
Personal
- From $28.1
- For letters and parcels addressed to your home.
Mail hold
With our mail hold service, you can securely pause your letter and parcel deliveries while you're away.
Mail hold service
Mail hold ensures your letters and parcels are securely stored by Australia Post. When your service ends, your mail is delivered as addressed on the next business day or as soon as possible.
Choose from 3 mail hold options
Are you a business customer?
Apply for a period of 1 week to 12 months online or at your local Post Office.
You will need to provide proof of identity when you apply.
Applicant | First week | Additional weeks |
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Personal | First week $28 |
Additional weeks $6.50 |
If you have a valid concession card, or you’re listed as a dependant on someone else’s card, you may be eligible for a reduced rate.2
You must apply in-person at the Post Office and provide proof of identity and your concession card.
Applicant | First week | Additional weeks |
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Concession | First week $16.80 |
Additional weeks $3.90 |
If you operate a home business, trust or Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) from home, you may be eligible for a reduced fee on your mail hold service.
Apply at a Post Office with photo ID showing your residential mailing address and:
Applicant | Flat monthly fee |
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Home office | Flat monthly fee $72 |
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You can complete an application to redirect or hold mail on behalf of other people, such as elderly or sick relatives who cannot apply themselves. Such applications need to be lodged in-store at a Post Office along with proof that you have the right to act on behalf of that person.
To apply, simply download and complete an application to redirect mail form, or pick up a mail redirection form from your nearest outlet.
Due to security requirements, you cannot apply online to have mail redirected or held on behalf of others unless you are also listed on the application.
Yes. To redirect mail from both a street address and a Post Office Box, you must lodge a separate application for each.
We may not be able to process your Mail Hold service application if mail to be held is difficult to separate from other mail going to the same address. This may be the case for addresses such as large businesses, caravan parks, hotels and nursing homes.
If mail is addressed to more than one person, and only one of the addressees has applied for a Mail Redirection service, the mail will be delivered as addressed (that is, it will not be redirected).
If an article is addressed to more than one person, and the addressees have both applied for redirections but to different addresses, the article will be treated as "left address" and returned to sender.
Read the mail redirection and mail hold terms and conditions and how we're protecting your privacy.
1 Price is for 1 week at the relevant rate.
2 If the application form is for multiple persons at the same address, a valid concession card must be produced for each individual to gain a concession for the service.
3 Price is per month at the relevant rate.
4 Apply for Home office at the Post Office.
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