Postage last year was $1.60 for a card to be sent - this year it has jumped to $2.60 - why!? How can they justify this increase? We have decided to post all cards,sealed & addressed to one main person in a small package with money to forward them on with english stamps (60p for first class) - will work out a lot cheaper. Just have to let his sister know now that she will have this job when they reach her!!
But Australia Post need questioning on this massive increase.
I say we privatise Australia Post. I sent a 1kg package to the United States for a total shipping fee of $43!
I sold a ultimate loot copy of borderlands 2 to someone on eBay that lived not far from Alice springs and they charge around $58 registered, they don't even have express postage even if your willing to pay it, but who would?
Get a quote from someone else and prepare to be shocked.
I ordered 2 pairs of football boots from Start Football in the UK and they were delivered for GBP20. I then had to return one pair for a larger size and was charged $45.
Both were just signed delivery, nothing special, and both were delivered within 10 days.
I just cannot believe how much we are being ripped off, as it certainly cannot be anything to do with reciprocated postage arrangements.
What other options do we have for parcel postage in AU that can be looked at?
Pax
Every year in Nov / Dec I buy enough stamps to cover me for all cards and letters that I may want to send over the next year or 2. That way, I get Christmas priced postage all year. I won't need to buy any stamps till next year now.
But the price goes up every year - but not as much as it has this year. So do you plan to send everything with an old postage rate at the risk of them not being delivered at all or worse still the recipient having to pay the excess?
I have been doing that for years. If I were to find an old unused stamp at the back of my drawer with a face value of say 50 cents I would use it. I have never had a problem.
Yes, also cut off unfranked stamps from envelopes and sellotape (no need for steam), them on to another envelope. I like it when a parcel arrives and none of them have been franked.
You can also try steaming off the stamps from post sent to you which has not been franked to re-use
Yeah there is another name for that, FRAUD!!!!
Why? - When they have increased their charges by apx.60% to send a card. $1.60 last year - now $2.60. That is extortionate - have your wages gone up 60% this year - if so would like to know how. For the majority of us it will hurt just to keep in touch. Also,going back to my original question - how did it happen so quietly with no news broadcast on T.V. or Radio.
Watch out for the Feds knocking down your door with the riot squad and dogs over 60 cents. It's not fraud. It would be if they were franked and you washed the ink off them somehow, but for unadulterated stamp, no.
I know of a couple of large charities, who have paid part-time positions dedicated to checking / removing unfranked stamps for reuse.
Well worth it, goosegog, in view of the rip off!
How can it be fraud if they've neglected to frank the stamp?
It epitomises their whole attitude as a postal service.
Why doesn't someone start up an alternative?
Couldn't even the far-flung places be serviced by incorporating existing potential delivery channels?
C'mon, Clive P; you like a challenge!
Thank you - just wanted to voice my anger at this & gain other views on this massive increase in price.
what a load of $#** Australia Post !
someone got the answer from AUSTRALIA POST @ facebook " Australia Post wrote "
· ..The rises in postage prices are a bit steep dont you think!
Like · .
Australia Post Hi ***
I do understand that price rises are never something anyone looks forward to or is happy about, but this is a tough economic climate we are all living and working in.
AliceOctober 25, 2012 at 4:11pm · Like..Abadboy Insydney " tough economic climate we are all living and working in " what a LOAD of *** its simply corporate greed the way I see it - I still have purchased "christmas' issue " stamps of 39 cents —-quite simply ——I am not sending any cards anymore as it is not affordable for me as a single person "living in a tough economic climate
Only a monopoly can raise prices by that much in a tough economic climate.
aust post are a monopoly
they know most australians have some money
they know most australians will just go "tut tut price rise, oh well, please send this as i'm already here and its only a dollar"
Just sent a domestic 1kg parcel within Korea today and it only cost $4 to ship and a approx 20x20x30 box for 50c. Would definitely have cost around $20 to send within Aus. Wish they would stop increasing the prices.
Just how big is Korea?
Seems like you are comparing grapes to watermelons,not quite the same.
And whereabouts in Korea do you live?
Someone sent me a 1kg package once from Korea, cost them about $10.
I sent them a 1 kg package from Melbourne and it cost me $50.
Dear God. And you're Macgyver. Imagine what the rest of us would have paid. It is outrageous though, especially since the higher ups are really screwing the delivery drivers down to even less than the pittance they are getting now. Get ready for getting your mail two or three days a week, not five.
I sent an HDD to my brother in Spain a couple of years ago and it cost about $70 I think. Had another brother send me one from Prague and it was literally 1/10th the price…
It is technically an offence to reuse stamps, franked or not.
POSTAL SERVICES ACT 1975 No. 54, 1975 - SECT 88
Fraudulently removing stamps.
88. (1) A person shall not, with intent to defraud-
(a) remove from a postal article sent by post any postage stamp affixed to
the article;
(b) remove from a postage stamp that has previously been used any postmark
made on the stamp; or
(c) use for postal purposes a postage stamp that has previously been used
for postal purposes or has been obliterated or defaced.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year.
(2) In any proceedings for an offence against paragraph (1) (c), proof that
the person charged with the offence caused the postal article to be posted is
prima facie evidence that he used the stamp affixed to the postal article for
postal purposes.
lol who cares?
Anyone who basically wants to do the right thing.If we all defrauded businesses then there would be no businesses that cared for their customers.
They didn't slip through the increase, they announced it !
OZ POST
However they did take the increase "very seriously"
So, I guess we are lucky it wasn't a flippant increase.
They're just recovering the postage costs on all the stuff Ozbargainers buy from Amazon UK, The Hut, Zavvi and so on