Australia is the destination this hub's demand asks about in more phrasings than any other, and they all resolve to the same two questions: what is published, and what is added to it. The published part is one figure. Parcel2Go's own Australia page prices five services and the cheapest is £11.10 on DPD Lite, read on 10 September 2026. The added part is Australian GST, the size limit on the cheap services, and a delivery estimate longer than the price implies.
Why the cheap service is slow and the fast one is not cheap
The winning service on this route is a hybrid: a road leg to a consolidation point, an air leg, then an Australian domestic network. That is how eleven pounds reaches the other side of the world, and it is why the same page's own estimate for it runs to about a week. The services priced above it on the same page buy time rather than capability, and the gap between them is the price of speed on this corridor rather than any difference in what arrives.
Size decides more than weight here
Several of the cheaper international products are letter or small-parcel services with tight dimension limits and generous weight ones. A light bulky parcel to Australia routinely prices far above a heavy compact one, which is the reverse of what senders expect. Measure the packed box against the specific service's limit before assuming the headline figure is yours; Royal Mail's own domestic bands are a useful proxy for how tight those limits get.
GST, and who is asked for it
Australia charges GST on imported goods and none of it is in the carriage price. For a private sender posting a gift the recipient is usually the one asked; for a UK shop selling into Australia the treatment of low-value consignments matters a great deal and is a pricing decision to make before the listing goes live. A refused parcel on unpaid tax costs the return leg as well as the sale.
Sending the other way
Parcel2Go prices the Australia to UK direction on the same page family and the duty flips: goods arriving in the UK meet UK duty and import VAT on value plus shipping, collected by the carrier with a handling fee on top. That handling fee is the part nobody publishes in advance, and it is a fixed amount rather than a percentage, which makes it painful on a cheap parcel.
Questions people ask about sending a parcel to australia
How much does sending a parcel to Australia cost?
Parcel2Go publishes £11.10 on its own Australia page, the cheapest of five services it prices there, on DPD Lite, read on 10 September 2026. That is carriage only and GST is charged on top at the Australian border.
What is the cheapest way to send a parcel to Australia?
On published prices, the road-and-air hybrid at £11.10. Its own page estimates about a week for it, so the cheapest option here is also the slowest.
Is there a size limit on cheap parcels to Australia?
Yes, and it usually bites before the weight limit does. Several of the cheaper international products are letter or small-parcel services with tight dimensions, so a bulky light parcel prices far above a compact heavy one.
Who pays Australian GST on a parcel?
Usually the recipient, unless the sender has chosen delivered duty paid. For a shop selling into Australia the low-value consignment rules matter and should be settled before the listing goes live.