Comparing a Sydney lane with a Kimberley lane on the same chart is not a comparison. On this carrier, distance is the variable that explains almost everything.
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ScrapeIt builds and runs the pipeline as a managed service. You tell us the lanes and services; we build the collection, classify destinations by remoteness, normalise statuses across every carrier you use, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Collection stays on the public tracking, rate and location pages and is paced deliberately, with proxy rotation and rendering handled as part of the service.
We collect no recipient names and no address detail beyond the postcode, which is what lane and regional analysis actually needs. We collect only publicly available data - tracking events, postage rates and outlet records, everything a visitor can see on Australia Post - and we collect it legally.
Tracking output carries the tracking number, the raw status text as published, the normalised status, the event timestamp with time zone, the event location and the facility identifier where given.
Time zones need naming rather than assuming. The country spans several, some observing daylight saving and some not, which means a naive timestamp produces delivery duration analyses that are wrong by hours for a large share of shipments and wrong inconsistently across the year. We store the zone explicitly and compute durations in UTC.
Shipment fields cover origin and destination postcode, the destination classified as metropolitan, regional or remote, service level, expected delivery window where published, actual delivery, attempt count, delivery outcome including collection point holds, and the exception reason.
Rate records carry service level, origin and destination zone, weight band, dimensional limits, base price, surcharges where published and the effective date of the price table.
Location records carry the outlet or locker name, type, address, postcode, coordinates where published, opening hours structured by day and the services offered.
The outlet and locker estate is a slower dataset with a real refresh need: hours change, sites open and close, and a checkout locator showing a closed post office is worse than showing none. Monthly collection with change records keeps it honest, and change records mean a client sees what moved rather than reloading everything.
Seasonality is pronounced here and worth modelling separately. Volume and transit times move sharply around the end of year peak, and a year on year comparison that ignores the peak window reports noise as trend.
Multi carrier comparison is where most clients end up, and this carrier is usually the baseline because of its reach. The comparison only means anything with remoteness segmentation and consistent outcome classification, both of which have to be designed before the second carrier is added rather than after.
Rate history is retained rather than overwritten, because a procurement review always asks what a shipping profile would have cost under the previous table.
Australia Post is the national postal operator and, across most of the continent, the only carrier that reaches the address at all. Private networks concentrate on the eastern seaboard cities; everything else falls to the post. Any Australian ecommerce analysis that treats carriers as interchangeable is wrong about most of the map.
Geography dominates the data more than on any other carrier we work with. Transit expectations, surcharges and delivery outcomes vary enormously between metropolitan, regional and remote destinations, and a national average across those is a number that describes nowhere.
Tracking, rate lookup and location search are available through the public site, and everything they show can be collected: tracking events with their status text, rate tables by service, zone and weight band, and outlet and locker records with hours and services.
Alongside delivery to the door the operator runs a large estate of post offices, parcel lockers and collection points, which is what powers pickup options in Australian checkouts and is its own dataset with its own refresh cadence.
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Full plan detailsThe default carrier performance report compares average transit times and declares a winner. On this carrier that report is meaningless, because the average is dominated by where the parcels were going rather than by how well anyone performed.
A metropolitan lane and a remote lane differ by days, not hours, and they differ for reasons nobody can fix. Comparing the national operator against a private network without segmenting by remoteness makes the operator look slow when it is simply serving addresses the other one does not attempt.
So the classification is not a nice-to-have field, it is the precondition for the analysis being honest. We classify every destination and report performance within each band, which is the only version a logistics team can act on.
The second issue is the delivery outcome. A large share of Australian parcels complete at a collection point rather than at the door, and that is a legitimate completion rather than a failure. Tooling that treats anything other than a doorstep handover as an exception generates false alarms at national scale.
The third is rates, which are zone based across enormous distances with surcharges layered on. The published price is a calculation rather than a lookup, and reproducing it needs the full table with its effective date.
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Because without it the performance report is meaningless. Metropolitan and remote lanes differ by days for reasons nobody can fix, so a national average describes where the parcels went rather than how anyone performed. Comparing the national operator with a private network without segmenting makes it look slow when it is serving addresses the other one does not attempt.
Not by us. A large share of Australian parcels complete at a post office or locker, and that is a legitimate completion. We classify the outcome rather than flagging it, because tooling that treats anything other than a doorstep handover as an exception generates false alarms at national scale.
Yes, and inconsistently, which is worse. The country spans several zones and some observe daylight saving while others do not, so a naive timestamp produces delivery durations that are wrong by hours for many shipments and wrong differently across the year. We store the zone explicitly and compute in UTC.
Yes, with addresses, coordinates, opening hours structured by day and services offered. It changes slowly but it does change, and a checkout locator showing a closed outlet is worse than showing none, so we refresh monthly with change records.
Yes. The ScrapeIt Australia Post API returns tracking events with normalised status, delivery outcome, the remoteness band of the destination, postage rates by zone and weight band, and outlet and locker opening hours as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. What we add is everything after retrieval: remoteness classification, cross carrier normalisation and silence detection. The same data also comes as CSV or XLSX files or straight into your database.
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Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
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