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'Complicated': Online shoppers seeing higher delivery fees, returns costs

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 2 Jul 2026, 6:18pm
 (Photo / Getty Images)
(Photo / Getty Images)

Finding a deal online is getting harder and harder, according to new reports.

Delivery software firm Shippit has found standard New Zealand delivery fees have risen 30 cents this year, to an average of $10.

Express delivery's gone up $3 to average $17.40

Retail NZ CEO Carolyn Young says it's down to global factors. 

"When the Middle East crisis started, we know that freight companies increase their prices immediately." 

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