Productivity Commision - Australia Posts PISS WEAK submission.

I am not copy pasting in the full thing here - because I got to section 4 and read it, and thought "Who ever wrote this is both lazy and full of shit."

Fahour is a wanker - always has been.


If he produced this bullshit report - he should have been sacked on the spot for it.

If he signed off on it - he should be kicked to the kerb for being the shyster bum that he is.

http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/110847/sub120.pdf



Productivity Commission Retail Inquiry

Australia Post Submission

Are there any logistic concerns that have impeded the take up of online shopping?

For example, are there any concerns relating to the costs, timeliness, effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of purchased items by Australia Post and other courier and express freight services?


Are there any logistic concerns that have impeded the take up of online shopping?

For example, are there any concerns relating to the costs, timeliness, effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of purchased items by Australia Post and other courier and express freight services?

Are there any logistic concerns that have impeded the take up of online shopping?

For example, are there any concerns relating to the costs, timeliness, effectiveness and efficiency of the delivery of purchased items by Australia Post and other courier and express freight services?

1. Australia has a fully competitive parcels market. Australia Post has no monopoly in parcels, but has proven to be a major player in the growing business to consumer parcels market given its range of parcel products and services, efficient operations, the reach of its distribution network and the fact that Australia Post is required, as far as practicable, to operate in a manner consistent with sound commercial practice.

2. Australia Post would like to address certain issues relating to: (a) the pricing of its parcel services; (b) its parcel delivery standards; and (c) tracked options in the Australian parcels market.


Pricing of international inbound parcels versus domestic pricing

3. Australia Post is required under its enabling legislation, the Australia Postal Corporation Act 1989 (Cth), and the Federal Government’s Governance Arrangements for Commonwealth Business Enterprises, to conduct its operations, as far as practicable, in a manner consistent with sound commercial practice, to operate and price efficiently, to earn at least a commercial rate of
return and in accordance with any applicable international treaties. These obligations are reflected in Australia Post’s parcel pricing structure and its rates are not subsidised from other areas of its business operations.

4. Australia Post is not privy to the basis on which parcel rates are determined by overseas retailers, postal administrations or other carriers. It is therefore unknown whether subsidies are involved or whether there is a longer term strategy by these players to provide parcel services at a loss in order to grow market share. In these circumstances any conclusions drawn when comparing
parcel rates in different countries is more than likely to be inconclusive.

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 Re point 3, and mostly Point 4.

Fahour is just full of shit.



"Australia Post is not privy to the basis on which parcel rates are determined by overseas retailers, postal administrations or other carriers. It is therefore unknown whether subsidies are involved or whether there is a longer term strategy by these players to provide parcel services at a loss in order to grow market share."


Because

a) You can go and find out - by base level intelligence via the net and phone calls, and contacts in other countries.

b) You can put pencil to paper, and surveille the operations and examine their paper trains and do a reasonably accurate costing of their services and compare it to the prices.


After all - the mail industry on a global basis, it's an identical business, with different wages, overheads, and pricing.

And there are VERY clear proofs of huge subsidies being applied, there are probable degrees of subsidies being applied, and then there are indications, that minor subsidisation is occuring, and there are clear signs that there probably is no subsidisation occurring.

The art of estimating, costing and pricing etc., is an established industry.

The whole world runs on it.

And most especially the logistics / postal industries.

Every stage of the operation is calculated to the second and cent.

The big ruccus about The US postal system calculating it was more cost effective to only do delivery van routes, with only left hand turns....

Time and motion studies...

This shit has been done to the absolute death.

Container ships, book places in ports, arrive, load and off load containers, refuel and depart - and every stage of every part of that whole web of networks is timed, priced, synchoronised and overseen AND understood.


That is of course, unless your a scamming bullshit artist who is too lazy to get fuck all done.

"Australia Post is not privy to the basis on which parcel rates are determined by overseas retailers, postal administrations or other carriers. It is therefore unknown whether subsidies are involved or whether there is a longer term strategy by these players to provide parcel services at a loss in order to grow market share."

Be fucked your not.....


Everything about what Fahour says is crap because ALL of these things, can be calculated, even with approximation, to within a few percent of the true cost.

And this conclusion goes along hand in hand, with all the other "Fahour has done fuck all except for fucking it up worsera" records on his tenure at Australia Post (and everywhere else).


Fahour is just full of shit.