captaincook

Does anybody here have experience of getting australia post to redirect mail to an overseas address ?

I have looked on their website and no mention of it.

heading downunder 2002

Hi Captain Cook,

I got a mail re-direction booklet from the Post Office and it says you can re-direct overseas but have to ask for the charges and it is subject to the usual customs declarations being completed. If you are not here not sure how you would do that. Anyhow we are going to have our mail re-directed to a friend who will then post it on to us. No mention of charges in the booklet but I can't imagine for one minute it is free, nothing else is in this country!!!

amy&matt

a friend of ours did this last year. i'm pretty sure there were charges (not surprising!). try australia post's free calling number to find out more - 131318

Vicky88

You won't find a postal system in the world that is going to redirect your mail overseas for free. Our redirection for 12 months from the UK to US ran at about 60 quid which is probably not even going to cover their costs.

captaincook

i'm happy to pay for the service its just impossible to find out if ozpost actually do it. i've emailed and called without anybody knowing and never get a call back - god I hate ozzie service at times.

In UK you just fill out a form and all your mail gets forwarded the service was brilliant when we left 5 years agos. In Oz you can certainly get mail re-direction within the country but overseas appears different. I've found out that MBE centres will do it so may have to use them instead.

Merlot

Just looking into this now - any luck? We have not to date!

Merlot

To the UK (Response 5/8)

Quoting "Calarco, Dominic" <[email protected]>:

>
> If the redirection is from a residential address the cost is $7 1 month, $18
> 3 months, $33 6 months, $66 12 months.
>
> For Business, $33 1 month, $99 3 months, $198 6 months $396 12 months.
>
> Regards
> Dominic.

captaincook

Well we were told the same and paid for 6 month re-direction.

We were then called on our mobiles after we had left Brisbane and were staying in Sydney by the post office to say that in addition to the re-direction fee you had to pre-pay postage. This involved buying a4 size pre-paid envelopes which Oz Post would place the mail inside and forward on which they are currently doing. We purchased 10 of these at a cost of $55 and Oz Post manage to fit about 4 envelopes in each one.

To make matters worse we asked in three post offices in Sydney and they all told us this was'nt correct and that re-direction overseas should be automatic but the additional postage required is payable on delivery.

This for me is just typical of why I found living in Oz so frustrating at times. I know its a big country but its so hard to get to the bottom of such trivial issues such as this. The money is not important we need the service and at present it is working but I am still waiting for tax certificates to arrive which I am sure would have been sent by now so I guess the system is far from full proof.