Thursday, 29 May 2014

The mail to your door (3)

Well, the price of stamps has gone up to 70¢, but it seems that the issue of  the frequency of mail deliveries is still bubbling away.   Some ideas were floated earlier in the year, and it seems that the issue hasn't gone away, although it doesn't seem to have made it to the "Australian Post Monitor" site. However, 3 deliveries per week seems to be occurring after 2015 in New Zealand.

In relation to less frequent deliveries,  The Age reported Australia Post chairman, John Stanhope, as saying, "If you want it fast, you pay for it"  (see also the Skynews report).    I'm not sure how this would work.  It's one thing to pay up-front for express delivery, but the tenor of the comment seems to suggest that the recipient can opt to receive daily mail deliveries.   How would this operate in the sorting/delivery process?   Will the postman still come down the street but miss the houses that haven't paid up?    Would this really result in any savings?

In the meantime, Australia Post is getting on the front foot with their post boxes.  No longer do they state expected delivery times, only the daily clearance time.

However, privatisation is said to be off the agenda - for now.

'If you want it fast, you pay for it .. if you want it more frequent you pay more, if you want it express you pay more,' Australia Post chairman John Stanhope told Fairfax media - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2014/05/07/city-postal-deliveries-could-be-cut.html#sthash.8aeHDMWF.dpuf
'If you want it fast, you pay for it .. if you want it more frequent you pay more, if you want it express you pay more,' Australia Post chairman John Stanhope told Fairfax media - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2014/05/07/city-postal-deliveries-could-be-cut.html#sthash.8aeHDMWF.dpuf
'If you want it fast, you pay for it .. if you want it more frequent you pay more, if you want it express you pay more,' Australia Post chairman John Stanhope told Fairfax media - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2014/05/07/city-postal-deliveries-could-be-cut.html#sthash.8aeHDMWF.dpuf

1 comment:

  1. Letters are passé, and main users are advertisers and donation requests. Personal correspondence and bills come electronically. The post is for magazine subscriptions and official documents. Our postie drives a moped down the footpath and shoves mail halfway through the gate-letter box of each house inviting retrieval by any passing scavenger (a frequent occurrence), but this may just be a local phenomenon. (The North Fitzroy post office is so disgraceful that it has 3 websites dedicated to it- try google North Fitzroy PO complaints.) The world have given up on home delivery of telegrams and parcels, along with bread and milk. Newspaper deliveries survive as token assistance to the endangered species of press magnates. If it would help the national deficit I would contribute to the end of the age of entitlement by exchanging post home delivery for an automated dial-up service (“You have mail/no mail at the post agency”)

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