Yeah, that'd hurt a bit I know a few sellers on eParcel that will only use it for the metro stuff and pre-paids for the rural ones as it's cheaper for them (or at least, it was when the volume discount for them was 10%), but you'd have to have the volume to sustain the discount for metro as well (I certainly wouldn't, not unless everything I sent went as parcels, anyway). I guess it was AP's way of trying to compete with couriers, as a lot of sellers would have been using local ones for same city deliveries at prices way under theirs when it was flat discounts Aus-wide, and only sending through AP for interstate / rural deliveries. 

We are on MyPost Band 4 highest discount tier and sending from Rural:

500g City/Metro = 7.25
500g Rural = 8.50
Small Prepaid satchel (bulk) = 8.74

Our own satchels = 0.02
Thermal label = 0.02
Bicycle to Post Office = FREE and FUN !

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@south.coffee wrote:
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Bicycle to Post Office = FREE and FUN !

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I've been doing this the last few weeks - it's a 16km round trip for me, but after several months of sitting around at home I most certainly need the exercise!

I take it that those prices do not include eBay's 10.9% and PP 2.6% plus bubble wrap ?

Not everybody pays 10.9%.

 

I pay 9.35% on most of my sales.

E-Parcel also has a seperate pricing added for same state deliveries so giving 4 different prices. 

 

But I shouldn't complain because when I started if you wanted to get a discount you had to send 20 parcels per week and 500 gram parcels did not count. 

Those prices are from MyPost and built into our BIN price. You get higher discounts in MyPost than eBay postage once you build up volume.

All our packaging is recycled from our suppliers deliveries, bubble wrap, tissue paper, plastic wrap. We even recycle courier bags by turning them inside out. Produce bags from supermarket work well too.

Our daily Post Office ride is 20km round trip via farms, rivers and cycle tracks. Rain, hail, shine.

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@south.coffee wrote:
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Bicycle to Post Office = FREE and FUN !

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I've been doing this the last few weeks - it's a 16km round trip for me, but after several months of sitting around at home I most certainly need the exercise!

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And I walk the 1km to my post office. If parcels are too heavy to carry by hand/over shoulder, I use a trolley. Handy for getting supplies at grocer near PO too.

My friends and neighbours know to channel all unwanted bubble wrap, tissue paper, padded bags and boxes in my direction. I save money and am really pleased to recycle, my donors are pleased to get rid of their 'rubbish' and feel good that they have been able to recycle too. My local PO guy is so impressed with my packaging recycling he now saves stuff for me to use too.

Same. I bought a large roll of bubblewrap last year and barely touch it - recycling packaging I receive and others donate is pretty much all I need. Helps that I'm a more efficient packer than most!