Proposal to cut wages on Labor Day long weekend!

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Originally Posted by bob10

Word is, when Post offers up sections of the job for sale, the remote country sections will not be offered up as part of the package. No profit, private enterprise are not interested. Another interesting development, delivery to your house may become a thing of the past. Mail may be delivered to " nodes ", & you have to travel to the node to pick up mail. Internet is king. Bob

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Has already been the case in some areas for years. At my mother's place where I'm staying at the moment (outer suburb of Hobart) - there is no mail delivery to the household. You collect your mail from the local shop, which is a PO agency. Has been this way for at least 6 years that I know of.

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Originally Posted by bob10

Another interesting development, delivery to your house may become a thing of the past. Mail may be delivered to " nodes ", & you have to travel to the node to pick up mail. Internet is king. Bob

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Kinda sorta already. When we started 25 yrs ago, mail on most runs was 3-4 times weekly. Some were even Saturday.
That's been reduced to twice weekly but there is certainly a push (on remote runs) to reduce it once weekly to house with alternate being to main road intersection. On some of M&D's runs the house is 45km from the road! These nodes you speak of are theoretically going to be 'community' places eg schools, pubs, roadhouses etc and would operate like PO Boxes.
Cheers
Ralph

Perhaps the govt should be running these essential services like the mail,power supply,water and sewage,railways I suggest we name them,post master general,water board etc,;)

Been picking up our mail from the general store for 10 years now. I don't mind it at all. Know the lady quite well.

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Originally Posted by lewy

Perhaps the govt should be running these essential services like the mail,power supply,water and sewage,railways I suggest we name them,post master general,water board etc,;)

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Maybe some sort of health or education schemes too? But we all know that private enterprise will do it better and cheaper because they aren't interested in turning a huge profit, especially if it's an essential service with no competition. After all, I think that $40,000 is a reasonable fee for a procedure like a colonoscopy. As if the government could possibly match that?