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Originally Posted by h0ughy
20 dollars or ther abouts mike
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I'd be most surprised if it was, Dave.
Postage for
large items (and that's assuming the P.O. will even accept them) is not cheap. I am a regular user of their services when I wear my working hat. For instance: the other day I sent a remote control car to the Longreach, Qld area; it set me back over $40. It was not heavy - probably around 4Kg or so - but as those things tend to be it was a little bulky. One of the models I look after is around 1 metre in length and (I'm guessing) about 400mm wide. By the time it's boxed up properly with styrene packing and such it's too big for Australia Post. It does weigh a few Kg but it's not outside the parameters of normal OH&S standards.
It appears that the reason for the additional expense over equivalent weight but smaller items is that the P.O. uses the cubic centimetre volume of the package to calculate charges once the item exceeds a certain mass. I don't have my references handy, but I think it kicks in at about 2.5Kg.
I haven't checked of late, but they used to use the industry standard of 250Kg per cubic metre as the basis of their calculations. The problem tends to be though that to use a courier for non-local transport is usually even dearer.
If anyone knows of cheaper methods of transport for this sort of thing . . . I'm like Alex's avatar - all ears.
