Postage from USA to Australia doubled in price?

wrjcu · Mar 6, 2013

Not aware of the reason why but ebay postage for cards seems to have doubled from the US to australia a single cards gonna cost you like $7 or $8 to ship. Anyone shed some light is this our governments genius or something going on with US postal service. Taiwan and Hong Kong prices don't seem to have risen.

ooneil · Mar 6, 2013

Was a US Postal Service decision.

karlsta26 · Mar 6, 2013

pretty sure it's the usps that put their prices up, nothing to do with us here.

wrjcu · Mar 6, 2013

A 100% price hike, when does that happen. It will really effect international sales in my opinion especially on ebay. UPS trying to double profits in one hit or possibly half there workload?

matty83 · Mar 6, 2013

wrjcu said:
A 100% price hike, when does that happen. It will really effect international sales in my opinion especially on ebay. UPS trying to double profits in one hit or possibly half there workload?

Www. Borderlinx

ElkyJnr · Mar 6, 2013

yeah alot of guys now are funny about sending O/S coz of the fee's

as matty said borderlinx. altho it still does work out a bit expensive at times

Wattsup · Mar 6, 2013

The USPS lost 5.2 BILLION dollars last year, so this would have had a massive influence on these austerity measures:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/us-postal-service_n_1760141.html

Shame for all of us. As others have said, Borderlinx is the way to go...

Jaames · Mar 6, 2013

I just sent a card to the US today, cost my $10.60, I only charged $3.50 because that's all it normally cost me. Really extra money I don't have at the moment.

Jaames · Mar 6, 2013

My bad, thought this was Oz to US. Disregard my other post

wrjcu · Mar 6, 2013

matty83 said:
Www. Borderlinx

not sure if sellers are using that service on the bay

motiv8dan · Mar 6, 2013

I buy heaps on ebay.com and none of them have an issue sending to my Borderlinx address

ooneil · Mar 6, 2013

motiv8dan said:
I buy heaps on ebay.com and none of them have an issue sending to my Borderlinx address

+1

matty83 · Mar 6, 2013

wrjcu said:
not sure if sellers are using that service on the bay

Search on here for a borderlinx thread, this will greatly help you out.

Shaun · Mar 6, 2013

Has this effected the price of cards going the other way? I rarely post from the PO, I just put abut $2.40 worth of stamps and send it, haven't had a problem yet. What are they actually charging at the post office these days?

wrjcu · Mar 6, 2013

so borderlinx is what somewhere u can get mail sent then they onsend it to u? wouldnt that cost more two postage costs?

drobfan8 · Mar 6, 2013

Shaun said:
Has this effected the price of cards going the other way? I rarely post from the PO, I just put abut $2.40 worth of stamps and send it, haven't had a problem yet. What are they actually charging at the post office these days?

The other day I got stung $6 each envelope to the U.S. From the same PO that it used to be $2.40 or something.

matty83 · Mar 7, 2013

wrjcu said:
so borderlinx is what somewhere u can get mail sent then they onsend it to u? wouldnt that cost more two postage costs?

Its a place in the USA so postage to your borderlinx hub is cheap, sometimes free depending on the ebay listing. I think you can get cards sent the for upto a month at a time.

Then once all the cards are there you can have them shipped as one lot instead of paying extra shipping on each individual card. Works out a lot cheaper if you buy/ship many cards from the USA

Muzza · Mar 7, 2013

Don't have much insight in to this but a interesting correspondence recently from a US seller. He had international postage at $4.50 which I considered to be quite good. I wanted to buy a heap of cheap NFL inserts, about 15 cards at $1 a pop. Inquired about combined postage and he replied that the $4.50 was for up to 40 cards! He said it cost more but he covered that cost!!!

I offered to pay more but at checkout it automatically adjusted the postage to $4.50. When the package arrived it had $9.50 postage on it, so he was $5 out of pocket. If I'd bought 40 cards he'd have lost more on the deal. Can't see any sense in that, is he just a good bloke who wants to bump up his ebay status??? He'll surely go broke.

Anyway, I have found postage from US to Aust to fluctuate from around $3.50 to $33 for a single card. Who's gunna pay a $30+ postage charge? That's what you pay for a box or more.

I'm happy to go up to around $7 for a card I really want.
And I am taking advantage of Owen's offer to use his Borderlinx deal for stuff that I can't get shipped here.

Brian Lee · Mar 19, 2013

First of all, for packages going out of Australia, the base price has no it changed, it remains at $2.35 for up to 50g. But they merged the next two weight ranges, charging $6.20 for 51-250g. So send things in separate packages if possible.

For packages coming from the USA, the prices have not changed, but the definition of a large letter has. According to Jason, they now consider our cards as unbendable, so they no longer qualify as letters, instead they are now packages which is like a flat parcel. This is on the USPS site.

Richo · Mar 24, 2013

wrjcu said:
Not aware of the reason why but ebay postage for cards seems to have doubled from the US to australia a single cards gonna cost you like $7 or $8 to ship. Anyone shed some light is this our governments genius or something going on with US postal service. Taiwan and Hong Kong prices don't seem to have risen.

For some reason they always overcharge to AU Part of the reason I gave up buying from there.

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