{"id":407345,"date":"2026-01-12T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407345\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:53:09","slug":"parcel-start-up-sendle-suddenly-ceases-operations-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407345\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcel start-up Sendle suddenly ceases operations after 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufeffustralian parcel and courier service Sendle has suddenly ceased operations, leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"small businesses\">small businesses<\/a> in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>Sendle, founded in 2014, \ufeffsent an email to customers informing them that the service will be halting all bookings &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; from yesterday, January 11.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have any existing or scheduled bookings with us: Any parcels that have already been picked up and are in transit will be delivered at the discretion of the delivery partner,&#8221; the message reads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ca353d47-d7b6-44c1-a630-b8135741f8e7.png\"   alt=\"Sendle shuts down\"\/>Sendle, founded in 2014, \ufeffsent an email to customers informing them that the service will be halting all bookings. (Sendle)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any existing bookings scheduled for pickup on 12 January or later will be cancelled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sendle also apologised to users for the inconvenience\ufeff but did not give a reason for the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The parcel service said it has shipped more than 65 million parcels across three countries since it began operations.<\/p>\n<p>It was primarily used by small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Small business owner Alicia Segal, \ufeffthe co-founder of Australian breast pump business Bubka, said she had been blindsided by the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8ddb7926-3cc8-4cea-8ed9-0fd456ce0349.jpeg\"   alt=\"Sendle shuts down operations\"\/>Sendle also apologised to users for the inconvenience\ufeff but did not give a reason for the shutdown. (Supplied)&#8221;We usually alternate between Sendle and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/australia-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\" Australia Post\">Australia Post<\/a>. With the ongoing frustrations around Australia Post, we were in the process of moving all our postage to Sendle &#8211; so this update has left us feeling high and dry,&#8221; Segal told nine.com.au.<\/p>\n<p>Segal said Sendle was &#8220;generally much cheaper&#8221; than using Australia Post for all parcel deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffOn its website, Sendle bills itself as less expensive than parcel post and express post.<\/p>\n<p>A Sendle three-kilogram parcel is priced at $13.20.<\/p>\n<p>The same weighted parcel costs $19.30 to ship with Australia Post.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffSendle raised $45 million during a funding round in 2021 to help it expand to the US.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sendle told nine.com.au it is no longer taking future bookings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not able to provide any further comment at this time,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeffustralian parcel and courier service Sendle has suddenly ceased operations, leaving small businesses in limbo. Sendle, founded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-407345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}