Tag: Australia Post

Remote areas in Australia get cheaper postal rates

Posted by | Jun 4, 2003 | |

Australia Post will set special cheaper postal rates for medical supplies and educational material being sent to and from people living in remote areas of Australia under a plan announced last week by Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston. Senator Alston said the decision would make life easier for people in remote areas who often rely on medicines, textbooks and other material being sent to them because of the lack of ready access to such material. To be eligible for the special rate, parcels can only contain medical prescription items, non-prescription pharmacy medicines or other medicines specified by a registered medical practitioner.

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Australia Post to charge 50 cents extra per air mail parcel

Posted by | May 30, 2003 | |

Australia Post will soon charge customers an extra 50 cents per parcel sent overseas by air mail to cover the cost of upgraded security. The price rise is planned from September 1. It covers business and private air mail and economy air mail parcels sent overseas, not letters. The hike was revealed during Senate estimate hearings this week.

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Australian Post Office expects profit

Posted by | May 28, 2003 | |

Australia Post said yesterday its profit this financial year would be similar to last year, but refused to say how much money it would hand over to the Government. Chief finance officer Peter Meehan said it made an after-tax profit of AusD291.8 million in 2001-02.

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Australian CCC announces final decision on reply paid mail

Posted by | Apr 3, 2003 | |

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today announced its final decision not to object to Australia Post’s proposal to restructure prices for Reply Paid mail. The changes are to take effect from 1 July 2003, dependent on the deployment of a new Reply Paid computer management system. The ACCC’s decision will lead to a reduction in the price of small, barcoded Reply Paid letters. The price of large and small unbarcoded Reply Paid letters will rise.

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Couriers in Australia win express race

Posted by | Feb 10, 2003 | |

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.

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