Hey Rod

Here is the Error message I get, I re-read your post regarding just allowing the satchel options so once again I disabled EVERYTHING except the Satchels (Reg and Express) go to checkout shipping estimator and gett the following error message:

ERROR:Unable to obtain a valid quote from the Australia Post Server.
You may still checkout using this method and we will contact you with postage costs as soon as possible.

Go back to the Shipping module options enable Regular Parcels click apply go to check out click estimate shipping and it estimates the cost of shipping (farther away the post code the more expensive). So what I have found out is that Regular Parcel MUST be enabled to get any type of shipping estimate for the customer...

I will continue to experiment but so far everything I have tried does not work mate

thanks for your patience