I recently sent a letter which had to go two suburbs away in Melbourne and it took a week.  Couldn't believe it.

Someone told me also that their express next day satchels from their work office often take about 3 days to another suburb in Melbourne.

eBay needs to let all this silly postage marketing stuff go and just leave it up to us sellers and the actual postal/courier companies to do our thing.  Too many expectations are placed on sellers and once eBay stops involving sellers in this stuff the buyers will stop expecting so much from us and learn to live with the unpredictable, erratic shipping provided by the postal services.