I believe you can get mailers from Australia Post (or online sellers) that are specifically designed for posting CDs/DVDs in cases. They can be posted at large letter rates.

 

Further, deponent knoweth not.

I sell DVD's in slim cases and post them via padded envelopes.

 

The small padded envelope,(172 mm x 220 mm) with one DVD in it weighs in at under 125 grams and costs

 

$2 to post.

 

The same envelope with 2 DVD's in it is under 250 grams and it costs $3 to post.

 

Using the bigger padded envelope,(236mm x 350mm) with 4 DVD's in it costs $5

 

Buying the envelopes on here is way cheaper than buying them from the PO.

 

I have also sent "bulk" lots and use the ,B1,B2 and B4 boxes for those,(I get the boxes from the PO

 

and then use eBay postage as it is the cheapest option for me).

I sold a bunch of DVDs recently, all arrived with no problem.

 

Go to The Reject Shop and buy a 25 pack of C5 size envelopes for $3.

 

I had some old thin plastic transparent projector sheets from years ago and folded it around the DVD case, using a small bit of sticky tape to hold it around the case, then slipped it into the envelope and put 2 x $1 stamps on it.

 

I'm sure you can wrap it in a page of newspaper or 2 x A4 sheets of copy paper if you don't have the projector transparencies on hand.

I buy DVD mailers in bulk on eBay from eb-packaging; if I only need a few, I get the plastic* ones (151x229mm) from Officeworks (don't get the 151x229 paper ones or the Australia Post PB2 mailers, as they don't quite fit a DVD), which are just over $1 each if you buy in bulk (eBay is still cheaper by far, but Officeworks beats buying a PB3 mailer from the post office when sending only one or two items).

* If they give you stamps at the counter, put sticky-tape over them as they can fall off the plastic bubble mailers; the "parcel" labels do not have this problem. Learned that the hard way when I got a game sent back to me two weeks later sans stamps, and had to resend it. More than likely it went all the way from Melbourne to Sydney and to the buyer's local post office, only to come all the way back to me! Luckily, they received it eventually and were nice enough not to give me a defect.

For regular DVDs, Blu-Ray cases and games using the same type of cases (PS2/Xbox/GameCube and later), get the 160x230mm mailers. You can also fit two DVD cases in side by side in a large bubble mailer (even the AP ones) without having to pay Parcel Post (it's usually 5 stamps more often than not as it weighs over 250g, especially if the games have thick instruction manuals, but for DVDs or games without manuals it's usually only 3 stamps and weighs around 200g).

For regular (fat) PAL PS1 cases, it's Parcel Post no matter what; even if it fits in the letter gauge I don't trust AP with brittle plastic jewel cases which are pushing 20 years old (and no-one makes reproduction PAL jewel cases either, not even in China). Regular CD cases of course can go in AP's CD mailer, or PB2 bubble mailer for 2 stamps (or 3 depending on weight), but not many PS1 games were released in regular cases (mainly late edition Australian releases after 1999 or so e.g. Tekken 3 Platinum but not black label, and not Tekken 1 or 2).

Master System, Mega Drive, NES and N64 games (just the cartridges) will also just fit, but only if you don't have padding (e.g. use a tough bag). I have been stung Parcel Post on a Master System game at least once, turned out the width was 23mm thick and they refused to let it through for 2 stamps despite the whole thing weighing all of 80 grams.

Atari 2600 games and Super Nintendo cartridges are automatically Parcel Post as they are more than 2cm thick, as are VHS video tapes (audio cassettes - remember those? - fit but are of course very brittle, and I have no idea about records but I think they're too big anyway, notably the 33s, and you're just asking to have them snapped in half by the postal service if you send them in the mail as-is). Boxed cartridges are of course Parcel Post (the Sega games were basically miniature video cases anyway - Sonic & Knuckles actually used a standard VHS case).

Thanks to everyone for your replies and contributions. There are some great suggestions here already. Very much appreciated. I already have quite a large box of C5 padded envelopes, so I will start with those and stamps for the time being. As far as I can tell, if I send the DVD/Game in it's case and put $3 worth of stamps on it, it sounds like it will get to it's destination without too many issues.

Hi guys. Great advice! Always nice to see people researching postage prices first.

I think there is a 5min time limit on editing a post.

Postage prices usually change twice a year: March and September (I think).

Most post offices and LPOs will supply a booklet and they are free. I usually find these easier to navigate than the website.

Charging customers for postage can be a learning curve as there are so many options that work for different people. Another option on top of all the other advice could be to charge what it costs you for the listing, one dvd for whatever price with $3 postage, then offer discounted postage for multiple purchases, $1 extra postage per item, or something like that.