Hi I stumbled upon this post by Alex, while looking at Trademe help to try and find resolutions and others thoughts to my angst of Trademe charging success fees on me as an In Trade Seller. I did ask them a while back as to why they charge fees. The answer was to put my prices up and not charge shipping. Just a little bit hard to do that when the majority of your items are kept at low prices. Hopefully this might help any purchasers with answers as to why shipping is higher than what an NZ Post Track Bag has written on them. So, unfortunately myself as a seller has to allow for Trademe succ...

You can request the seller to include 'signature required' on delivery. They will probably charge you extra but shouldn't be a lot as it is only 60c for the add on.