The otherday I had made a box to fit into a satchel but was made it slightly too big. My solution was to cut the satchel down the side wrap it around the box and just tape it up. Many times I have had boxes too long for the satchel so same thing just let it stick out the end and cover with tape. 

I think I'll just stick to putting a label on the box. Either printing them myself or paying over the counter whichever works out cheaper until such time (if it ever eventuates) that they correct the prices so i can print all of them. I am not selling enough to bother with anything else.

I'm quite happy still paying for cheap rates for under 500g satchels. Saving a fortune on postage. I post fragile items and have never had an issue putting a box inside a satchel. Better than paying way more for sending as a parcel. Each to their own though.

As for paying via AP. It takes about 5 minutes to set up and is no different to printing an eBay label. Only difference is, you print it from the AP site rather than the eBay site. Sometimes for over 500g parcels, it's cheaper to print from AP rather than eBay. Again, each to their own.

ebay has updated their postage label service to the new Auspost Prices for those interested. 

Bye Bye local area cheap postage for heavy items.

I printed two small satchels just now, the same size options for both one to NSW and one to VIC. One says max weight 5kg and the other says max weight 500g. Probably rollout glitches.

5 parcels per week to get the base discount.

eBay have added some odd code to Address Line 1 field of their labels.  Something to do with Australia Post.  Like this:

ebay:enzbzwk

Now that eBay have removed discounts we moved back to MyPost.  But when you import orders into MyPost the annoying code goes too and MyPost complains with an error message due to the code:

'This order has incorrect or incomplete information. Please review and fix the order and then save'.

You then need to cut and paste the correct address from line 2 into line 1 to fix the error <GROAN>

Spent another 30 minutes with 'customer service' explaining that one and told them I moved to MyPost as you at least get some discounts there...

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@south.coffee wrote:

eBay have added some odd code to Address Line 1 field of their labels.  Something to do with Australia Post.  Like this:

 

ebay:enzbzwk

 

Now that eBay have removed discounts we moved back to MyPost.  But when you import orders into MyPost the annoying code goes too and MyPost complains with an error message due to the code:

 

'This order has incorrect or incomplete information. Please review and fix the order and then save'.

 

You then need to cut and paste the correct address from line 2 into line 1 to fix the error <GROAN>

 

Spent another 30 minutes with 'customer service' explaining that one and told them I moved to MyPost as you at least get some discounts there...

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If you click turn on auto complete, it will pop up with the code + address then click that and it deletes the code part out and just puts the address. Saves some copy pasting.