Any tips on cutting down costs for posting small items such as stud earrings? Would like to offer

Hi, wanting to sell small jewellery items eg stud earrings and want to offer either free postage or minimal cost. I dont want to increase the "buy it now price" by costing  the postage price  into the asking price. Going by Australia Posts price guidlines it will cost a mnimum of approx $6.50, does anyone use envelopes or their own packaging of a particular envelope sized dimension and only pay for "envelope posatge" eg $1.20 for standard envelope up to 20mm  thick?