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Card class: Non-Hero • Category: Shipping & Courier

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At a glance

The 10 destination countries carrying the most of your international Australia Post volume in the trailing 30 days, ranked by parcel count. It is the demand map behind every cross-border performance number: where your parcels actually go, and therefore where a customs hold, a duty change, or a destination backlog will hurt most.

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What it tracks

The card counts international outbound consignments lodged with Australia Post over the rolling 30-day window, groups them by destination country, and shows the top 10 as a horizontal bar chart ranked by item count. The destination comes from the consignment address on the Australia Post Shipping & Tracking API article; international Standard, Express, and tracked products are all included, returns are excluded. Read it as the weighting layer for the rest of the international set. A clearance miss or a tracking gap matters in proportion to how much volume a destination carries: a 70 percent customs clearance rate on your number-one destination is an operational fire, the same rate on a long-tail country is a footnote. When this ranking shifts (a new market taking off, a promotion landing in one country), expect the destination-level performance cards to move with it. Pair it with International Customs Clearance Rate (<5d) to weight clearance risk, Shipments by Destination for the full geographic spread, and Avg Transit (days) for door-to-door time per lane.

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Reconciling against the source

Cross-check the ranking against your international consignment export in MyPost Business or the Australia Post Merchant Portal (group by destination country, last 30 days, outbound only). Small differences are usually period-boundary or timezone effects: Australia Post scan timestamps are in carrier-local time (AEST / AEDT) and ingestion can lag by minutes to a few hours.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

International Destinations, Top 10 is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Australia Post and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.