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PETER RYAN: Speaking of the future, you're also looking at drone technology for deliveries. How could customers receive a parcel in the future from Australia Post? AHMED FAHOUR: We did this year do some trials, where we looked at: can we use a drone, for example, in regional and rural communities? Because sometimes the farmhouse isn't necessarily right at the gate. It could be quite a few kilometres in. And if our drivers were driving past, could we potentially get the item to our customers at their doorstep? **We put, very high on our pedestal, we put regional and rural customers because they are, by and large, a very important lifeblood of who Australia Post is. And so we want to try these innovations.** (What Forhours actually means is that, at it's very best - or nearly so, unless they can autonomously launch a drone from a moving vehicle or at least a short pause in the travelling, and have it land as well, and it has a range of 50 - 100+Km, and a short recharge time, ...

"Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off the cliff we go..." http://www.proprint.com.au/News/390528,auspost-letters-plummet-by-10.aspx AusPost letters plummet by 10% 30 Aug 2016 |  April Glover  Australia Post saw its letters business plummet by a whopping ten per cent in the financial year 2015/16, an entirely predictable consequence of its strategy of huge price hikes and slashing service levels. The fall in addressable mail was the biggest in the 207-year history of Australia Post, and contributed to a loss in the postal business of some $138m. And the last car on the grid goes, "Broom, Broom...." http://www.powerretail.com.au/news/australia-post-night-deliveries/ With online retailers increasingly looking to enhance customer service, many have started using alternate last-mile delivery providers that offer more flexible delivery times to ensure the package gets to the customer on time, the first time. As a result, a range of last-mile delivery companies have emerged to servi...

Australia Post 10 hrs · · Style Hello from the Australia Post Customer Care Centre! For our customers who are using Facebook as a way of communicating with us, our systems are down. We're getting to each comment individually, but it may take us a little longer to do so. If your matter is urgent, you can get in touch with us on Twitter (@auspost) or by logging a case here: https://auspost.com.au/help/#/ We're sorry for any delay in service this may cause! Have a great day! Nice try..... Except most of the people are either bailing from Australia Post, or have bailed, or are posting in other forums, and Australia Posts IT and web spaces, and uptime, reliability and stability can only be classed as unstably piss poor.

After what Fahour and his team of fuckwits have done to Australia Post - these people ought to be promptly decomissioned, and never ever let anywhere near providing any services at all... I mean Fahour fucked up the parcel sorting machines -so that none of the software works... The websites are always up shit creek., etc., etc., etc.. And after Fahour had the national call centre upgraded, the call waiting times went from 15 minutes, to an hour and a half... Just throw rocks at this fucking idiot of a CEO. http://www.zdnet.com/article/australia-post-details-plan-to-use-blockchain-for-voting/ Postal service wants to begin with small corporate and civic elections before ramping up to handle a full parliamentary election. Australia Post is looking to move into the business of running elections, and plans to use the blockchain as a central pillar of its plan. In a submission to the Victorian Electoral Matters Committee, the government-owned postal service said community expectations were d...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/parcel-delivery-service-sendle-in-stoush-with-australia-post/news-story/   Parcel delivery service Sendle in stoush with Australia Post EDWARD BOYD, The Daily Telegraph August 4, 2016 3:36pm “Post without the office” might seem a clever slogan for a fledgling door-to-door parcel delivery service. So catchy, it seems, that Australia Post has called in the lawyers in an attempt to kill it off. Even while the marketing line has been put on ice due to a trademark dispute, co-founder James Moody says Sendle is steadily carving into the former monopoly mail delivery market. Australia Post argues that the Glebe-based Sendle is in breach of its trademark by using the words “post” and “office”. “We thought (the slogan) was a great way of describing our service ... we are not trying to say we are the post office; we are trying to say we are the opposite,” he told Business Daily. “Having a trademark opposition to say that Australia Post owns the word ...

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-posting-a-letter-was-once-a-fun-social-occasion/news-story/   Talking Point: Posting a letter was once a fun, social occasion LINLEY GRANT, Mercury August 5, 2016 12:01am WHAT has happened to Australia Post? A third important letter, properly addressed, has not arrived. When I was four my parents bought a general store and post office. The mail came each day and the timber workers and farmers, or their wives, gathered and chatted excitedly while they collected their mail. It was my delight to pull down enough string from a ball in a wire cage overhead to tie up each brown paper parcel and to very carefully date stamp the letters. Best of all was to be allowed to press the stamp into hot, red wax to seal the registered mail bag. I loved that post office.  From 1809 the Postal Service was a government department, offering a utility which most people could afford. It provided the only source of communication from the time of...

Give Australia Posts handling of: Mail and Parcels. How much shit gets stolen in the way through, like: a) Money from christmas and birthday cards. b) Gift cards. c) Credit cards. d) The contents of packages. e) Packages. f) Mail. g) Passports. h) Anything that has value for cash or I.D. theft etc. Or i) The hole out of your arse. And for this purpose, getting carded, or not, things going to the wrong address and never coming back - and your life being completely fucked up - all counts as theft... Lets not nit pick here - gone is gone. Followed up with just given how much fucks is given, = 0 Fucks, to either recover or compensate the theft..... Not only is the 2016 census just a data matching bullshit trip - simply to cross reference everything the scumbag 53rd state of the USA surveillance state holds on you, it's all going through Australia Post.... We have a problem. Doing the bullshit trip called the census and then putting the paper version of it, into the hands of Australia P...