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@mountainherbs-123 wrote:

First of all Australia Post should help online sellers with lowered fees. Second I don't understand why everything is weight based. Sometimes I send out things in bigger boxes than necessary because it doesn't make a difference in price, however there is only so much VOLUME you get in a truck. Third I don't undedrstand why Australia post does so many postage zones. Every merchant uses mixed calculation.

If Australia Post would deduct the overly high payments from our postage fees, how much would that be?

Online sellers are the ONLY thing which keeps Austlraia Post up. If all the sellers are gone they go too.

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1.  "help online sellers with lowered fees".  I'm at a loss to understand why Australian taxpayers should subsidise online sellers.  If Aust Post makes a loss it's the taxpayers who'll be funding it.  If an online seller's business isn't profitable they can't expect the taxpayers to subsidise them.

2.  "everything is weight based".  No, it's not!  Once your parcels go over 1kg they're charged by volume.  Even lighter parcels can be charged by volume if the PO decides they're too big in relation to their weight.  It's all in the charges terms if you care to read them.

3.  "I don't understand why AP does so many postage zones".  Are you say it should cost the same to post a parcel from Melb to Darwin as it costs to post a parcel from Melb to Sydney.  Fact:  it costs more to get it to Darwin so they're entitled to charge it.  Do you think airfares should be the same for long haul flights as they are for short ones?  Letters are the same to anywhere in Australia but we should be grateful for that and not expect it for everything.

4.  "online sellers are the only thing which keep AP going.  If all the sellers are gone, AP go too."  The opposite is also true - if AP weren't here, most sellers wouldn't be either.  AP has the right to run at a profit same as every other business.  Just because the govt runs it doesn't mean it's obliged to run at a loss so that you can make a profit.  Would you be willing to run your business at a loss just so that others could have things cheap?

Some things just are what they are and we have to learn to live with it and/or work around it.  You expect the taxpayers to subsidise your business but why should they prop up your business if it's not viable?