if you think about Australia Post as a whole they must be losing money due to the horrendous influx of overseas parcels, these have to be delivered free as any money is paid to overseas postal services. My local p.o.has become a horror house with queues out the door of people picking up parcels, loads of them from overseas. Like all things in life it's swings and roundabouts, we want cheap items from overseas, Aus. Post is stretched to the max handling and delivering them, they need extra money and so the cost is passed on to us.