with 200 mil profit (in 13-14 year) while paying 20 mil to execs and spending 400 mil to upgrade (like every year) seems excessive. What is all this money being spent on....surely not just a few scanners and the website.  I would rather see them buy every posty a new scooter, so I can watch them fall off of a nice scooter and then get chased by dogs while holding a big stick.

They not only seem to be wasting money but they then complain that other companies are entering the market and taking away market share, what a joke they are.

[dylan11235813]

I wanted to add as well that other countries that have the two levels of service have way more mail.

[saarzi]

Yeah, I live between the UK and Australia (most time spent in Australia), and the UK just isnt like Australia.

Auspost kept referring to the UK 2 speed way of doing things, but in the UK snail mail is still normal. People send tonnes of it, companies still use it for everything.

Its not like that here, compared to the UK, we're a lot more 'digital'. Banks, bills, most of them here offer email, and really push email. Whereas in the UK, it might be an option for some things, but its still not a regular thing, and most people dont use it.

In Australia Im lucky to get one letter a fortnight. In the UK, I receive letters almost every day.

I think post offices etc here will get sick of sorting the priority mail from the rest - I dont see how theres going to be enough to validate wasting that time, hence money, on it.

Interesting too that while Auspost is doing this, they are also offering their new digital mail box.. where you can have bill etc sent electronically (I dont know why youd have them sent their website (then they email you to tell you its there) instead of directly to your own email, seems like doubling up for nothing, but anyway).

[dylan11235813]

I don't get much mail. Just bills that I can download anyway, and the option of not receiving them in the mail. My postie also delivers packages....

[debonnairefashions]

Hi, I send some items by letters and I have noticed my sales has increased this week due to postage times. I decreased my postage rate for satchels and am getting more sales this week.

Would I use priority, no.  I sell clothing and had noticed sellers in the past posting as a letter. My buyers have purchased due to the fact the postage was cheap, fast and has tracking. 

Yes, I took advantage of what happened earlier in the week with the postage times and prices. It can be harder on items that are priced cheaper than mine, that is not clothing to reduce costs to get the buyer. 

Good of luck to all.

[dotm2004]

That makes me feel much better .... I had a message yesterday which read ..... "Did you really send it, cos it's not here yet - please check if you really sent it".   That was a letter post mailed on 20th from Hobart to NSW.  I explained that I don't send the postage notification until AFTER it has been posted and haven't heard back.

On the other hand, I posted a 5kg satchel to  Victoria on Friday18th ... checked the tracking on the following Wed ....BUT  it had already been delivered on the Monday 21st !!  

The same as your experience crow, I can't work out how they operate. 

[clarry100]

So far we are finding that the buyers we ask are receiving their large letter items in about the same times as we have been used to prior to now but without any priority stickers on them. In fact we have been using up our old 70-cent stamps stock last week too. But this next week we will be into the new $1 stamps. But no underpaid postage pings. So I assume there is a grace period.

I asked my local PO about these priority stickers last week and they basically just rolled their eyes back with a disgusted look and shook their heads, and they are a corporate office. They pretty much said don't bother with them.

So we are just going to keep using regular mail and see what happens. We have not even bought any priority stickers yet. So far no observable change in delivery times.