Moving the goal post achieves the goals - According to Australia Post.
The Geelong Advertiser ran a similar mail delivery time test, to a number of other news services, only they got to the point a bit better in their description of the results: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/geelong-test-shows-australia-post-service-has-deteriorated-since-stamp-price-increase/ Now if a service is hardly used, you get low priority and low cost services... and if you want better you pay more - geddit... So in one sense the move to the dead snail mail version of snail mail - kind of makes sense... except jumping up the prices and lowering the speed are contrary to the issues of expediency and generating more business etc., except that for general mail, most people really don't give too much of a fuck if the mail takes 2 days or 4 days to get there. So in one sense the Geelong advertiser story is "RIGHT" but in others, it's totally wrong / bullshit beat up / play the facts and figures story. "A Geelong Advertiser test has shown the c...