Thread: Australia Post

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

..................... Their overall profit is up thanks to online shopping deliveries.[/QUOTE]

I assume that's from Australian suppliers.

Just repeating what I heard on the news yesterday.

I am a postie & find it all quite funny (as do my peers). They make it out like we have nothing to do, yet this last year we have done more overtime than ever before. Parcels is a very profitable part of AP & posties are now delivering more than ever.

Yeah I read that parcels are rapidly replacing mail as AP's core business.
At our local shopping centre AP has just installed a parcel collection unit which is automated. I haven't used it yet but apparently you get sent a code, go to the box and enter the code, it opens and collect your parcel. So much for home delivery.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah I read that parcels are rapidly replacing mail as AP's core business.
At our local shopping centre AP has just installed a parcel collection unit which is automated. I haven't used it yet but apparently you get sent a code, go to the box and enter the code, it opens and collect your parcel. So much for home delivery.

I for one look forward to lots more of this. I order stuff online for home delivery, but I'm not home during the day. It gets delivered a few blocks from my house and I go pick it up at a time convenient to me. IMO this is perfect for online home deliveries. If there was an option to select this from the start when I purchased, I would select it everytime, saving AusPost the effort of going to my house to see if I'm home. They could just SMS/email me once it is at my local collection point. I've been waiting for this for AGES, I don't know why it's not happening faster. It seems like a solution that saves on AusPost resource cost, I would be able to pick-up within 24 hours instead of waiting for a weekend or longer, so they would save on space but charge the same. What's not to like?!?!?

P.S. Not good for the postie's job perhaps. Sorry.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

AP have started to survey customers asking if they would prefer a five day service (as we have now) for an annual cost of $30 or accept a three day a week service.

Is there a third option in the survey = like leave the system as it is.

Also if they are not delivering do they drop the requirements for stamps?

Garry

I recall hearing (Just before Xmas ?) that Canada had stopped mail delivery to homes. Is Canadian mail private ?

I know I just received a package from the UK dispatched on the 14th, delivered to my office on the 17th (lost by our admin staff for 5 days - but that's another story )


Martyn

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

I therefore have to pay a yearly fee to have a post office box - not because I want to but because I have no choice. I think that it's about $75 a year for a "small" post office box.


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If you have a PO box then your mail addressed to your residential address is supposed to be diverted to your PO box during local sorting. The rise of "delivery centres" and the demise of mail rooms at local PO's, indeed the closure of local PO's, may have done away with this requirement.

For those of you who are interested DSS/Centrelink once had a ban on the use of postal addresses except where there was not a delivery. This was because of the close link between postal addresses and fraud.

The parcel business is booming. My local PO is often so overrun with parcels unable to be delivered by the contractor as no-one is home, that they go on bypass and the parcels go back to the delivery centre. you then have to go out of your way to the centre in an industrial area two suburbs away to pick up your parcel.

Originally Posted by Judo

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah I read that parcels are rapidly replacing mail as AP's core business.
At our local shopping centre AP has just installed a parcel collection unit which is automated. I haven't used it yet but apparently you get sent a code, go to the box and enter the code, it opens and collect your parcel. So much for home delivery.

I for one look forward to lots more of this. I order stuff online for home delivery, but I'm not home during the day. It gets delivered a few blocks from my house and I go pick it up at a time convenient to me. IMO this is perfect for online home deliveries. If there was an option to select this from the start when I purchased, I would select it everytime, saving AusPost the effort of going to my house to see if I'm home. They could just SMS/email me once it is at my local collection point. I've been waiting for this for AGES, I don't know why it's not happening faster. It seems like a solution that saves on AusPost resource cost, I would be able to pick-up within 24 hours instead of waiting for a weekend or longer, so they would save on space but charge the same. What's not to like?!?!?

P.S. Not good for the postie's job perhaps. Sorry.

I work in the CBD and have been using Parcel Post for a few years. It's super convenient as it's only 100m from work.

It's been fantastic up until recently when the sender used a courier.

And that would have been fine if they used the 'right' courier.

Seems Aussie Post only accepts deliveries from one courier and they refuse deliveries from all others.