Has Aussie post lifted its game?

[Fulvio]

...... what is this strange service you speak of .......

Methinks he referreth to a 'delivery room' in a 'maternity ward'...

[Unicorn]

:laugh2: .... yes, much more probable McDuck!

[interest]

Australia post's annual results have been published for the financial year 2012-2013, Australia post delivered 95.5% of all letters early or on time & 98.8% of letters were delivered on time or not more than one workday day.

[keldaw]

I just posted 2 x pacific dawn models ships to kent in England

 ships were $ 35.00 ea  =    $ 70.00

 I wrapped them both together and sent by air mail
 

 postage was $ 85.80  plus  $ 9.60 insurance  total $ 95.40

 total all up  $165.40 ..

 sea mail  was $ 46.40  + same insurance , a lot cheaper but took 3 months to get delivered , so I was told by the post lady ..

total weight was  2.025  kgs

 part 2 of this story carries on today ,
 this guy in  KENT  in England paid me $ 165.40 , by paypal as he said he would ,ok  ,that was the total amount I told him .
2 ship models plus postage  , that's what it cost me , plus a few trips to get it weighed in town , then back home to wait for payment  before I post to him .then a big job to wrap them up good because they are fragile  ,,, now I just went to my account at paypal and I have been hit with a bill of $ 6.92 because he paid me by paypal , so now I am out of pocket for $ 6.92 . so my question is do I email him and ask him for that amount or do I just forget it and go out with my losses of $ 6.92 ..?          ,, kel ,,

[purplepennyhunter]

The answer to the original question title of this thread.
News Story

[Australian coin]

o man another one!

[JeffH]

Well, I just came across this. Letter products and services guide
Now you have no excuse for lodging non-complying letters (I suggest that is probably a large proportion of letters posted).
No suggestion of lifting their game here but that exercise must have kept a team of shiny bums employed for many months!

Does it really need 57 pages to define letter requirements? Note the internal links so you can easily jump to the cross-referenced sections; and the mostly useless index -first three terms I went to look up aren't indexed.
MADNESS

[purplepennyhunter]

Jeff seeings you have read the whole thing give me a nutshell summary in 1 sentence. As long as they don't try and tell me I can't post non-documents as a letter then I'll happily keep on sailing without reading all that drawl.

[JeffH]

That would be a fairly long sentence so I will give you a tit-bit I found -relevant to non-documents, I think.
Letters must be flexible so they can negotiate sorting machinery, which imposes great stress on them!

[JeffH]

Dead letter day as posties have less and less to deliver

[stevo1962]

Tasmania to Cairns in 1 working day by standard Registered Post must be some sort of record as that's over 3500km - unbelievable

   Dropped in to Moonah PO Tasmania  Thursday 16.56PM 15th May and
   out for delivery in Cairns at 8.15am today

[ausjack]

No way and I thought what I sent got there quick, your just touched at the moment Stevo so go get a lotto ticket

[stevo1962]

No way and I thought what I sent got there quick, your just touched at the moment Stevo so go get a lotto ticket

Yeah the $20 mill in tommorrow nights draw would help me buy a few
1930 pennies

[JeffH]

Letter post is losing a lot of money. So, what is AP CEO lately quoted as as saying?
Yes, they are going to reduce the service -maybe three days a week delivery, maybe no home delivery, maybe, maybe, maybe...sounds like a "test the water" exercise to me.
What a great business idea! Lose money on a service so reduce the service to to ensure it will lose even more money.

Stand by for promotion of PO boxes to avoid the problems.

I know this is a Government mandated service and price is set to ensure it loses money. So, when will the government subsidise the service? My confident answer -never.

[Basil]

I think this is the start of wearing down the Public for Oz. Post to be sold,probaly Post Office by Post Office along the lines of Franchisees.My Niece is a Journo.,she feels SBS is only an election or 3 away from being sold,also TV Licences(every home) may possibly be back on the agenda in the years to come.