This issue really is NOT the price rise by AP, it is our inability to compete (in our own country Australia), against the very cheap postage which overseas sellers can send things to Australia.

For example from my own inventory. Parcel less than 500g to anywhere in Australia cheapest current price $6.95 with my own packaging etc. + Item cost $12.00

Same item sent from China or hong kong $12.60 FREE POST. How on earth do we compete with that. So I take it their cost of postage is around the 60c mark.

The International Postal agreement is agreed to by politicians. I suggest that we all get onto our local Federal members to start with if we want something to change.

And of course do sign the petition, the more noise, the more likely there is to be change.

One of the big effects of all this for AP is that there will be less and less parcels posted in comparison to incoming from overseas. So AP will eventually raise the prices for us Aussies again to try to cover the cost of transporting the incoming parcels all over this great country of ours. Hypothetically, there will be no small online sellers on ebay in Australia in years to come. IMHO