Hello,
I am trying to understand the cheapest way I can send my items via Aus Post. I am not sure how other sellers are able to ship items that cost $4, the cheapest I can ship is $7. Guide me.
Any Online Sellers or Aus Post Employees Here? A Question about Posting
TurkishDelight on 29/07/2020 - 17:36
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The shipping cost sold on ebay may not be the true cost, sometime seller put the shipping cost to the item price. They may just use a envelope to send the pair of gloves
Prepaid DL envelope, $1
Buy in bulk & savePostage should be last thing you think about for business
is that seller from Australia or China?
Okay I understand this but how is this seller able to ship it for as low as $0.70?- https://imgur.com/a/D1zjUyp
If the item is flat, send as a letter.
If the item is light, send it from china.
If you can post most of your sales in capital cities from a local address in those cities, you might deliver via a courier in those cities and absorb the extra post for non-city locations.Say, for example, I have a Pet Grooming Glove to ship like this one- https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pet-Dog-Cleaning-Brush-Magic-Tou…
How is that seller able to ship it for just extra $0.70 for postage? - https://imgur.com/a/D1zjUyp
And I can't find a better option to ship it anything lower than $7?
Just use an envelope without tracking. The biggest one is no more than 25mm
I sold a few cases from Ozb day before yesterday and I shipped them out. I used the envelope like you've mentioned but the stamp itself costs $2.20 to me. I was not able to fit more than 1 case in each envelope of if someone ordered two, I had to do 2 separate envelopes with two $2.20 tickets.
I must be doing something wrong. But there is no way I can fit the glove-like that in an envelope so it will cost me at least $7 to ship. Maybe I am using wrong sized envelopes, can you share a link or image of one you are talking about.
@TurkishDelight: You can us A4 or A3 envelope? put those gloves side by side? So it will be the thickness of 1 glove.
@SnoozeAndLose: I am not sure if I can use them. I think for the one with $2.20 ticket, I was only able to use a letter-sized envelope.
@TurkishDelight: $2.20 will cover A4 size envelopes (actually slightly larger) under 125g.
See: https://auspost.com.au/sending/send-within-australia/compare…@mskeggs: Dang it. Got misguided by AU's post staff ended up sending multiple orders in separate envelopes with extra $2.20 ticket. Never mind, lesson learnt. Thanks btw.
@mskeggs: Can I also use plastic satchels for regular letter mail like these ones? or it has to be the paper envelope?
@TurkishDelight: It has to be paper envelopes as satchels are parcels and thus will attract parcel rates, unless the satchels are basically the size of an average smartphone and very flat.
Letter post is able to accommodate up to 20mm thick for a large letter.
$2.20. Doesn’t leave a lot of margin after ebay fees.
But my guess is that seller is shipping from China with local consolidation. I don’t know how that works, but I gather they bring container loads of small parcels over from China and handle customs etc. then inject the small packages into the auspost system in bulk paying Chinese postal rates.
I think auspost prefers this to dealing with millions of little parcels from Shenzhen, so they accept the situation.
Their are heaps of “local” sellers who deliver in the little grey plastic Chinese envelopes with a return address in western Sydney that take a week or two longer to deliver than a local seller who uses auspost for the whole delivery. They miss their indicated delivery date by a week or two, but nobody cares cause it is a $3 item.The upu.int agreement is causing heartburn in developed world post offices globally - to the point where the USA has decided to withdraw.
A bit more: under the upu.int rates a small parcel counts as a letter if it is light weight, even if it is too thick to meet our local thickness restrictions.
Chinese sellers pay 50c (actually less) to mail a letter weight parcel from China, so you can buy a usb cable or pet glove for $2 if you can wait for delivery.Yes, I have learnt I can't compete with Chinese sellers. They don't even let me a have a margin of $0.50 per item. I just wanted to finish selling all the stock sitting in my basement as COVID has hit hard. I made a previous sale of phone cases at $0 margin for profit so that I could have some capital amount back, was a loss tbh.
@TurkishDelight: A lot of Chinese sellers, especially new ones, use the cheap items as loss leaders to get their feedback profile up. eg on AliExpress you may not even show up in a search if your feedback is bad.
China also has a free shipping rate for small & light parcels, they basically go on standby. If an outbound plane happens to have a bit of spare space then they'd shovel a few parcels in there.
COVID-19 has effectively put an end to that, hence no more free shipping or the prices have risen to absorb the cost of having to pay shipping.
Postage rates are set via the UPU. As china is deemed a developing country, its postage rates are lower than a developed country such as Australia.
Unless youre sending 'bulk', like 100 items at a time, you dont get a discount
Any 'special deals' sellers have, arnt coming directly from AusPost