Shipping from South Africa to Australia

Abaddon on 17/09/2024 - 20:00

Has anyone found a good service for shipping packages from South Africa to Australia?

I am looking to get a small package (under 2KG) delivered to me from a producer I met online. And I can't find any options for under $170 (ParcelABC) which seems pretty steep, FedEx is what the sender suggested at ~$280.

I can't seem to find an unaccompanied luggage service (e.g. like lifto.io) that operates in South Africa. And short of posting on travel sites and trying not to get scammed I'm coming up short on cost effective options.

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Fredfloresjr on 17/09/2024 - 20:20

+1

I am looking to get a small package (under 2KG) delivered to me from a producer of met online. Lol, really thought.
Protractor on 17/09/2024 - 20:37

+1

Just throw it on the immigration conveyor belt
paulg on 17/09/2024 - 20:49

It's been a while since I've done it, but I would think PostNet would be the most economical/safe way to ship things to yourself. https://www.postnet.co.za/international-postnet-global-expre…
- Abaddon on 18/09/2024 - 13:33
  
  I'll see if I can get pricing from the sender. PostNet doesn't seem to advertise any pricing I can see.
EFC94 on 17/09/2024 - 21:28

+1

Excuse me naivety, but why not just the local South African postal service? I sent 2 large (imagine about 6 shoe boxes combined) parcels from Brazil to Australia about 10 years ago and they arrived perfectly fine.
- illogicalerror on 17/09/2024 - 21:37
  
  SA postal service is a pseudo-criminal enterprise that's missing several wheels and has a corner propped up with a mouldy white pages. The stuff will either never arrive or will take 6 months.
  - Protractor on 17/09/2024 - 22:05
    
    -4
    
    Not surprised . It's a by product of oppressive colonisation and the Aparthied system .
    - Cluster on 18/09/2024 - 00:44
      
      +3
      
      Well, its been 30 years. No one expects the country to reform overnight, but at some stage the new regime needs to take at least a small slice of the blame for the current situation.
      - ytthr on 18/09/2024 - 12:14
        
        @Cluster: 30 years for people who were denied a basic proper education to reform the mess that that was left is sadly not enough.
    - illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 08:52
      
      Considering they can't even keep the power on whilst leaders live a life of glamour and luxury, one would hope that the blame for the current situation is placed where it belongs.
      
      https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4509915-stop-baili…
      - Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 09:08
        
        @illogicalerror: All the wealth was milked off at Apartheids end and the structure scarpered leaving chaos.That's the history,dude.The corruption now is the reaping of the sowing
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 10:23
        
        -1
        
        @Protractor: You clearly have not lived there and aren't looking at the rest of Africa to see how tribal minded people behave. It's universally the same.
        
        It's not history, it's right now, and it's happening in pretty much every country in Africa.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 11:18
        
        -1
        
        @illogicalerror: Where did all the wealth go….
        
        Where I live has zilch to do with it.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 11:50
        
        -1
        
        @Protractor: Where you have lived has everything to do though, because you lack perspective. Apartheid was not a slave regime, it was a separation of classes. Most everyone who can remember agrees it was better then for everyone, white, black and coloured, than it is now.
        
        It's one off the richest countries in the world in terms of resources. Look at it's leaders if you wonder where the money is. Was some money stolen 30 years ago? Probably, it's Africa, and there's trillions to account for since then… and there's no question where that went.
        
        Just google where it's wealth went, the answers are obvious to me but you need to read. It's history is nothing like us or the US, and nothing like hit piece media from the day would have you believe. Information is free now.
        
        ytthr on 18/09/2024 - 12:24
        
        +1
        
        @illogicalerror: No way Apartheid was better for black and coloured. Beaten and jailed for using the wrong public toilet or catching a while only bus. How is that better?
        It was easy to be a rich country with cheap black labour, and only providing services to a small minority of the population.
        I am sad that some folks still thinks Apartheid was not wrong.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 12:34
        
        @ytthr: They didn't pay tax, they had good housing, they had good education, they had good health care, they had electricity, they had water, they had low crime, they had provincial government, they had jobs, and many other things they don't have now. It's was pretty easy to not go in the white facilities. As inequal and unfair as that is, the Apartheid government was not the gestapo invading peoples homes.
        
        It's not about right and wrong either. It's clearly a very strong degree of wrong what is happening in South Africa right now and no one cares, because there was white racist people in charge before. I think the vast majority of people think that many Apartheid policies were wrong, even the same ones who think it was better then. Myself included.
        
        Don't believe me though. Go on Quora and read the responses from many South Africans. These sorts of questions have been asked.
        
        ytthr on 18/09/2024 - 13:57
        
        +1
        
        @illogicalerror: You a worry bro,
        Good education, no way, that was for whites only. Afrikaans schools and universities got the most funding. Black schools got very little as part of the suppression of black people. The reality is blacks have better education now, and whites have worse education now.
        
        Health care, seperate hospitals for blacks with the worst funding. The reality is blacks have better public health care now, and whites have worse public health care now.
        
        Electricity - millions in squatter camps (you refer to this as good housing) without electricity. Sadly when Electricity was rolled out to the millions without, the grid could not cope. I guess not ideal, but a little more equal.
        
        Water - millions without running water, but every white had running water.
        
        Low crime - hahah, arrested for not caring a pass, beaten up for addressing a white person incorrectly.
        
        "It's was pretty easy to not go in the white facilities" - if you need the loo, you need the loo, you should not get arrested and beaten for taking a pee in a whites only toilet. Separating facilities based on skin colour - and you think this is ok.
        
        The Apartheid government was disgusting. Suppress the black man and job protection for the Afrikaans whites.
        Your opinion is of a privileged white South African, and yes - apartheid must have been wonderful for you.
        
        Last thought - you keep referring to "they had.." not "we had .." I read "they" as "blacks" in your comments. This saddens me. I hope one day your grandkids can say "we".
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 17:13
        
        @ytthr: Yes you're right to some extent with my generalizations. Just that the difference now is the inequality is even greater, it's just legally colour blind.
        
        Blackouts are only because of lack of maintenance on electrical grids, corruption. Only this.
        
        Water running out (whole cities, not taps) is because of poor water resource management, corruption. Only this.
        
        Squatter camps have spread larger than ever and the crime, hunger and disease within and the general community is worse than ever.
        
        Yes low crime historically, people scared to commit crimes before might be a reason for this. Rape and murder rates in South Africa are insane and have been so since Apartheid ended. The dire socioeconomic situation and utter lawlessness might be another reason for the crime as well. There being heinously unfair segregationist punishments in the past does not change any of that.
        
        I never said I think anything about this is okay… okay? It's really not. I don't have to think reality is okay for it to be real.
        
        I have no idea when people try to explain how fkd things are in South Africa for literally everyone now they think you're racist. Like, when unemployment is almost 40%, over 40% of women are raped, 30% of children are stunted from malnutrition, murder rate is 45/100k, the power doesn't stay on all day in businesses, the roads are full of holes, the police pester the public constantly for bribes, and so many other problems, and you say it was better before… you're racist and wrong. Even wrong for thinking such a bad thing. Fk me dead.
        
        Yes the Apartheid government was disgusting, I agree, the current South African government is also disgusting, just in different ways. It's not the South Africa that Mandela dreamed of and that we all voted for, it's become something terribly different.
        
        I say "they had" in response to your statement about blacks. If I said "we had" that would have meant I was a black person there. So yes you read it totally right. It will be a freak of nature if my kids are suddenly talking about themselves being black. I'm ambivalent about the laws of reality, I'm sorry that saddens you. Hopefully one day your grandchildren will learn not to assume things about people, but actually read and listen rather.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 12:58
        
        +1
        
        @ytthr: Not some folks,specific folks.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 12:32
        
        +1
        
        @illogicalerror: We keep hearing the same skewed dominant versions of history, even (especially) on Google. Who benefited from Apartheid. Which classes colours? And beyond it's tear down where did the massive 'personal' and corporate wealth really go when the floodgates out opened?
        Side fact>Apartheid was born here & "perfected" in SAf.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 12:41
        
        -1
        
        @Protractor: Which massive wealth are you referring to? I'm starting to wonder what exactly you're talking about especially when you are claiming that available information is skewed..
        
        I still don't buy the reasoning "We can't help but steal everything, create the highest unemployment in the world, create a domestic energy crisis, create a domestic water crisis, create a violence crisis, create a healthcare crisis, create an education crisis, create an (even worse) inequality crisis, because we weren't free to do so 30 years ago". The blame lays squarely with the people doing these things right now. It doesn't matter what happened over a generation ago, that excuse has expired, it's inexcusable. It's against human rights, children's rights, so many rights we hold true and inalienable.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 12:44
        
        +2
        
        @illogicalerror: I'm not disputing the outcome, your disputing the core cause.
        And to paint Apartheid as rosy as you did, is also disingenuous.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 12:52
        
        @Protractor: My cause is that I don't accept African corruption apologists, history is not an excuse to break human rights now. No excuse.
        
        I didn't paint Apartheid as rosy either, that's disingenuous and inflammatory.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 12:57
        
        @illogicalerror: You said Apartheid was not a slave regime. Meh, BS.
        "Disingenuous" is a very generous term, for that statement.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 13:01
        
        @Protractor: Well it's a fact, like i said "Apartheid was not a slave regime, it was a separation of classes.". Apartheid was created through fear at the end of slavery in South Africa to assert white supremacy.
        
        There's lots of facts on the table here.
        
        Protractor on 18/09/2024 - 13:40
        
        +1
        
        @illogicalerror: Rewrite it however you want. It was repressive regime riddled with slavery,land theft atrocities and forced labour.Which benefited one class of people.The impacts are still obvious.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 14:19
        
        @Protractor: I'm not rewriting anything, I just like my words in english to mean the same things they do in english. If you don't like what it means don't try and correct other people to fit your definition of words.
        
        Ownership of people (slavery) ended, and indentured service and Apartheid was introduced. Here you can read about it in this link.
        https://www.history.com/news/apartheid-policies-photos-nelso…
        
        The staggering amount of violence and corruption that goes on on that continent beggars belief. Which is why I have a problem with African corruption apologists. And it's not because I'm racist, and it's not because previous governments were good, it is simply because the current SA government is out of hand, they are not trying to right anything, they are simply stealing as much as they can, and there is no excuse now. It's a violation of human rights. The end.
        
        ytthr on 18/09/2024 - 14:04
        
        @illogicalerror: " it was a separation of classes" s/be " it was a separation based on skin colour" The apartheid law was about skin colour, not class.
        
        illogicalerror on 18/09/2024 - 14:19
        
        @ytthr: Yeah the blacks were 2nd class. It was racial segregation. Apartheid literally means set apart.
- sumyungguy on 17/09/2024 - 23:21
  
  Brazil? South Africa?
  - EFC94 on 18/09/2024 - 08:41
    
    I'm not an expert but I'd say it's at a somewhat similar level in terms of crime/quality of life etc, hence the comparison.
    - sumyungguy on 18/09/2024 - 08:53
      
      I skimmed a 2023 report on Integrated Index for Postal Development (2IPD): Australia 67.4; Brazil 50.1; South Africa 32.1
holdenmg on 17/09/2024 - 21:42

+1

Have a look at:
https://www.eurosender.com

You need to convert Euros to AUD$, but it comes down to about AUD$125 depending on Exact Dimensions and Weight.
garetz on 18/09/2024 - 01:55

+1

International shipping prices have skyrocketed, expect to pay alot more than you think is reasonable.
pharkurnell on 18/09/2024 - 12:13

Doesnt send in a boogie board bag does it?
BewareOfThe Dog on 18/09/2024 - 22:43

You can't get it from temu or aliexpress?

Stupid how we it costs so much from sa, usa, uk, nz, eur etc….
- Abaddon on 19/09/2024 - 18:15
  
  No it's custom laser cut parts, so nothing off the shelf.
Abaddon on 19/09/2024 - 18:17

So turns out DHL looks to be the answer. $90aud, mich better than the alternatives I've seen.
- BewareOfThe Dog on 19/09/2024 - 19:47
  
  Good price.

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