Australia Post - letter pricing 2024

On 12 November 2024, Australia Post provided the ACCC with a public draft price notification proposing to increase the price of reserved ordinary letters delivered at the regular timetable by 13% from mid-2025. This includes an increase of the basic postage rate for reserved ordinary small letters from $1.50 to $1.70.

Australia Post is also proposing to increase the prices of a range of its other reserved letter services, including the price of priority labels by 30 cents, from $0.70 to $1.00. Combined with the proposed regular stamp price increase, priority ordinary small letters are proposed to increase by 50 cents, from $2.20 to $2.70.

Australia Post is not proposing to increase the price of concession stamps ($3.00 for 5) or seasonal greeting card stamps (65 cents each).

In its draft price notification, Australia Post included an indicative price path for future years, encompassing additional proposed increases to the basic postage rate of 15 cents in both mid-2026 and mid-2027. These future indicative price increases have been included to provide context regarding Australia Post’s forecast cost and revenue data, but will not be assessed in the ACCC’s current price notification process.

After submitting its draft price notification in November 2024, Australia Post provided the ACCC with additional documents in support of its draft price notification. Where a public version of a supporting document is made available, the ACCC will publish the document on this page.

In January 2025, Australia Post provided the ACCC with a confidential version of an expenditure review conducted by Frontier Economics, which assessed the efficiency of Australia Post’s costs at an enterprise level. Australia Post provided a redacted public version of the Frontier Economics report for publication in February 2025.