I have some coins I wish to sell but am unsure what the postage price should be. I have a postage charges easy guide but can't find anything on it about posting padded bags and/or their posting price. Are they counted as large letters?
So if the packed article weighs under 100g, what would the price be, not including the price of the bag? I also need to add the cost of registered post.
thanks in advance if some one can help me with this.
Hi Lacey, $3.10/20 for registered & most of the ones i receive have 2 X 60 cent stamps on them so $4.40 should cover it or you could put them in a registered envelope @ $3.90 ,i use 2 pieces of sturdy cardboard & secure the coins between them.
Large letters have to be under 20mm thick. Then mostly postage is $1.20, $1.80 or $3.00 depending on weight up to 500g. Bigger than that and it becomes a parcel and more expensive.
A padded bag with a slab in it is under 20mm thick so a few coins or 2x2's under 100g should be fine for $1.20 stamps.
I use this a lot
AP Calculator (http://auspost.com.au/products-and-services/postage-assessment-calculator.html)
and my trusty letter gauge that my PO ordered in for me.
Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='1283' dateline='1349588335'Large letters have to be under 20mm thick. Then mostly postage is $1.20, $1.80 or $3.00 depending on weight up to 500g. Bigger than that and it becomes a parcel and more expensive.
A padded bag with a slab in it is under 20mm thick so a few coins or 2x2's under 100g should be fine for $1.20 stamps.
I use this a lot
AP Calculator (http://auspost.com.au/products-and-services/postage-assessment-calculator.html)
and my trusty letter gauge that my PO ordered in for me.
Thanks AC and PP. That should help me muchly. :thank_you:
If the size is within the letter size guidelines then letter rate applies. But, some PO counter staff will tell you that an envelope, padded bag or very slim box is not a letter and has to be sent at parcel post rate. Best response is to ask for a copy of latest Post Charges booklet, open it to pages 10 and 11 and ask them to show you in the letter definitions why your letter is a parcel??
It is possible to send about 12, or so, 20¢ or 50¢ coins as a small letter as long as you keep thickness below 5mm. The trick is to cut a C4 envelope into two and make two smaller envelopes at, say 128mm x 229mm (just under largest possible small letter size -then sandwich the coins between two pieces of thin card. As far as I know nobody markets an envelope to maximise the size of your small letter (again PO staff might want to argue the point but ask them the feed it through their letter gauge).
Letter definitions (http://auspost.com.au/business/full-rate-mail.html)
International letters are not allowed to contain anything non-paper BY AP's definition.[/color] Don't even try; will probably be rejected by customs from x-ray inspection and returned to you, possibly with a penalty charge if you want to reclaim.
Jeff
That reminds me, I have the new Australia post (post charges booklet 22 October 2012) it has new prices, that means everything is going up.
My post office not only checks the slot to see if the envelope slides thru but also weighs the letter too, kinda annoying.
Anyway I have found ways around it with cleaver packaging.
Hay my post office also got me a letter gauge cardboard thing so you can see if the letter fit thru, saves being disappointed when you go to the post office to mail something and finding out it doesn’t fit.
Ill start a new thread up with the new prices coming in for everyone.