Aus Post Retard Management invents even stupider ways to piss off people
I wrote up a shit load on this subject of the Australia Post "Digital Mail Box", about how the idea probably would have been a GOOD idea - in the simplest sense, as an email server system, but that would have had to happen a LONG time ago, when there was Microsoft with all of it's drug fucked american corporate bullshit, and all the other email services were really crap as well but in lots of bad ways....
However Google and co., have essentially sorted the technical needs of email out and so the Aus Post Digital Mail Box, is more like a dessicated corpse laying in the desert sun...
Then tack on all the really mind fuck stupid BULLSHIT - that comes with the service it's self....
Then you get just how BADLY Australia Post is run...
And then, the DICK HEADS running Australia Post are NOW into really fucking manipulative techniques, to make people sign up to using it...
Scummy con-job inducements....
And quite rightfully, the now "leaving Australia Post in droves" type customers, are NOT happy about any of it.
The comments section is quite insightful......
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/australia-post-spruiks-mypost-digital-mailbox-as-it-pushes-for-1-postage-20150831-gjbhut.html
Buy anything at the post office and they'll ask for your email address as Australia Post struggles to make the shift to digital.
There's a disturbing trend among retailers to ask for more personal information than they really need when you're buying something over the counter, hoping to grab your phone number and email address to add to their marketing database.
Even Australia Post is in on the act, seemingly asking every customer for their email address even if you've just popped in to buy a few stamps.
If you politely ask why the post office needs your email address for such a simple transaction, you're cheerfully told it's just so they can email you a receipt for the purchase – even though they'll also hand you a paper receipt over the counter.
If you politely tell them to piss off – due to privacy considerations or simply the fact that you don't want to end up on yet another marketing list – they'll still sell you your stamps.
Hand over your email address and you're not actually sent a receipt. Instead you're invited to register for Australia Post's MyPost Digital Mailbox service – the post office's attempt to stay relevant in the digital age.
You can receive your bills electronically and store documents online, plus Australia Post plans to offer parcel tracking via MyPost Digital Mailbox.
According to the Subject line "Your Australia Post receipt has arrived", but it's not attached to the email. Instead you're told;
The receipt for this transaction is now securely stored in a MyPost Digital Mailbox with your name on it. Pretty nifty, eh?
We can securely store this receipt for 30 days, but if you want to store it for longer you'll need to activate your MyPost Digital Mailbox.
MyPost Digital Mailbox has been around for a few years, but now Australia Post has started pushing it over the counter to every customer. It's not surprising considering the service is struggling to make headway against competing online services like BPAY View.
Australia Post would seem to be cutting its own throat by encouraging people not to receive bills via the post, but the fact is that people are abandoning the post anyway.
Rather than receiving their bills via snail mail they opt to receive them directly via email or via an online portal like BPAY View.
Australia Post survived a digital challenge from Digital Post Australia but others will come, so the post office would rather you use its digital service than someone else's.
For people who would rather send and receive correspondence the old-fashioned way, Australia Post is pushing to bump up the price of sending a letter from 70 cents to $1. Last week it asked the consumer watchdog to approve the 30 cent price increase for standard letters – yet offer slower delivery times as of next year.
How do you receive your bills in the digital age? Is it time to sign up for a MyPost Digital Mailbox
However Google and co., have essentially sorted the technical needs of email out and so the Aus Post Digital Mail Box, is more like a dessicated corpse laying in the desert sun...
Then tack on all the really mind fuck stupid BULLSHIT - that comes with the service it's self....
Then you get just how BADLY Australia Post is run...
And then, the DICK HEADS running Australia Post are NOW into really fucking manipulative techniques, to make people sign up to using it...
Scummy con-job inducements....
And quite rightfully, the now "leaving Australia Post in droves" type customers, are NOT happy about any of it.
The comments section is quite insightful......
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/australia-post-spruiks-mypost-digital-mailbox-as-it-pushes-for-1-postage-20150831-gjbhut.html
Australia Post spruiks MyPost Digital Mailbox as it pushes for $1 postage
August 31, 2015Buy anything at the post office and they'll ask for your email address as Australia Post struggles to make the shift to digital.
There's a disturbing trend among retailers to ask for more personal information than they really need when you're buying something over the counter, hoping to grab your phone number and email address to add to their marketing database.
Even Australia Post is in on the act, seemingly asking every customer for their email address even if you've just popped in to buy a few stamps.
If you politely ask why the post office needs your email address for such a simple transaction, you're cheerfully told it's just so they can email you a receipt for the purchase – even though they'll also hand you a paper receipt over the counter.
If you politely tell them to piss off – due to privacy considerations or simply the fact that you don't want to end up on yet another marketing list – they'll still sell you your stamps.
Hand over your email address and you're not actually sent a receipt. Instead you're invited to register for Australia Post's MyPost Digital Mailbox service – the post office's attempt to stay relevant in the digital age.
You can receive your bills electronically and store documents online, plus Australia Post plans to offer parcel tracking via MyPost Digital Mailbox.
According to the Subject line "Your Australia Post receipt has arrived", but it's not attached to the email. Instead you're told;
The receipt for this transaction is now securely stored in a MyPost Digital Mailbox with your name on it. Pretty nifty, eh?
We can securely store this receipt for 30 days, but if you want to store it for longer you'll need to activate your MyPost Digital Mailbox.
MyPost Digital Mailbox has been around for a few years, but now Australia Post has started pushing it over the counter to every customer. It's not surprising considering the service is struggling to make headway against competing online services like BPAY View.
Australia Post would seem to be cutting its own throat by encouraging people not to receive bills via the post, but the fact is that people are abandoning the post anyway.
Rather than receiving their bills via snail mail they opt to receive them directly via email or via an online portal like BPAY View.
Australia Post survived a digital challenge from Digital Post Australia but others will come, so the post office would rather you use its digital service than someone else's.
For people who would rather send and receive correspondence the old-fashioned way, Australia Post is pushing to bump up the price of sending a letter from 70 cents to $1. Last week it asked the consumer watchdog to approve the 30 cent price increase for standard letters – yet offer slower delivery times as of next year.
How do you receive your bills in the digital age? Is it time to sign up for a MyPost Digital Mailbox
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