If the post office has turned your item away, or the online postage calculator will not accept its size, the item is not a parcel in the postal sense any more: it is freight. That is what we carry every day. All Freight Carrying collects large, long and heavy items from homes and businesses across the Sunshine Coast, Gympie and Moreton Bay, and from Brisbane, and delivers them locally on our own trucks or anywhere in Australia on established national carrier networks, booked and tracked by us from Yandina. No account is needed for a one-off item.
The Australia Post parcel limits
Australia Post publishes these maximums for a parcel sent within Australia (as published on 10 November 2026; check the current limits on their site):
| Limit | Australia Post domestic parcel | With us |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 22 kg | No fixed limit: cartons, bundles, pallets and skids |
| Length | 105 cm longest side | Long lengths welcome: pipe, timber, extrusions, blinds, signage, surfboards |
| Volume | 0.25 cubic metres | No fixed limit: flat-pack furniture, mattresses, bike boxes, doors, panels |
| Pickup | Lodge at a post office or a booked pickup, size permitting | Collected from your door, home or business, by our own driver |
An item over any one of those three figures is outside the parcel service. It does not have to be heavy: a 110 cm carton that weighs 4 kg is over the length limit, and a light 70 × 60 × 60 cm carton is over the volume limit at 0.252 cubic metres.
What to do with it instead
- Measure and weigh it as it will travel. Length, width and height of the carton, bundle or pallet, including any packaging, and the weight. A bathroom scale and a tape measure are fine for a one-off.
- Tell us where it is going and what is at each end. A home or a business, whether there is a forklift, and whether someone will be there to help lift. This decides whether a van, a tailgate truck or a pallet is the right way to move it.
- Ask for a quote. Use the quote form or call 1300 882 117 during office hours. You get a price and a transit estimate, normally the same business day, with no account needed.
- Pack it and label it. See the packing notes below. Put the label on the item itself as well as any wrapping, with the receiver’s phone number.
- We collect it. Our own driver collects on the Sunshine Coast, in Gympie and Moreton Bay, and in Brisbane. Local and Brisbane deliveries are next business day on our own trucks. Interstate items are checked at Yandina and sent on established national carrier networks, booked and tracked by us through to proof of delivery.
How a large item is priced
Freight is charged on the greater of its actual weight and its cubic weight, which turns the space an item takes up into a weight at 250 kg per cubic metre for road freight. A 2 m long carton that weighs 8 kg can have a cubic weight of 40 kg or more. Very large or heavy items are often cheaper charged as a pallet space than as a single item, so tell us what it is and we will quote the cheaper way. Delivery to a home, or to a business with no forklift, is a residential or tailgate delivery, requested when you book. A fuel levy is added and shown separately. Every quote is for your item and your addresses; no prices are published.
Packing something the parcel network would not take
- Heavy cartons (25 kg and over): double-wall cardboard, filled so nothing moves, taped on every seam. Over about 30 kg, or more than one carton to the same receiver, strap the load to a pallet or skid instead.
- Long lengths: bundle and tape or strap every 50 cm, cap or pad the ends, and keep the bundle straight. Mark the length on the outside.
- Flat items (doors, panels, glass, framed pictures): on edge between sheets of cardboard or foam, corners protected, never flat on the floor of a vehicle.
- Furniture and appliances: original carton if you have it; otherwise blanket-wrap, then cardboard or stretch film, with feet and handles protected. Drain and secure appliances.
- Bikes, exercise equipment, machinery parts: remove or secure anything that protrudes, bag loose parts and tape them inside, and tell us if it is heavy on one side.
- Declare the real size and weight. Freight is measured at the depot, and an item larger or heavier than declared is re-rated at its actual size.
The full packaging guide has more, and large parcel and oversize freight covers what counts as oversize and how it is handled.
Who this is for
- Online sellers and marketplace sellers on the Coast or in Gympie with an item a buyer has paid for: furniture, a bike, a surfboard, car parts, a mower, a long box. One pickup, delivered to the buyer’s door anywhere in Australia, with tracking you can forward to them. Regular senders can have a standing pickup; see courier and freight for online stores.
- Households sending something to family interstate, returning a large item to a supplier, or moving a single piece of furniture to a new address.
- Trades and small manufacturers sending lengths, panels, signage or a heavy part to a customer or a site.
- Anyone receiving a large item from Brisbane: tell the sender to book it with us and it comes north on our overnight run and out on our own trucks the next business day.
Where it can go
Across the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, the hinterland, Gympie and the Cooloola region, and northern Moreton Bay on our own vans and trucks; to and from Brisbane every business day; and to every capital city and regional centre in Australia from the Sunshine Coast. Sydney, Newcastle and Melbourne are about 2 to 3 business days from pickup, Adelaide about 4 to 5, Perth about 5 to 6, Hobart and Darwin about 6 to 7, all estimates confirmed with your quote. Check any suburb on the transit times page or service areas.
Items we do not carry without agreement in writing first: refrigerated or temperature-controlled goods, perishables, engines with fuel or oil in them, vehicles, and anything that is dangerous goods unless it is declared before booking.
Published by All Freight Carrying, Yandina, Sunshine Coast · 10 November 2026 · Last updated 10 November 2026
