The question is:
Can you drop off a parcel to the PO BOX if it's local, rather than sending it?
I mean, walk into the PO Box Office where their PO BOX is and giving it to them to put into there PO BOX without sending it, or posting it…
I'd ask Aust Post but I'd have to wait to tomorrow; I may get an answer here :)
The postage amount doesn't worry me. It's more of, I'm around the corner I'd rather pay a $1.80 stamp than $7 p/h.
I think they will still want to charge you the minimum parcel rate. Here's another reason: by paying them you are entering an agreement not to put anything harmful in the parcel.
Good point.
Weird I cannot find anything on there site about this =/
Probably because it's not a special case, you still have to join the parcel posting queue.
do you mean you are dropping it to the PO box of the recipient.
Why not just stick some old used stamps on it, label it and take it to their counter and say "I saw this outside near the xxxx, maybe the postie dropped it"
Hahaha, good one, nice try, but usually the PO box is virtual where large parcels are concerned, you ask them for what arrived for you and they bring them out. For smaller items, the door could be on their side of the wall, so they won't believe you.
For most post offices (mainly metro, rural is different) nothing is sorted at the actual post office, it's collected, taken to a mail center then sorted and dispatched with the following mornings mail.
This is because of space and time constraints along with volume records and auditing.
Rural is different again, which they do their own sorting of local product and presort out of areas for collection. This is for a pure logistics and delivery timetable reason.
To answer your question, the answer is yes, you will need to pay the correct amount of postage for the article. Post offices who do not are commiting a fraudulent act against Australia Post and can be liable for prosecution (and believe me, they jump on this sort of thing quick and hard)
agree with everyone else. they will charge you for it because its a legal contract of sorts.
i've had the same thing. i bought from a warehouse down the road (literally)
but i had to track it get sent from the warehouse, across the otherside of melbourne to be sorted, and then sent to me on the back of a postie bike.
carbon footprint much?
if they are local, why not ask to meet up and deliver instead?
I did this very thing the other day - you pay the postage and they walk out the back and stick it straight in the PO Box. You have to actually ask them to do it though, otherwise they'll just drop it in a bin ready to go to the nearest mail sorting centre.
I suspect Auspost is not in the business of being a free parcel drop service (even though the recipient is paying for box rental) so I think they will still want to charge you the minimum postage.