Shipping to New Zealand

[retrogeekaustralia]

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with shipping costs to New Zealand?

I currently only sell within Australia but have had a customer ask if i could ship an item to New Zealand, stating that is usually about $7

The item i would be shipping i usually just post out as a large letter within Australia for $1.2, and i was just wondering if i could do the same to New Zealand? I had a look at the Australia Post postage calculator and it states $4.5 for a letter with the weight of the item that i would be shipping, but this doesn't give me an option to choose if it is between 5mm-20mm so im not sure it i have to post it as a parcel or not.

If i can post it as a large letter can i just put enough stamps to cover the $4.5 and pop it in a post box or do i have to lodge it at the post office?

[fred_fred_2004]

When you send mail out of Australia it is the other country mail service that delivers the mail, not AP, and domestic tax is not paid on exports, they are exempt.

But it is interesting that it is possible to use domestic stamps for international mail.  Recently I was sending letter to my little granddaughter and I affixed a pretty domestic stamp with unicorn on it and expected to pay what ever extra it needed.  Not only that the PO staff would not let me do that, they scraped my unicorn stamp off.  Told me it is not allowed to be there even if I paid the whole postage.  😞

You are proberbly right but I still think its silly

the other day at the PO the printer was not working so the girl just stuck $2.35 of ordinary stamps on the envelope and didn't say anything about needing international stamps

and the GST is just silly, am I sending mony to the UK postal system to get the mail delivered or is it staying in the country?

taxes make no sense 🙂

[patchoo78]

The problem is, if something that isn't a document i.e paper; then I wouldn't be sending it as a letter.. Those envelopes are designed for paper only as they go through the sorting machine at top speed and if the letter isn't flat then the envelope is likely to get ripped..

I once cheaped out and tried to send an SD card as a regular letter. These are quite thin so I thought it would make it ok. I spoke to the family member I sent it to and all she received at the other end was a ripped envelope. It is likely that it was ripped whilst being sorted..

Unless something is paper, then it shouldn't be sent as a letter.. Illegal or not it's not worth running the risk that the envelope rips and the buyer then has to open a dispute for INR in which case the seller probably won't believe them.

[fred_fred_2004]

Yes you are right, but all my large letters go in thin boxes or padded envelopes and are perfectly safe

[patchoo78]

Great, but I was talking about when people send things that aren't paper/thin cardboard in envelopes as a letter to try and save on postage; not large letters which are essentially small parcels. They don't go through the letter sorter.. 

[49linda2012]

Letters yeah! all good I am a kiwi and I find the postage here extreame but in saying that you get more money than the kiwis  so it is what it is!! and enjoy ebay!