Australia Post has been doing more clever stuff as it recasts its business with a stronger digital focus. The latest announcement – about its digital mailbox – further demonstrates why newsagents who want an over the counter bill payment solution for the channel are out of date in their thinking. That ship sailed years ago and here’s how Australia Post is focused on a more mobile and digital future:
Australia Post opens up its MyPost Digital Mailbox to Android smartphone users
With more Australians wanting greater convenience and choice when it comes to mail delivery, Australia Post has launched the beta release of MyPost Digital Mailbox for Android devices to the public. The Android App is available now at https://play.google.com/store?hl=en (search for MyPost Digital Mailbox). And Australia Post invites user feedback at apdm.consumer@gmail.com.
It joins the Apple iPhone App and of course the laptop or desktop options of accessing your MyPost Digital Mailbox. Whichever way you access it, MyPost Digital Mailbox gives you the power to receive and pay most bills and store important documents securely online, all in one place.
Organisations like Telstra and AMP, utilities that include Sydney Water, Goulburn Valley Water and Shoalhaven Water, myGov, and local councils across the country, are choosing to use the MyPost Digital Mailbox as a billing and statement service.
The online free storage also lets you keep records that you might need for tax or when you are travelling, and lets you manage important paperwork securely and much more efficiently. By putting all your important paperwork in one secure place that you can access anytime, anyplace where there’s an Internet connection, you can streamline the process of managing an important part of your life, at the same time freeing time to do other things
To find out more and to open your free MyPost Digital Mailbox from Australia Post, visit digitalmailbox.com.au.
Sure I have issues with Australia Post – in particular their government owned stores that continue to compete with small business newsagencies. Outside of that though, kudos to them for their work in recasting their business model.
Newsagents who want a bill payment solution to offer through our channel should spend their free time wishing for something more relevant to today.