I bought a present for someone in the US (got a bargain) and now that I am getting ready to send it, I see that it will cost at least $30 even though it's less than a kilo. That is not even an expedited or signature service.
WTF!
No wonder Oz is so uncompetitive and people are ordering from overseas.
Does anyone know any other international delivery service that will be cheaper?
I am thinking I'll just buy a gift from some US online shop and have it delivered. It won't cost much more.
Actually $106.
With my business I try and cover both options by having a China supplier that I can ship to Australia for $2 and a one or two week wait or ship a product I hold directly using click and send for $6.50… Guess which option is usually picked.. AUS post are making it near impossible to have a small business based in AUS shipping low cost items.
Today I had to post 2 books in separate packages for ebay.
Both packages were posted in the same state I live in.
It cost me $23.70 with registration to send them! Yet just today I got a package from America which was about 1Kg and that cost only $13.70 and the package was huge.
And the idiots like Solomon Lew believe its the GST that is the issue
http://www.smh.com.au/business/lew-hits-out-at-online-gst-ra…
Not an idiot. Just a sly *@&$#^%!
Click and Send. Bx4 box from AusPost (the big one) ~$16 anywhere in Australia with tracking. Whatever you can fit in the box up to 15KG or something ridiculous. It's also Australia Post…
Agreed - Click and Send is definitely the way to go for sending parcels within Australia.
It's also worth asking, do we want the kind of jobs that coexist with cheap postage like you get in China, HK, or Singapore? Are bling resellers and packers jobs to aspire to? They are hardly high wage jobs are they? And anyway there is no way we can have such jobs without the hinterland of Chinese factories.
A better comparison would be postage cost as a percentage of the average wage.
If any of you guys have issues with parcel delivery, do ring up and report it, it does get looked into especially if you have evidence, here at the DC to which we service at home has terminated 8 contracts this year purely to insufficient delivery standard.
End of the day if they are delivering 200-300 articles a day, you can't expect them to hang around all day waiting for you to answer the door. The minimum standard is 1 minute.
As for costs, for walk ins that's the cost. Post focuses on contracts and larger volumes. Some of our contracts pay <6 bucks for a 20kg carton of wine anywhere in Aus.
Also as mentioned the domestic rate is propping up to cover the cost of the international imports, can't have your cake and eat it either.
Anyway i have no idea how it works but having our wages so high woudnt it cost more in the last leg of the journey here vs in usa. Probably got to do with fewer parcels travelling out vs travelling in. And these planes will have to fly with or without cargo. So the cost is apportioned over fewer items making shipping more per item.
Means Australians stand no chance of becoming an an international online store for genric goods.
Means Australians stand no chance of becoming an an international online store for genric goods.
That's pretty much the size of it. Since those goods are made overseas anyway, the Internet is doing a good job of cutting out the middle person. The only thing a local retailer can offer is support. Not much of that needed for generic stuff.
Yeah it's a joke. I bought 2x pants from the UK. $25 shipping from UK to here (Royal Mail). I was sent the wrong size so I had to return them. $47 return shipping AU to UK for the exact same item.
I sent a package to Germany today
525 Grams
$37
Better to order on Amazon uk next time
rip off
You do realise that they make no money on international exports right? domestic and bulk is what makes up the profit margin on parcels, the other profit area is retail which they both prop up letters which is loosing money hand over fist.
That's how they make 281 million dollars profit this year.
If you read the annual report it outlines everything. That number is artificially propped up by real estate sales as well.
Besides its a business not a charity.
Australia Post is simply part of an international conspiracy, along with the Chinese Communist Party, seeking world domination & free beer. Their mission is to humiliate & oppress your airfridge man in the street.
… i do weary of these constant attacks on Australia Post … tis the free market (well, kind of) boys & girls - supply & demand. "It's a rip off but, umm, yeah, i paid for it". That's right, you did …
not really a free market… what are other options for us to send stuff to the USA?
I had a laptop shipped to me in Perth from Wisconsin USA, cost was $35 and took 5 days shipping… A whole freakin laptop… yet sending a box of chocolates the other direction costs $35 too…
you can tell what size PO box voteoften has from that can you?
yeah nice fact…makes faces at you