Postage is a KILLER for small businesses. unfortunately, expect a postage cost rise in October :(
Our Courier has announced that they are raising the postage prices again by 5.1% across their services (they usually do so every 12 months) NZpost did this recently and as our courier contracts NZpost for many of their services, they have followed suit.
Over the next few weeks, we will review our postage rates and see what we can do for our customers. We will do our best to implement free postage above a certain spend level etc, but unfortunately, as a very small business we cannot absorb all of the price increases that occur.
We already offer flat rate shipping, mainly because people could not be honest with clicking the rural shipping option and because due to the age of many of our customers, some do not even realise that they are classed as rural. we may need to look at separating them again depending on how much these increases affect our customers. We hate having to increase postage prices, and the postage money certainly doesn’t end up in our pockets. If anything we lose out when it comes to postage.
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