Help me send gifts to Australia

[chocolateoreo]

A family member has recently moved to Perth, WA and I have been considering Christmas gifts. Is it better to send and pay delivery (I am not intentionally being dense but I have no idea what the costs / complexity surrounding this would be) or should I look at buying from an Australian company (e.g. a food hamper) to be delivered?

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Honestly, just order a delivery from an Aussie shop.

Yes, it will be a lot cheaper to order from an Australian shop.

https://shop.maggiebeer.com.au/category/maggie-beer-products/ has lovely products.

Order from Aussie shop
My mum tries to send things to me (in Sydney) and totally underestimates time and cost

Order from an Australian shop. So much easier with taxes.

You could buy something in the uk and post it , usually takes 6/7 days but postage can be very expensive . Marks and Spencer deliver to Australia. Maybe AustraliaAmazon . You will find it’s generally expensive and some restrictions on what you can send to Oz too.

Yeah my friends always buy from Oz shops and I buy from uk shops the other way round - way easier. Usually pay on PayPal 😊

I find it quite difficult finding good shops to order from in Australia. The last toy shop I ordered from didn’t deliver the gift at all. I’ve also had huge delays by ordering from Australian shops. It is cheaper to do it that way though. It is very expensive to post from the UK, although family do appreciate things from the UK they can’t get in Australia.
I’m going to look at M&S again based on previous poster advice but I thought they had stopped doing that.
If you find a good way to do it please update post.

I usually buy from Australian stores but still send a Christmas chocolate selection over. I do send that in November though as it can take an age to get there.

We order from aussie shops and aussie amazon.
We always post chocolate as ours taste better apparently. Cheaper to send 2 small packages rather than one big one.

Reported.

I came a cropper trying to send a Christmas hamper from the UK to Sydney when DD was there on a working holiday visa. I hadn't considered the postage costs, or customs issues. In the end I ordered everything I could from Australian companies or international companies that shipped there. Trying to buy and send goods myself was a total hassle and ridiculously expensive.

I got caught out sending a bracelet from the UK, it was refused at the Post Office and then since then l've ordered online from Australian shops.

Thank you all 😊 It has been very helpful reading your recommendations and I have found some local shops that look lovely. I think this does seem the best option given postage costs and potential custom issues. Interesting to find out that Marks and Spencer and John Lewis deliver to Australia though!

Amazon Australia us the way to go.

I have used this to send to my sister in Oz (they ship from Sydney)

Gifts Australia

Also Moonpig australia for cards (they have a few gifts too)

Don’t just order a hamper from anywhere unless it’s non perishable or they confirm to you that they use refrigerated transport ALL the way. We are 3 days drive from the next place and five days from Sydney. And Christmas is in summer.

Please see these local suggestions.

https://simonjohnson.com/product-category/hampers-gifts/

https://www.providore.com.au/

https://the-re-store.com.au/

https://www.hampersbydesign.com.au/

https://www.google.com/search?q=goirmet+hampers+perth&rlz=1C9BKJA_enAU811AU811&oq=goirmet+hampers+perth&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQABgNGIAEMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjIICAYQABgWGB4yCAgHEAAYFhgeMggICBAAGBYYHjIICAkQABgWGB7SAQg1OTc1ajBqNKgCArACAQ&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

www.davidjones.com/home-and-food/food-and-wine/hampers

https://www.hardtofind.com.au Is similar to not on the high street

I buy from Australian companies and never had any problems with the payment side of things. The sites do tend to ask for an Australian mobile number though so I had to input the number of the person I was buying for so they might get a tip-off about delivery or something. Also, it's not always apparent to the person who gets the gift who it was who sent it so you might need to message separately to let them know it's from you.

I have generally found that there's not as much choice as in our UK shops (which might just be because of my search terms) but I couldn't bear the thought of buying something in the UK that had probably been made in China and then sending it all the way back again (and then some!).