Postage Price Increases for 1 July 2024 @ Australia Post

AkuroPlays on 07/06/2024 - 00:04

On 1 July 2024, we’re increasing prices for the following retail products and services: 

  • Domestic parcels
  • International parcels and letters
  • Unaddressed Mail services
  • Mail Redirection and Mail Hold services
  • Local Pickup and Delivery
  • The Extra Cover offer available to MyPost Business customers will increase.

Importantly, there is no change to the Basic Postage Rate (domestic stamps).

Competition Mail, and the Separate Bag service and Key Return service offered in Post Offices, will no longer be available.

The pricing for all of our retail products and services is set out in our Post Charges guide (PDF 979kB). The Post Charges guide will be updated on 1 July 2024. 

Full details of the upcoming changes are listed here.

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  • Hybroid on 07/06/2024 - 00:12
    +5

    They also seem to be closing down some 24/7 Parcel Lockers, particularly those attached to Woolworths stores.

    The Woolworths Moorebank one on Stockton Ave is being removed this month.

  • JIMB0 on 07/06/2024 - 05:19
    +2

    Gotta pay for those branch closures somehow.

  • montorola on 07/06/2024 - 07:57
    +5

    Someones gotta pay for the Cartier watches for the executives…

  • mrdean on 07/06/2024 - 08:26
    +2

    We LOVE corporatized essential services! They are absolutely doing the best they can for the PEOPLE.

  • newbiesh on 07/06/2024 - 08:36
    -1

    use sendle 40% cheaper usually

    • scotty on 07/06/2024 - 09:19

      How do you get that on the standard rate, i.e. not already spending thousands with Sendle? I've been trying to use Sendle to send the OzBargain hoodies for our current competition. Sendle is not any cheaper than AusPost unless it's the same city, which is only slightly cheaper.

      • newbiesh on 07/06/2024 - 16:41

        Like the cost of not using petrol/fuel to go post office and wait on queue, sendle they come pick it up from you and as well as going after a printer machine to print the label as sendle has paperless that I just put a code and they print it on spot when they pick it up.
        As well as not using post office parcel boxing and packages which are expensive and I just use plastic bags wrapped with a tape.
        these counts too :)

    • SimAus007 on 07/06/2024 - 10:39

      I occasionally use Sendle, but I don't find it cheaper, I usually find it much more expensive. What sized parcels do you normally send? Mine are usually 40cm x 50cm x 10cm up to 1KG, punching this in say from Melbourne to Sydney or Brisbane, it's definitely not cheaper.
      I'm on Band 2 rates with Aus Post.

  • jason101 on 07/06/2024 - 08:37
    +4

    Bad news for Ozbargainers as these price rises get passed on to consumers ;-(

    I've had the same rant so many times I'm actually sick of listening to the voices inside my own head. If service standards rose (actual delivery times in accordance with Aust Post guidance or legislated requirements) I wouldn't mind so much, but this is another business where price increases are NOT linked to productivity outcomes or customer service benchmarks.

    Slow mail = too bad so sad

    Lost mail = no registration or insurance = don't even talk to us we don't care

    Internal theft from their network = not our problem, read our t & c

    Delivery to most of Australia 3 times per week only (or less) = yes, we did that

    No collections from 3pm Friday until 11am Monday from many post offices = yes, we did that

    Business account managers who do not give out phone numbers or reply to emails = yes that is our policy, we decide if you have a problem, not you.

    Robots who measure mail during the processing route and automatically up-bill business users if the robot determines underpaid mail = yes, what a revolution, we're so innovative.

    Business account holders are now charged PER DAY a percentage of overdue account amounts, (in addition to a late fee of course) even if amount are in disupute because of faulty up-billing robots = YES, YES, YES !!

    Business accounts only sent via email as the postal MAIL system is TOO SLOW to get Australia Post accounts to business customers before their due date….. Ummm yes, that happened !

    • dtc on 07/06/2024 - 08:55

      Your rant is all great but the point is that AusPost has a huge fixed cost base and decreasing revenue to fund that cost base.

      • carwashhair on 07/06/2024 - 09:32

        decreasing revenue to fund that cost base

        I'm probably missing a few things here, but each time Auspost trot this line out I still end up scratching my head and wondering " but how?". One one level I get it - less letters going through the system over the past decade, with the only offset being a ~50% postage stamp cost increase in 5 years. But noises from Auspost is that parcel delivery (esp thru Covid) has never been more in demand, such that parcel delivery is more or less subsidising letters.

        The latest 'cost-cutting' is alternate-day letter delivery; so while there is theoretically a 50% reduction in service, I'd imagine the major cost of providing this service (labour) stays the same in the short-medium term. So in my mind staff that were delivering letters can now work on parcel delivery, and either parcel delivery service quality ought to improve, or parcel delivery costs come down. I just don't see either of those happening :( there must be more I'm missing…

    • SimAus007 on 07/06/2024 - 10:53

      Of course they send business accounts via email, most businesses do this now or charge a fee if you want it sent via post, what business would want that in 2024? Mail is dead, Aus Post is predominantly a parcel delivery service now.
      I probably check my actual post box maybe once a month, as I don't get anything important sent to it now (other than when I request a credit card).

  • havequick on 07/06/2024 - 09:17
    +2

    How about you actually knock on my door instead immediately listing me as not home and dumping it at the post office out of sheer laziness.

    Literally. Every. Single. Time.

    • skittlebrau on 07/06/2024 - 11:08

      Sadly it's the norm in some areas. I'm lucky in that I can't really fault my local posties since they take the time to ring my gate intercom, I open it remotely from the office and they leave the parcel at my front door.

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