Shipping costs re purchased goods from MFJ Enterprises

[VK4KL]

Not just eBay rip people off (no not defending eBay) an item weighing around 20 grams will cost, if I take the item, will cost me $15 to send from Brisbane to Yarraman. Item cost $6.50

Adrian

[VK2AAH]

No problem, when I started using them in about 2010 I was the first in my office. Now there are at least 5 others I work with who have used MAS. Those talking about Australia Post neglect to consider how savings can be made. They either negotiate volume discounts- which MAS has via DHL as they ship many pallets of goods via LAX to Sydney each week. The second is that you achieve greater savings by consolidating multiple packages into a single package... if you have a heavy item (like a valve amp, a base radio or a large antenna) you combine it with light weight smaller items (shoes, shirts, jeans etc) and the unit cost for each of the smaller items drop to almost nothing. Australia Post isn't going to do that... it works against their interests. And items are very well repackaged... For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would use a service that ships via the USPS or Australia Post... suckers... Try shipping an Ameritron AL811 from the US... I doubt USPS would even ship it due to its weight, FedEx wants more than $300 (closer to $400), and MAS could get it to me for a bit over $200 (insured, in under a week, door to door). Try doing that with traditional postal services!

Cheers


Richard

[VK4TI]

I just moved two power supplys from the south to Brisbane , total weight 181kg with quotes from $1300.00 dollarsdown , finally getting door to door delivery with power tailgate @ $202.00

shopping around and being willing to accept 3 or 4 day delivery is affordable

[VK2JDH]

many ebay sellers have options but they take the most expensive freight due to lazyness regarding the guidelines , if you inquire it's usually possible ship outside the forced guidelines and get fit much much cheaper , next time ?

But to get seller protection they have to use a PP and ebay compliant shipping method. That normally means tracking , proof of shipping or proof of delivery ( depending on which ebay you buy from) which is more expensive that standard USPS parcels.

[GM3SEK]

Bought a Kenwood MC60 microphone off eBay a few months ago for US$62 no cost for postage included has they had to get actual cost from post office. Bombshell was US$120, they included the postage receipt. Unfortunately I had committed to buy maybe I should have taken a bad feedback instead. Mic is good tho

Adrian

That is exactly what I meant by "bad advice from postal clerks" in the USA.

Responding to an earlier comment: Sure, everybody has to learn for the first time about economical methods of shipping abroad - but that is much more difficult in a country like the USA where even the people who should know are equally clueless.


73 from Ian GM3SEK

[VK2CSW]

So I guess with the need to use a VPN to avoid Tony's surveillance, and the need to use a US Post forwarder then we should all get US call signs and join the ARRL.

[VK2CSW]

By the By - I guess Australia Post has lost the high regard they were once held in:

THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson

The roving breezes come and go, the reed beds sweep and sway,
The sleepy river murmurs low, and loiters on its way,
It is the land of lots o' time along the Castlereagh.

The old man's son had left the farm, he found it dull and slow,
He drifted to the great North-west where all the rovers go.
"He's gone so long," the old man said, "he's dropped right out of mind,
But if you'd write a line to him I'd take it very kind;
He's shearing here and fencing there, a kind of waif and stray,
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.
The sheep are travelling for the grass, and travelling very slow;
They may be at Mundooran now, or past the Overflow,
Or tramping down the black soil flats across by Waddiwong,
But all those little country towns would send the letter wrong,
The mailman, if he's extra tired, would pass them in his sleep,
It's safest to address the note to "Care of Conroy's sheep",
For five and twenty thousand head can scarcely go astray,
You write to "Care of Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh"."

By rock and ridge and riverside the western mail has gone,
Across the great Blue Mountain Range to take that letter on.
A moment on the topmost grade while open fire doors glare,
She pauses like a living thing to breathe the mountain air,
Then launches down the other side across the plains away
To bear that note to "Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh".

And now by coach and mailman's bag it goes from town to town,
And Conroy's Gap and Conroy's Creek have marked it "further down".
Beneath a sky of deepest blue where never cloud abides,
A speck upon the waste of plain the lonely mailman rides.
Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep
He hails the shearers passing by for news of Conroy's sheep.
By big lagoons where wildfowl play and crested pigeons flock,
By camp fires where the drovers ride around their restless stock,
And past the teamster toiling down to fetch the wool away
My letter chases Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh.

The Bulletin, 10 March 1894

These days I bet you'd find the letter in the rubbish pile in pretty quick order...