Tag: Australasia

Courier companies say they might be more expensive than Express Post but they have an important edge: late pick-up, early delivery. An experiment by The Australian last week, with three packages sent from each of three locations, showed that Australia Post’s express mail managed to either beat the competitors into the hands of the recipient — or at least tie. And at considerably lower cost. Last week’s survey of nine satchels using two private companies and Australia Post showed similar delivery times for all services regardless of price. But it used a 9am pick-up time, which TNT‘s Peter Longley believes levelled the playing field for the government service.