@dazzledayz wrote:
At 5.36 per (bulk rates), it almost makes sense to just use satchels via MyPost if you can get numbers up to a decent discount level.
You're not restricted to 20mm and insurance is via PayPal in the event of INR though I have no idea how that will work once eBay gets involved.
Unless the item is going to a "regional" location. I have found that since they brought in that rule (no discounts to regional areas, while offering a minutely higher discount to interstate metro areas, and a sizeably higher discount to same-state metro areas), that more than half of my parcels go to "regional" areas.
I'm at the highest tier discount, and pay $8.30 to regional locations, $6.97 to interstate metro, and $5.81 for local metro (regular postage, 500g prices) - add on the cost of satchels, printing labels, and packaging. (I stick with it because I still use it for sales where I have no access to discounted postage via eBay etc, and the odd international express parcel, so maintaing the discount is still worthwhile, but I will use a letter where I can).
The lower your postage costs, the lower the cut eBay gets for it, and the lower the margin you need to allow for it as well.
Plus, I also feel oddly satisfied that eBay pays for the postage on 5 orders per box. 
@dazzledayz wrote:
At 5.36 per (bulk rates), it almost makes sense to just use satchels via MyPost if you can get numbers up to a decent discount level.
You're not restricted to 20mm and insurance is via PayPal in the event of INR though I have no idea how that will work once eBay gets involved.
Unless the item is going to a "regional" location. I have found that since they brought in that rule (no discounts to regional areas, while offering a minutely higher discount to interstate metro areas, and a sizeably higher discount to same-state metro areas), that more than half of my parcels go to "regional" areas.
I'm at the highest tier discount, and pay $8.30 to regional locations, $6.97 to interstate metro, and $5.81 for local metro (regular postage, 500g prices) - add on the cost of satchels, printing labels, and packaging. (I stick with it because I still use it for sales where I have no access to discounted postage via eBay etc, and the odd international express parcel, so maintaing the discount is still worthwhile, but I will use a letter where I can).
The lower your postage costs, the lower the cut eBay gets for it, and the lower the margin you need to allow for it as well.
Plus, I also feel oddly satisfied that eBay pays for the postage on 5 orders per box.
I have to agree Digi; the change from Click & Send to MyPost Business tilted the playing field considerably.
With these differentials for "Rural" and "Other Major City" it makes AP more like a courier company, which is rather the idea I suppose.
Nowhere do they state what amounts to a major city either, so where do cities like Bathurst, Ballarat, Bendigo or Cairns and Caloundra fit into the scheme?
Also, what is the extent of each major city?
In Brisbane, the Q1 zone used for local postage runs north south but not very west.
It goes south to the border (Gold Coast) and north to Caboolture but omits Ispwich to the west which is closer than both.
Where I am placed, a suburb about 10km from me is considered "Rural" in the Q2 zone so I make a lot of use of the 50km interzone rate which involves manual assessment at my local PO.
So my question is, if you post to Redbank Qld (32km from CBD but a suburb of Ipswich), are you going to be charged "Rural" or "Other Major City" rates?
If you posted to Gold Coast (100km away but same city to me) would that be true for you or would it be "Rural" or "Other major"?
I've not been able to find a definitive postcode list from AP that sorts any of this out.
At least the courier companies usually publish one.
I just stopped using MyPost and went back to the eBay labels plus letters; I didn't need the headache.
