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    I would recommend Shopmate as an absolute last resort
    All they did was measure the parcel (cubic volume/not repacked) which arrived at the shipping center, slapped an AustPost label on it, then sent me an invoice
    You're much better of using some of the others mentioned above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnertwin View Post
    I would recommend Shopmate as an absolute last resort
    Thanks for being our guinea pig.

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    Happy to take one in the arm for the team

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnertwin View Post
    I would recommend Shopmate as an absolute last resort
    All they did was measure the parcel (cubic volume/not repacked) which arrived at the shipping center, slapped an AustPost label on it, then sent me an invoice
    You're much better of using some of the others mentioned above.
    Sounds like they are a budget service at a premium price, was actually going to do a test run with them to see if they'd be any cheaper but by the sounds of it they wouldn't, nor do they offer parcel consolidation or package minimizing so yeah it seems like they would be the last option

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    Quote Originally Posted by philby View Post
    There is an Australia Post service called ShopMate, but it's something like a $25 flat fee then add on whatever they charge per 500gm or something. It might not even save much money depending on what you are getting. I haven't used any so far.
    I used ShopMate back around Christmas 2014 with a 25% off coupon to ship over a FunPub order of a 2 x Chromdomes and 1 x Rewind. The shipping carton tightly enclosed three of those smaller, FunPub FSS deluxe shipping cartons.

    The cost was A$54.71 - 25% ($13.68) = $41.03.

    It was BARELY cheaper than the horrific direct prices from FunPub. I've never used them again, and if I did, there's no way I'd do it without at least a similar coupon.

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