Shipping

Free shipping on orders over $300 NZD!*


Is your order time sensitive? Let us know by leaving a note in your cart!

All fabric, supplies, and sample orders placed through our Online Store, are processed and dispatched from our New Zealand warehouse which is separate to all of our physical store locations.

If you are near one of our stores in New Zealand or Australia, it may be quicker for you to place a mail order directly with the store nearest you. You'll just need to check whether the store has the stock available that you are wanting to purchase.

We aim to cut and dispatch orders within 10 working days. If you have placed an order during a promotional period, this dispatch timeframe may swell up to 14 days. Please refer to your order confirmation email during sale time for a more accurate estimate. Please note, once dispatched, the courier is responsible for delivery and all deliveries are contactless unless otherwise requested.

New Zealand — Local Shipping


Standard Shipping: $10.00
Signature Required: $12.00
Samples: FREE

Delivery Times:
Delivery times from date shipped as follows:
North Island Metro: 1-2 Working Days
South Island: 2-3 Working Days
Rural Deliveries: 3-5 Working Days

Online orders to New Zealand addresses are sent via NZ Post read their updates here. To check if NZ Post are experiencing any delivery delays check their page here.

Standard Service:
Our standard service gives NZ Post the authority to leave your order in a safe spot if you are not at home at time of delivery. We strongly advise using our Special Instructions box at cart to provide delivery instructions when possible. You can customise your delivery with NZ Post to suit your needs, choose Parcel LeaveParcel Redirect or Parcel Collect to ensure you get your order delivered first time.

NZ Post - Rural Delivery:
With access to New Zealand Post’s network, we can deliver to over 200,000 rural delivery addresses. Please note that delivering to rural addresses can add between 1-3 days to the standard targeted delivery times.

Click on your area below for standard shipping rates & timeframes:

Important Notes

Orders exceeding your countries current tax threshold will be subject to taxes and duties when being processed through customs. These taxes and duties will be calculated by your local customs agency, and will be the sole responsibility of the purchaser.

The full shipping cost to send a parcel may also be included as part of the total value of the parcel, even if you have not paid for the shipping yourself (free shipping offer). Additionally as we subsidise the shipping costs, the true cost of shipping is the value customs use, so if you require information on the full shipping cost of an order you would like to place please be in touch with us by email before you purchase and we will do our best to provide an accurate quote.  

DHL will automatically pay money owed on a shipment on behalf of the receiver to Customs and they therefore charge a fee for the money they are lending and also the cost to collect the charge from the customer. This is called an Advance Payment Surcharge.

We use DHL for all international deliveries (excluding sample purchases). If you are not at home during delivery, drivers have an ‘authority to leave’ if they can find a secure place (out of street view) in which to leave your parcel. If no secure place is found they will leave a card to call. Please also note – shipping time frame may vary depending on your local customs agency. Unfortunately this is something us at The Fabric Store or DHL has no control over.

Orders placed during a sale or promotional period may take up to 10 working days to be processed. If your order is time sensitive please email contact@thefabricstoreonline.com and we will do our best to rush it through.

*Free shipping does not apply to wholesale orders. Orders to ROW countries not stated above do not qualify for our free shipping offer.