These two MASSIVE postage tricks will make your reseller business EXPLODE MUST WATCH TIPS
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I didn't know this, Tory.
Thanks Deano. ( G-town ebayer. Side hassle🤔 )
I am currently binge watch all your videos. Love your content mate 👍
I hope to see you on the thrift one day soon.
Hope this reads OK as I am Dyslexic.
@@jorzakylifestyle984 mate I’m autistic and it reads fine
I am in the USA with a reselling business. Customers always pay for postage. I also never pay for packaging materials. I take free boxes from the supermarket and cut them to size for my items.
@@adamh7947 thank you for letting me know my friend. Over here some people give it away others don’t, personally my experiences. People know the postage cost money and that they will have to pay it.
Hi Tory, Didi you know that the small padded mailers are the same external size as the medium vinyl satchels from Aus Post. So in theory with a little manipulation (splitting seam a bit and reenforcing on outside) you can send larger items for the same price as a small parcel. Next time you're in the Aus Post shop do a size comparison on the small padded mailer and medium vinyl satchel and see what I mean. Might be another Aus Post packaging hack.
I will you legend!!! thank you
Great tip. Thanks for taking the time to share it.
Thank you mate
Thinking I should start sticking half a table tennis ball on everything I send out 😁. Thanks for the inside scoop, deffo worth thinking about
I send irregular shapes regularly (pun!), they just take the measurement off the widest points. It's on the aus post website, with a diagram, to do this. Sounds like your local PO staff are just doing you a favour or don't know the rules. Anyway, enjoy it while it lasts. Aus Post's insane volume to weight equivalence is the reason why I don't sell many bulky items anymore even if they're light as a feather, they re-tiered their volume bracketing a few months ago, [drastically - no one made a video about it that I'm aware of], so now everything that gets hit with the measuring tape costs a fortune more than it used to.
@@spacelord1913 I’m not sure mate. I’m just stoked that I could share it with people. My local post office has good people running it.
It will go trough a laser scanner and you will be pinged by dimensions ( drawing a cross in the middle of the box) and your customer can end up with the extra charge at their end . but if it works 4 u, so be it .
Love how excited you are about this. 😂
Another odd thing.. You can fit a small 5kg item into a small Auspost satchel, and it's priced as a small parcel.
But on the otherhand it's cheaper to send a large light weight item up to 500g into a generic XL satchel, as it will be priced as a small parcel! 😂
Great tips!!!
Just another Tip for the new resellers mate, is with your band discounts while paying at the Post Office Counter, I like how you get the discount, but the postage label still has the full postage price on it, so the Customer still thinks thats what you have paid.
Big savings when you are sending stuff everyday.👌
Ideally you want to reduce the perceived postage costs as much as you can rather than increase the perceived postage costs in any way. Customers base their decision on the total, but they also view postage as an additional cost they would rather not pay too much for.
Here is what I learnt watching Back from Burnout - if item that weighted more than 500g doesn't fit 500g satchel, try the padded mailer small - it will still count as small but padded mailer small is the size of 1kg satchel. Learnt today that many of my items could have benefit this trick. Note she seems to actually do this to most small books, if it fits 500g satchel - use 500g satchel instead as those padded mailers are just not cheap.
Thanks for sharing but I have my doubts.
From Auspost:
2. Next, the parcel’s cubic volume is calculated by
measuring the length (L) x width (W) x height (H)
in metres. When measuring odd shaped articles such
as satchels, measure the maximum points.
I can see a power tripping postie coming in with a sac wack and charging full freight
I can only share my own experience
@@geelong-flipper For sure mate. I'm not knocking you. I appreciate the tip.
@@mackapakka2784 always ❤️ I’ll keep sharing as I’m learning but it works at my po
Thanks much appreciated great video, I wasn't aware of this thanks for sharing 🎉😂
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WTAF! That’s awesome Tory, thanks for the tip ❤
Thanks for the tip.
I just got my first international sale today. A bit scared about sending but will check with PO tomorrow I did everything right on the my post business website.
Great tip. I certainly wasn’t aware of it but then because I don’t sell anything that won’t fit in a Small, Medium or Large bubble mailer an $80 postage charge hasn’t been an issue. ❤
All depends on the post office, my local post office is great they don’t cube anything but a post office a few town away cube everything, a fella boxed up a parcel so that it was cylindrical and they still charged him by cubing
Like 👍 I’ll try and hope for a good result- TY 😊
Fcuk yes lol....Top work uncle flip flip...Been doing re-selling a long time and never heard of that before, wish I had known sooner as posted a set of Childrens Encyclopedia's to WA from Vic in one box and they wanted about the same as you, over 80 sheets...Best I could come up with was to divide the books into 2 smaller parcels, still came to about 60 sheets though...Keep up the good work mate 👍
I signed up to Aust Post Business around 3 months ago and the start point was tier 3 😊
@@nicholewhiteside9147 yes that’s a trial
Thanks for tip!
It's called "Squirrels"
Have been advised similar by a helpful Australia Post person before. If you wrap some bubble wrap in a clump around a box and secure it with a plastic bag (I used a black rubbish bag) …it meant no costly cubing
@@chellisherwin924 that’s awesome. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a TH-camr offering this advice before. And I watched a ton of resellers.
I'm pretty sure you only avoid the cubing if it's under a kilogram
This is just the same type of thing as sending letter rate when the item is a fraction too thick to post as a letter, and staff let it through until they don't. You can rely on it until you get new staff at where you post. or you go somewhere else where they'll just say "yeah nah mate". I've been sending irregular for many years and if I'm paying at the counter without a prepaid label they always measure the widest dimensions WxLxH since it is the correct way of doing it (Aus Post policy). In my case it is using smaller box taped to bigger box, complexity of packing multiple items that fit in the 2 boxes versus what other larger packaging I have on hand, so you get the angle created by tape rather than cutting a larger box, but same irregular result in the end.
You kind of have to bear in mind that they are using letter sorting machines which can jam up when people put the wrong things in them. It's why CD mailers are a thing.
id love to know if your local post offices are LPO's ( licensed post offices) ie privately owned or corporate post offices, ? i find the privately oven ones are more flexible as they get the same amount of money even if they halve the postage price, i think the staff member was doing you a good turn, you have to understand that oversize parcels like your board game end up having to be processed by hand as they are too big to go through the automated sorting at aus post, and further to your questions on the vid, as a seller i only use austpost as they are reliable, ive had parcels sent to me via sendle and they seem to always go into a black hole for 3 days for finally getting delivered 10 day later, yes very cheap, but not good service .lots of the courier company's off good rates and picks up if you have the volume , love your videos,
The problem with adding this tip for all to see is that if AP staff read it and see what we are doing they will change the system to stop us doing it. I have been doing that for 3 years. Sorry to be negative but it won't last if they change the system. Just send the info privately to your paid viewers
Thanks for sharing with us!!!
If you’re with auspost business. Send it as a small satchel.
Even cheaper 😉
What as in anything? Chuck it down as a small satchel?
@@liamtench I mean don’t go too silly. But yeah. I don’t have any issue
@@DiaryofaFlipper I agree it was this was a collectors Lego set so needed love
Weird to make a video talking about Band discounts via MyPost Business and then talk about paying in person at the counter.
AusPost also takes dimensions at the processing facilities and can retroactively bill for underpaid post, so the “just cut a corner off” isn’t that simple.
@@MichaelParker-pg7jl what’s weird about it? I’m not doing the volume to process it all at home and I’ve built a relationship with my PO that they look out for me
@@geelong-flipper It's true it's strange, are you, Geelong Flipper, actually on MyPost Business? I heard you can also do over the counter with MPB discount, but to do everythnig there, it will just take you more time rather than just to drop and go.
@@handoko2020 yes I am but I don’t do so much I need to drop and go. Plus there’s an op shop next to the PO
@@geelong-flipper I would strongly advise against doing this. The customer can end up getting charged at the other end and not everyone has items of a high value to help absorb the cost if you get caught out. Absolutely aghast you never calculated shipping or left it as calculated shipping or pick up. You'll need to do better if doing this fulltime
I just listed something 15 kg, not cubed… still up there but $78 🤞it doesn’t go rural… but huge $ for international shipping
@@sandrageach5955 I hear you
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY DID YOU CHARGE THE CUSTOMER $25 AT THE START, LIKE WHAT MADE YOU THINK IT SHOULD BE AROUND $25 ?
because I'm an idiot.
That’s unreal! How would it work on a box? It looked like yours was thin.
@@Hilton_P that was a box that was for an iMac so super thick at least 3cm thick
Throwing up them devil horns.
Probably we now buy from box supplier that purposely sell irregular size box :)
That would be so cool. who wants to start a business
Wait, are you not just doing this online before going to the post office and lodging. Also, i dont think its correct. The website shoes how to measure irregular items and ita the greater (weight or cubed weight). Ive had underpaid postage due to an irregular shaped box before.
I think the trick could be to pay instore. I think if they fail to cube it it's on them, if you do it online then it's your responsibility to cube it. Maybe I'm talking out my arse, not sure.
@@ornzwa I always pay instore legend
@@mackapakka2784 you’re not that’s why I don’t do it myself
Well thank you very much for that little hint Tory. It is a real crock isn't it?
TLDW
@@presstodelete1165 hahaha not for everyone. Well done on acronym usage