I'm still expecting that sudden price hike for regular domestic parcels too, of course without anything more than a tiny message on the internet. 22mm thick, weighs 46 grams, sending from Melbourne 3004 to St. Kilda? That'll be $12.15!

As for international parcels, there has to be a genuine reason why they don't offer tracking except for a much higher price, when the labels, "tracking" numbers and all, are printed from the same computer system, and the items are scanned with the same devices, and look exactly the same; the only difference being they don't upload any details when scanned. Talk about an anti-feature designed purely to get people to pay more.