..." You do not need to cube Australia Post prepaid or flat rate satchels."

3rd paragraph, last sentence

ref.http://auspost.com.au/media/documents/Helpful-guide-to-cubing-Apr13.pdf (thanks to Kazbar

From what I have seen PJ has not said that satchels need to be cubed. She has mentioned parcels and not all parcels are boxes. You can wrap clothing up in plastic or paper and that can be a parcel.

I think the confusion is concerning pre-paid satchels and tough bags

Any item that is prepaid (or uses a click and send promo code) is not cubed. Its dimensions are set by the packaging and that has been calculated in to the price.

Anything else can be cubed, including odd shaped items in tough bags/padded bags/ wrapped in garbage bags/ burlap sacks/shrink wrapped etc

... and to answer the OP, I would cease all communication, blaock the buyers ID, wait 4 days then open a dispute, close it 4 days later and relist with calculated postage.

I'm with kazbar. Why give such a skanky buyer an easy ticket out of her problem.

Just a tip from a longtime seller of large, fragile items which require expensive postage - don't waste your time packaging anything first. The money comes first, then I package. You can either just put them in a box so you know the dimensions without packaging them, or hazard a good guess based on their size. I's rather be out a couple of dollars that to spend a long time packaging something only to have them not pay, quite often some of my items would take a couple of hours to correctly pack up.

Cat among the pigeons here, sorry.

Let the buyer cancel, re list and sell as pick up only.

If they get broken in transit you lose out.

I would not trust this buyer not to damage them once received and again you lose out.

Paypal will not require the buyer to send back and only a photo will be needed as proof.

Don't risk it.

Thanks kazbar for putting up the link for the cubing info. Admittedly, the last time I visited my sensible little post office was in April around the time of the price/service changes. At that time they were still saying that odd shaped would not be cubed (I was putting out a general feeler as I contemplated getting back into ebay selling - haven't bitten the bullet yet).

Am disappointed about the whole cubing thing actually - looks like a real money spinner for AP, customers less happy.

I wonder how much extra time AP employees are going to have to spend whipping out their tape measures and cubing so many items now - while the queque of frustrated time poor other customers grows and grows. Frustrating times ahead.

Cubing is not new. I remember when it came in, probably around 10 years ago.

NO, cubing is quite old. I am talking about the cubing of odd shaped packages, those without straight sides etc. That is all new and in my book very disappointing and time wasting.

Guys, the OP said up there ^ way back, the buyer paid.