I need to post a printer interstate - what would be my best option here? Criteria = smallest price possible

It's about 30x20x15cm (l,w,h). Weight = 6kg.

Auspost or courier? About $20 I'm hoping

http://www1.auspost.com.au/pac/


cant people think for themselves these days???

I sent something around the same size (little bigger actually) about 1KG heavier for $20 by normal post recently.

www.auspost.com.au

if I wanted to go registered it would've been $80 though

registered is $2.75 extra on top of standard parcel post. Not 4 times the price

no need to be a jerk crusher gosh

chances are the printer is worth about $80 these days so just tell them to buy a new one at their end?
printers are fragile, far too fragile for the likes of CHUB and his kronies

it will not make it in one piece and you'll end up having to buy another one anyway
I did this when I moved to Sydney, got my old man to pack it up and he said "you know, this wont make it in one piece"

I sighed and agreed, just went to office works and got a full multifunction center for like $70 + $12 for 11ty billion litres of ink on ebay


last edited by tequila at 14:54:57 26/May/09

what suburb in bris?

is it metro delivery interstate?

i work in logistics. prob more than australia post though

registered is $2.75 extra on top of standard parcel post. Not 4 times the price

Was something, maybe it was next day or something else that bumped it right up.

Edit: Just double checked, to express post it it was $80 and it was Brisbane -> Melb or Sydney.

last edited by Syco at 17:06:09 26/May/09

I work for aus post near the airport sorting express post. Australia post do not have a fragile service. If you do post a printer I can guantee it will not work on the other end. All our parcels are 'tipped' into a conveyer belt (about 1 metre drop), thrown into ULD's or into bags then into airline containers.

If you don't feel safe throwing the printer at a wall, DO NOT post it.

slinky, if i register it and post it, then turns out it doesn't work on the other end, i can claim it can't i? Get $100 back?

Take the cartidges out, otherwise they will leak.

slinky, what genious thought it was a good idea to have the machine like that? What purpose does it serve to its efficiency etc to drop thinfs 1m?

slinky, if i register it and post it, then turns out it doesn't work on the other end, i can claim it can't i? Get $100 back?

most of the time you dont get anything. we've had a few parcels lost/damaged in the mail and they just said too bad.


i would send it courier.

last edited by ravn0s at 22:13:32 26/May/09

i just posted a laptop in a padded satchel 1000km and it arrived fine
total cost $11
good job aus post

slinky, what genious thought it was a good idea to have the machine like that? What purpose does it serve to its efficiency etc to drop thinfs 1m?

The mail comes to us loose in a OLD (1.5m x 1.5m 1.5m metal cage) this somehow has to be emptied onto a conveyor belt. So the ULD must go at least 1.5m into the air so the mail can be tipped. The first mail that falls out of the ULD falls the furthest distance and breaks the fall of the following mail. All the mail following will still make the same fall, but ontop of other mail.

The mail that is then stuck in the ULD, a shovel like rod is used to hit and scrape the mail out.

We get broken bottles of wine and spirits through all the time. Unless the office of Lodgement put a "do not tip" sticker on the ULD, it all gets tipped

slinky, if i register it and post it, then turns out it doesn't work on the other end, i can claim it can't i? Get $100 back?

Very possible that you can do this. But they will want to see a recept saying you paid that much for a printer, that's if they cover it. Ring and find out.