CourierPost overnight delivery
For overnight delivery of your business parcels by courier to any residential or business street address, New Zealand Post PO Box or Private Bag within New Zealand (between major towns and cities).
CourierPost has an overnight delivery target across town and between major towns and cities. For rural deliveries please allow two to three working days.
- Sending by CourierPost
- Parcel weight and tickets
- Print labels online and manage orders
- Dangerous, valuable and prohibited items
- Delivery Standards
- Terms and conditions
Sending by CourierPost
To send your parcel by CourierPost, you need to have one of the following:
- TrackPak – Non Signature Required Bag
- TrackPak – Signature Required Bag
Ticket options (to apply to your own pre-packaged item):
- Non-Signature Ticket (s)
- Signature Required Ticket (s)
You can book a courier collection online or by phone. If you’re a CourierPost Business Account customer you should attach the appropriate tickets to your item and contact us to have your item picked up. The cost will be charged to your account.
Parcel weight and tickets
With the added security of tracking and a signature on delivery option, the charges for sending by CourierPost depends on the size and weight of your parcel and its destination with the option of signature required upon delivery.
Each base ticket has a maximum weight limit. If your parcel exceeds the weight on your base ticket, you need to add excess tickets to cover the extra weight.
For more information on the tickets available and the weight restrictions see our 2 step guide to ticketing (PDF 956KB).
To find out the required number of tickets to send your parcel with CourierPost, calculate your rate online.
Print labels online and manage orders
eShip is a NZ Post cloud-based internet application that simplifies and automates the process of delivering your customer orders.
Use eShip to produce CourierPost labels and connect with many popular ecommerce platforms, making order processing easier to manage. Find out more about eShip and how to sign up.
Dangerous, valuable and prohibited items
Make sure your parcel is safe to send with CourierPost.
- Dangerous, valuable and prohibited items (PDF, 101KB)
Delivery Standards
Nationwide Delivery (Non-Rural): Next working day
Rural Delivery: 2 - 3 working days
| Delivery details | Delivery targets |
|---|---|
| Business addresses (within CBD or suburban retail/business area) | By 9am the next working day |
| Residential addresses | The next working day |
| Rural Delivery addresses | 2 - 3 working days |
| Saturday delivery | By 12 noon |
| Island to Island economy | 2 - 3 working days |
Notes:
Delivery targets are guides only. We do not guarantee that your item will reach its destination with the delivery target.
Prices include GST and are subject to change without notice.