Australia Post · Rate Limits

Australia Post Rate Limits

Limits are applied per credential. The Developer Portal states windows can be per second, minute, hour or day but publishes a number for only one endpoint (Shipping and Tracking Track Items).

Australia Post Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Australia Post on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-10-21.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, including Per-credential limit (all Developer Portal APIs) — Rate limits can be set on requests per second, minute, hour or day.; Rate limit breach (all Developer Portal APIs) — If you breach an API’s rate limits, all subsequent requests you make within the time period that applies return a 429 Too many requests error..

Limit state is signalled in the X-RateLimit-Limit-second, X-RateLimit-Remaining-second, X-RateLimit-Limit-minute, and X-RateLimit-Remaining-minute response headers.

Tagged areas include Address Validation, Click and Collect, Delivery, E-Commerce, and Labels.

2 Limits X-RateLimit-Limit-secondX-RateLimit-Remaining-secondX-RateLimit-Limit-minuteX-RateLimit-Remaining-minute
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-10-21 — auspost.com.au/developers/help-support/about-our-apis/.
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Address ValidationClick and CollectDeliveryE-CommerceLabelsLocationLogisticsParcel LockerPostalPostageShippingTrackingAustralia

Limits

Per-credential limit (all Developer Portal APIs) per-credential
Rate limits can be set on requests per second, minute, hour or day.
No numeric value published; read the X-RateLimit-* headers.
Rate limit breach (all Developer Portal APIs) per-credential
If you breach an API's rate limits, all subsequent requests you make within the time period that applies return a 429 Too many requests error.

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