Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon
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The truth unfortunately is your comments apply to Australia as a whole. We get more small items coming in from HK and Singapore than we ever ship back. I was going to mention this after Robusto correctly complained about the cost of local shipping. These overseas items are carried for free by Australia Post (due to international postal treaties) which means there cost base is up helping the overseas companies (who get subsidised post in those two locations ). In the end poor Aussie business and consumers pay higher prices for postage due to so many buying from China. You note even when you buy from mainland China it usually comes through HK post, this is because HK (like Singapore ) is the size of a postage stamp, reciprocal posting rights aren't the same at each end. The far reaches of HK is a few km, of Australia somewhat more.
I actually looked at setting up a spares section for part of our business in HK, for many small items postage is a third of the cost. I didn't do it as seemed morally wrong, but would have been profitable for us and taken some cost out for the end user, but with a time penalty.


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