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arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkAustralia Post reports $200m annual loss, its first since 2015, amid push to close city brancheswww.theguardian.comMountaineer@aussie.zone to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareSteveTech@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year ago I can’t find anywhere listing what we get in UPU fees for things coming into Australia from China IIRC there’s an excel spreadsheet somewhere with the pricing, but it’s in the UPUs own currency or something like that. The minimum cost of anything coming out of China should be the UPU. I’m pretty sure ‘free shipping’ is just someone else eats the cost of shipping. Edit: Keeping in mind that I have no idea how to properly read this, as for the pricing it looks like in 2016 letter post from Hong Kong to Sydney was 0.538 SDR per KG, which was about AU$1.03 per KG. Also the 77c for the head torch is a one time welcome deal, it shows up as $8.97 for me when logged in. So Aliexpress is probably just making a loss in hopes to make a profit from you later.
IIRC there’s an excel spreadsheet somewhere with the pricing, but it’s in the UPUs own currency or something like that.
I’m pretty sure ‘free shipping’ is just someone else eats the cost of shipping.
Edit:
Keeping in mind that I have no idea how to properly read this, as for the pricing it looks like in 2016 letter post from Hong Kong to Sydney was 0.538 SDR per KG, which was about AU$1.03 per KG.
Also the 77c for the head torch is a one time welcome deal, it shows up as $8.97 for me when logged in. So Aliexpress is probably just making a loss in hopes to make a profit from you later.