A few weeks after Australia Post was in the news with a report it was considering 7 day delivery and 24 hours after a news report in Victoria of a flood of Father’s Day deliveries, we received an Australia Post notice at our Hawthorn office advising mail deliveries will now be every second day, until mid 2021.
Mixed messages everywhere at the moment. It might have something to do with the fact we’re in a Pandemic!!
It’s not mixed messages, you’re just missing some information. Parcels are being delivered 7 days but letters are every second day so they can focus on the increased parcel volumes.
They took the time to design and print a nice colour postcard advising the business of delivery every second day to run for almost a year, but left off any other news. Businesses can only go off what they are told.
There are many Newsagencies with LPO’s why not ask one of them what the ooficial statement from AP. is?
we received a questionaire from AP asking how often and at what time of day do we open our P.O. Box.
among other questions such as. Would your company be disadvantaged if you P.O Box only recieved mail once, twice, or three times a week.
There is currently an enquiry into the running of AP about its operation resulting in the objection to an answer for non disclosure. The Committee is stating there is an unacceptable opacity within the answer explained by AP in writing to the committee.
he mail reduction has nothing to do with the increase parcel volumes it is a seperate issue of Asian mail costs versus Australian and our exchange rate rendering these transactions at a huge loss.
Graeme, the official statement is on the Australia Post issued postcard, delivered by them, saying that delivery is every second day. My point is that they are in the media saying they are busy yet here telling us that it’s every second day. My company spends over $50,000 a year on mail postage.
Mark,
I am pointing out the conflict in messages the one you got and the others out there.
I emphasize with you and am saying AP. is not performing.
I gave reasons why. Look them up.
Asian differences are being sunsidised by Aust Pots users here in Postage cost.
Fact.
Aust. Post -ON -LINE boom lifts Aust Post
by David Ross-Posted an hour ago in today’s updated Australian.
Sub Heading Aust Post get a blast from the Senate Enquiry.
It points out Jess’s reasoning in the above post.
The Senate enquiry is pointing out the lack of transparency I noted for the reasons of the trial peod now wanting to make it permanent.
$50k a year in mail postage? Is all that postage necessary these days? What sort of postage is it predominantly? Could you use electronic means for some of it?
There are 2 worlds in postage.
Letters or items below 500g : PO has the market because their prices are so low. Demand is dropping through the floor so PO is losing heavily even though monopoly supplier.
Parcels : massive uplift and courier companies can easily undercut PO. Whilst PO has benefited from demand uplift, they have the wrong infrastructure and cost base. Also social distancing is proving to be nightmare in PO sorting offices.
Save yourselves money and get a quicker service from any non PO courier.
The whole thing with AP is all smoke and mirrors and not that transparent. The previous CEO split AP into 2 divisions letter and parcels then proceeded to beat the drum that letters where a loosing battle and letter prices continue to increase while parcels sales where going through the roof and making a bigger profit year on year.
But one thing i have not seen any story relating to is AP giving discounts to bulk mail.I know when stamps where retailing at 35c i could negotiate a price from 11c to 20c depending on size and volume of the article to be posted. This was great for large advertising promo’s and big business and i believe it to be subsidized partially by the general public and small business in the price of a stamp. The previous CEO when grilled about the discount deflected the question partly and put it down as market forces. But when you have a monopoly on letter mail what are the forces.