Australia Post workers, members of the Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU), will stop work for 24 hours in NSW, Victoria and Queensland on Thursday for mass meetings to discuss further industrial action on enterprise bargaining.
The action is part of the first national postal strike in almost 20 years.
Read MoreCompanies allocating big budgets to email and SMS campaigns may want to
think twice following new research conducted by TNS showing less than one
in ten Australians want organisations to reach them by email or SMS.
Whether it be for promotional messages or essential communication such as
bills, the report reveals Australian consumers vastly prefer post to any
other medium.
Australia post has built its first ‘Biller branded’ internet bill payment system for the Australian Gas Light company (AGL).
The 3.1 million customers of AGL, one of the country’s largest energy suppliers, in selected parts of the country can now pay their bills on-line directly from the AGL web site as well as the POSTbillpay internet portal.
Short backgrounds on the five nominees for the 2004 Industry Leadership Award:
Peter Bakker – TNT Post Group/TPG
Helge Israelson – Post Denmark
Graeme John – Australia Post
Jack Potter – USPS
Elmar Toime – Royal Mail
P:LibraryPostal2004 WMA Industry Leadership Award nominees.pdf
Few organisations have held as prominent a place in the community as Australia Post. With a history stretching back to 1809, when an emancipated convict, Isaac Nichols, opened the first post office in his home in George Street, Sydney, the postal service now faces its most challenging period and the prospect that the deregulation of mail delivery even privatisation will be put back on the agenda.
Under Graeme John , a former Australian Rules player and coach with South Melbourne, Australia Post has embarked on an extraordinary transformation that is starting to help it shake off an image as a tired bureaucracy slowly losing its relevance.
It has overhauled the format and locations of its post offices and has implemented Future Post, an initiative to reduce mail processing costs in an effort to keep physical mail competitive with the enormous threat posed by electronic communications.
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