Only one company in this record publishes a number you can read before you enter a weight. Parcel2Go's Australia page prices five named services and the cheapest of them on the day it was read was 11.10 pounds. Royal Mail publishes no per-destination international page at all, only zones, and Parcelforce publishes an Australia directory page carrying service and customs detail with no price on it. That is the whole published picture, and it explains why every other answer to this question arrives as a quote rather than a rate.
The one published figure, and exactly what it covers
Parcel2Go's Australia page priced five named carrier services on the day it was read, and the cheapest was 11.10 pounds for the parcel the page quotes by default. That last clause matters more than the number. It is a default parcel, not your parcel, so the figure tells you where the market starts rather than what you will pay. Change the weight or any dimension and the page reprices. Treat 11.10 pounds as the floor of the published range for Australia and expect your own quote to sit above it once real measurements go in.
Why Royal Mail and Parcelforce give you no number here
Royal Mail prints the fullest published grid of any company in this record, 24 rows of service by size with branch and online prices and the weight and dimension limits for each, but that grid is for sending inside the UK. For international it publishes zones rather than a per-country price, so there is no Australia row to read. Parcelforce does publish a directory page for Australia, which is why it counts as coverage in this record, but those pages carry service descriptions and customs guidance and no price at all. Neither company is being evasive; they simply do not sell Australia off a published table.
What moves the number once you enter real measurements
Three things, in roughly this order. Volumetric weight comes first: long-haul services price on the greater of actual weight and what the box's volume implies, so a light bulky parcel is charged as a heavy one. Then the service tier, because the gap between the cheapest and dearest of the five services Parcel2Go prices for Australia is wider than the gap between most destinations. Then customs, which is not in any headline price: Australia charges duty and GST on imports above its own threshold, and the carrier's handling fee for clearing them is separate again.
A sense of scale against other destinations
Read against the same page family on the same day, Australia at 11.10 pounds sits close to New Zealand at 11.30 pounds and just under the USA at 11.59 pounds, and well above Germany at 7.79 pounds or the Netherlands at 7.99 pounds. The pattern is not really distance, it is service density: the European figures are Evri Europe services with high volume, while Australia and the USA are priced off different carriers entirely. Domestically the same company's headline is 2.39 pounds, so an Australian parcel is roughly four to five times a domestic one at the published floor.
Questions people ask about how much does it cost to ship to australia
How much does it cost to ship to Australia from the UK?
The only published figure in this record is Parcel2Go's, at 11.10 pounds, the cheapest of the five services its Australia page priced on 10 September 2026 for the parcel that page quotes by default. Your own price depends on weight and dimensions and will normally sit above it.
Why can I not find a Royal Mail price for Australia?
Royal Mail publishes a per-zone structure for international post rather than a per-country page. Its detailed published grid, 24 rows of service by size, covers sending inside the UK only.
Is the 11.10 pounds figure the total I will pay?
No. It excludes Australian duty and GST on imports above the local threshold and any carrier handling fee for clearing them. It also applies to the default parcel the page quotes, not to yours.
Does the parcel's size change the price as much as its weight?
Often more. Long-haul services charge on the greater of actual and volumetric weight, so trimming a box's largest dimension can move the quote further than removing a kilogram.