I say this, Fahour says that.




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, or refuelling, it can reload it's own magazine, and has a flight speed of 300Kmh, and there are 3 or 4 with every van, this drone delivery idea, is not going to be any faster than driving it in. And since many remote/r places, usually go past the front gate at least once a day or three, not leaving a parcel in the road side mail boxes, and using drones. achieves fucking nothing.

There is going to be a lot of issues, and if a drone goes down in Bumfuck nowhere - good luck with retrieving it.

There is also the other issue of the major players streamlining their regional deliveries, with the regional courier networks, thus gaining the market share there, as they have in the intercity routes....

That is why Forhours is bullshitting on about serving "The Great Australian Out Back" - it has fuck all to do with supplying a quality cost effective service, it's all about keeping the last of Australia Posts hostage market - that is now, and has been rapidly transitioning away from Australia Post, and onto the private couriers.


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