It's what Fahour isn't saying that fucks the equation up.

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 increasingly bypassing Australia Post.

The open hostility is thick, hard and getting worse.

And with the Australia Post scam / arrangements as part international postal union - where you can import things from China by post for free or fuck all...

And not quite so apparently subsidised by the government, like you can import by post from many other countries, say for $25, but to send it back, via Australia Post, it's like $125...

And given Fahours track record thus far, I don't think much of what Fahour has to say, nor do I hold him in any sense of the word, as having greatly improved Australia Post, as an operating business.