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30th Dec 2016. The Facebook Fan Club Web Page. Australia Post: Following heavy rainfall in Melbourne, a small number of Post Offices are temporarily closed due to flooding. We will resume trading as soon as it's safe to do so. Some areas will also be impacted by minor collection/delivery delays today as services were disrupted by severe weather and some delivery facilities have been impacted by flooding and water damage. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Customer: Cathy Lorch "Temporary Service Disruption"? What's your excuse for the rest of the year?

Editorial: Australia Post needs to lift its game EDITORIAL, Mercury December 29, 2016 12:00am http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/editorial-australia-post-needs-to-lift-its-game/news-story/ CHRISTMAS is traditionally a busy time for the nation’s postal service, so it’s perhaps not surprising that there is a surge of complaints about deliveries at this time of year. Cards and gifts sent and expected from places near and far are tracked to ensure their arrival before Christmas, and disappointment is keenly felt when they don’t.  But this Christmas seems to have been accompanied by an unusual number of complaints from Mercury readers about items not having made it to their ultimate destination. Nobody can doubt the astonishing logistical challenge Australia Post faces at this time of year. An additional 1500 staff are drafted in to help with parcel volumes increasing from the already unprecedented million parcels per day volumes being experienced by late October. The boom in int...

https://news.bitcoin.com/australia-post-uber-moment-parcel/ Australia Post: ‘Uber-Like’ Shift Awaits Parcel Services March 17, 2016 Australia Post The use cases for blockchain technology are expanding every day into the minds of many. Just recently the Australian Financial Review reported the Australia Post will consider the concept of using distributed ledger technology to store digital identities. Australia Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour said that parcel operations could experience an “Uber-like” moment due to emerging technology and startups.  Australia Post to Explore ‘Blockchain’s Wider Applications’ Australia-PostThe Australia Post is a government-owned corporation that provides postal services all across the region. Fahour states that the Post handles over 90% of Australian passports, and he believes a digital replacement will come. The CEO has had a strategy to be “future ready” since he began his role with the business in 2010. His starting idea was to add an array of d...

This is an interesting article - in that Fahour essentially demonstrates that he is a blundering buffoon, who "still hasn't got it" that people have more or less stopped sending letters - even up to the day before he is even turning up to work at Australia Post, on $4.8 million a year - which every super genius banker bullshit artist is surely entitled too, when being deemed to be "emminently qualified" for the job, by his Goldman Sachs ex director Banker Buddy - Turbine Turnbull - then the Liberal Party communications minister - who loved the idea of money laundering and global tax evasion in the Cayman Islands... And no doubt the total nose dive in service and rocketting price rises have justified his self serving bloated bonuses, by his criminal comrades in the Afailure Posts bored of directors.... which he serves on.  So lets let Mr Sun Shines Out My Arse Fahour demonstrate his all illuminating intellect to us all in his own words. http://www.themandarin.com...

I wonder what would happen if one got say 500 DL sized envelopes, filled them with shit, addressed them to Ahmed Fahour at the correct address, and then marked them "Not at this address - Return To Sender", so that they were sent back to self, and deposited them in his closest pillar box in Toorack (what eva)? To find out: a) How many never came back? b) Typical times for their return - with min and max days taken etc. c) Would the idiots at Australia Post attempt to charge postal fees for the mail that wasn't delivered? Etc.

I'll be glad when Fat Head Fahour, the worlds most incompetent CEO and his team of money grubbing terds, lose the Australia Post contract for doing pass ports. I mean if ALL the passports that get stolen by Australia Post isn't bad enough, the fact that "Australia Post" is having it's own private "public holiday", AND people are getting told to turn up for their pass port processing appointments... At post offices that are closed for that day...... http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/passport-appointment-scheduled-despite-post-office-being-closed-20161228-gtit7f.html     Victoria Ticha    Sarah Hort arrived at Potts Point post office on Wednesday for an appointment she made online more than two weeks ago. The 23-year-old had received a text on Tuesday from Australia Post, confirming her midday appointment to renew her passport. But to her surprise, the doors were locked. She tried to call Australia Post's help and support line but couldn't get through. The...

This is a nice succinct article on the traps and tribulations of giving and getting gift cards... Not absolutely all encompassing, but detailed enough - i.e. Read the FINE print before buying. True to form, Australia Post's gift card, if they didn't get stolen in the mail, or since the Australian population has wised up to the thieving scumbags in Australia Post, and it's apathetic "shit for brains" managemnent, who refuse to act on anything, perhaps no one is actually sending things through the post, and are actually giving them in person.... Well Australia Post's gift cards attract a bunch of shitty "make the scumbag CEO and his cash sucking cronies a bit richer", type fees.... Again - better value to be had else where. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/my-advice-before-you-dig-deep-and-buy-gift-cards-this-christmas-20161220-gtf0ki.html Take the Australia Post Visa Prepaid gift card for example. You have to fork out $6 to buy the card, $4 to speak with...

http://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/brisbane-residents-still-prefer-visiting-centres-to-shopping-online/news-story/df8b0f026af1f0001b094cae09993cf6 Brisbane residents still prefer visiting centres to shopping online Jackie Sinnerton, The Courier-Mail December 23, 2016 1:00am FREE ice-cold airconditioning remains one of the main draw­cards for bricks-and-mortar shopping in Brisbane. River City shop­pers are less likely than people in Sydney and Melbourne to shop online, with a new study suggesting they enjoy escaping the heat by ­retreating to retail centres. Australia Post data shows online shopping in Brisbane climbed only 15 per cent in the six months to June this year compared to the same period last year. “Brisbane’s ever-growing and developing shopping centres provide an escape from our warmer, humid weather,” said retail expert Asso­ciate Professor Gary Mortimer, of the Queensland University of Technology.

http://m.news-mail.com.au/news/christmas-mail-ripped-into-dumped-in-the-street/3126333/      by Carolyn Archer CALLOUS Christmas thieves helped themselves to mail from a Bargara unit complex in the days before Christmas, ripping open cards in an apparent attempt to find cash sent through the post. Tanya Drew came across the pile of discarded mail in Svensson Heights on Christmas morning while out for a run with her daughter. She then took time out of her own Christmas celebrations to return the letters to their rightful owners. "Just outside the Svensson St store I noticed all this mail over the road,” Ms Drew said. "It looked like it had been thrown out of a car window, the way it was lying all over the road. "I picked it up and realised it was all from the same block of units and I noticed a couple of Christmas card only envelopes had been torn open so obviously someone was looking for money. "I was like 'I can't just leave it here', so I gathered it a...

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/apca1989337/ Commonwealth Consolidated Acts [ Index ] [ Table ] [ Search ] [ Search this Act ] [ Notes ] [ Noteup ] [ Download ] [ Help ] AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Long Title PART 1--PRELIMINARY 1 . Short title   2 . Commencement   3 . Interpretation--definitions   4 . Interpretation--meaning of carry by post   5 . Interpretation--meaning of carry by ordinary post   6 . Interpretation--meaning of subsidiary   7 . Extraterritorial operation of Act   8 . Extension of Act to external Territories   9 . Extension of Act to offshore areas   10 . Act binds the Crown   11 . Act subject to Radiocommunications Act and Telecommunications Act etc.   11A . Application of the Criminal Code   PART 2--AUSTRALIA POST AND ITS BOARD Division 1--C...

http://www.productreview.com.au/p/australia-post.html LostinSpace Touckley OzPost is so bad its hard to find a suitable title.... 2 out of 5, reviewed on Dec 26, 2016 I write this after having made around 300 purchases on eBay and a number of other online stores in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malayia and Philippines. I am aware most of these sellers use a Consolidated Shipping Hub... which seems to mean they sit in a bin waiting for an aircraft to have spare luggage space and they fill it with the cheap stuff! So its does take time... that I can accept BUT - when I find package as been held up in Sydney customs for 3 weeks or more... something is wrong. In the last month I have needed to claim re funds for lost parcels in transit - but out of 7 - 3 turned up after 7 - 9 weeks. Cheap tracking ends at ( in my case) Sydney customs and some sellers claim my "loss" is due to customs losing the package. Who knows...its Lost in Space! Next I have even took it on myself to drive to ...

Should go to the post office, and demand a fucking refund on their postage + costs - being your time and expenses. Serve it in a written notice to the CEO: Ahmed Fahour GPO Box 1777,  Melbourne Vic 3001 Don't forget to include the cost of postage.

LOL not even taking or making 25 post cards a day, to pay the boxes way. It's why people use smart phones, tablets and laptops.... So the messages get there, immediately, and at very low cost. Without being ripped off on postage fees, or your mail getting pilfered, getting lost, misdelivered, taking weeks, and getting the grand tour of getting fucked around if it does go astray. http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/cairns/australia-post-to-axe-mailbox-from-cairns-international-airport/news-story/ef13b087d514a84ec6bbcc9319417ea6 Australia Post to axe mailbox from Cairns International Airport Daniel Bateman, The Cairns Post December 26, 2016 6:00am INTERNATIONAL travellers will no longer be able to send postcards about their adventures in the Far North from Cairns Airport. Australia Post is set to decommission the mailbox in the international terminal, after a period of low patronage. The Federal Government-owned corporation says as few as two to three items a day were deposited at the ...

The extract: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/we-cant-rely-on-being-asias-quarry-says-ahmed-fahour-as-he-enjoys-australia-post-boom-20161216-gtciua.html The Australia Post chief segues neatly from the booming Christmas period to the opportunities awaiting Australian small business in the $20 billion Australian online marketplace, which grew by 10 per cent this year - and with his parcels outfit as a partner, of course. "You can be a small business owner and you can sell to the 11 million households in this country, and participate in the $20 billion. Or you can say hang on, the dollar is at 75 cents to the US dollar, we have products – like vitamins, milk powder, soft commodities, like our fresh green products . . . that the Asians want to get hold of," he says. "Our future as a country, our prosperity, can't rely on - like it did 100 years ago - the sheep's back and it can't rely on being Asia's quarry." Mmmm K. People are incre...