Tag: Australia Post

THE 300-plus residents of Mt Larcom, northwest of Gladstone, yesterday became
the first of about 40,000 rural Australians to gain access to face-to-face
banking and electronic bill-paying at local post offices

About 300 angry postal workers rallied outside the Sydney headquarters of Australia Post today demanding their jobs be protected. The postal worker’s union held the rally in protest against moves by Australia Post to contract out some permanent jobs and shift current employees into part-time work. But Australia Post has denied the union claims, saying it had no plan to implement widespread contracting out of jobs

In the global junk mail world, Australians are among the underprivileged, forced to exist on just 208 pieces of junk mail a person each year, according to Gary Lee, the Australia Post executive who runs the core letters business. Lucky Western Europeans get about 400 pieces a person, depending on the country. And Americans enjoy a lip-smacking 700-plus pieces of junk mail each nearly 200 billion pieces zipping from coast to coast annually