Which delivery carrier do you use to offer free postage?

[calvin78916]

Hi all, I always have this question in my mind, how can someone sell things as $0.99 and still covers the postage?

If I'm going to sell moible phone cases in Australia and offers the free postage, which carrier should I be using? Seems like the cheapest sachel postage is around $8(excluding signage on arrival). That's just too expensive for me to cover.

Any idea?

[calvin78916]

Thanks mate! You've been really helpful, and I like the decoration idea, hehehe...Yay, the $1.8 prepaid letter seems like a good solution. However, have you had a customer claimed that they never receive the item since there're no signature required? How do you deal with that?

Cheers.

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@crikey*mate wrote:

sheesh - I'm being helpful today

*proud lookin*

OP, if you go to your post office, you can get a Letter Gauge - they're free. They have all the sizes on them and holes to see if your letter fits through the various sizes etc.

Also looks good framed and hung on the wall in the pool room.

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[*crikey*mate*]

wooh - that's not a prepaid price!

I THINK you can buy prepid evnelopes of that size for $1.40 including postage, so even cheaper if you can fit your item into there and package it adequetly etc.

you can either register the letter.

OR

what a lot of us do is to put 20c or so in a jar for every sale. Then for the occasional claim of item not received, you pay out of that jar if that makes sense.

For a lot of us, it works out a lot cheaper to do it that way rather than pay an extra $3 or $4 for every letter for registered post.

But that is a decision that you need to make, I am not recommending that you do this.

You need to decide how much your item is worth and if you can afford to lose one every now and then.

I know nothing about the sale of phone cases or your proposed business plan, but maybe you could think about having some phone covers with free post, but the others at a price that allows you to charge for seller protection. (ie as a satchel or a registered letter)

so a few lines would be loss leaders, but may draw poeople into your store to see something else they may like.

[*crikey*mate*]

oh, and those letter guage things - great to whip out at parties if things get a bit dull too

with enough beer, it's amazing the things you can fit in those little slots.

good for kids on rainy days too, though better not give them the beer.