Tag: Australia Post

Post office may acquire NZ courier

Posted by | May 16, 2002 | |

Australia Post has emerged as frontrunner to buy Ausdoc’s $NZ200million ($167.2 million) New Zealand courier and express freight business Freightways Express Ltd, in a move that would signal an Australasian expansion strategy by the postal giant.
Ausdoc, a document logistics group, announced on Tuesday that it was in exclusive negotiations to sell the New Zealand business as part of a break-up strategy.
Ausdoc said a binding sales agreement would be reached in the next fortnight.

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Australia Post stamp price push

Posted by | Apr 27, 2002 | |

THE cost of a basic postage stamp may rise by 5 from next year and the Howard Government has not given up hope of broader postal system reforms.
Australia Post has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to increase the price of postage for standard letters from 45 to 50 from January 2003.
Australia Post group manager (letters) Gary Lee said the last price increase was 10 years ago and since then, the consumer price index had risen 26 per cent.

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Australia Post flourishing in E-environment

Posted by | Feb 19, 2002 | |

In the late 1990s, many IT gurus eagerly consigned Australia Post to the dustbin. A warhorse of the old economy, the government-owned monopoly couldn’t possibly compete with e-mail, electronic fulfilment and private high-tech mailing houses. Or so went the gurus’ mantra.
Within a few years its core business would wither and die; outlets would shut down and the gleaming, paperless world of private electronic delivery would stand supreme.

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Australian rural mail delivery under threat

Posted by | Feb 6, 2002 | |

SOME rural mail deliveries could be disrupted if Australia Post changes force contractors to withdraw their service.
Australia Post is requiring people renewing mail delivery contracts to become incorporated, at a cost of up to $1500, before their tenders will be considered.

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