So, one can assume that this includes 'merchandise' letters, such as calendars, tea towels etc?

and yay!! If this is so...they must have people hammering them all day...crumbs. It would put a lot of sellers out of business otherwise...jilly...thanks digi..:)

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had a look at the AP face book and the customers post is there from Christophe Barriere-Vaju Dreamracer - but nothing from AP to confirm.... sadly I know my local PO would still say that is no proof... need a link or something

I just went to the Post Office and checked on how much it would cost to send a 20mm large letter to USA,

with an object in it, and was quoted $2-75 after checking on the computer.

Seems as though all is back to the way it was last week.

It's definitely confirmed and back to how it was. I went to my PO today and we discussed it. They knew it was revoked. All postoffices should and would have been notified....jilly

I think what you have to bear in mind at the moment is that OzPost employees were hit with this out of nowhere, like us: the woman at the counter when I tried to send an airmail parcel to New Zealand today, had only come back from break today, and had no idea about the new regulations. Nobody else in the PO seemed to have the same story. So at the moment you're going to find some employees possibly putting things through under old regulations, not realising they've changed (mostly I'm talking about 'large letters', assuming those rules HAVE even changed.) Ever since I can remember different employees have had differtent understandings and therefore personal rules about whether an object can go as as a 'large letter' anyway.

Now they just need to find a way to allow a piece of paper rolled up in a tube to go cheaper than as a parcel.  That's my dream.