Tag: Australia Post

Australian Government says Labor has postal service plan

Posted by | Sep 28, 2001 | |

CANBERRA, Sept 27 AAP – The federal government today accused Labor of having a cunning plan to fully privatise postal services if elected to government.

Backbencher Jan McLucas (ALP, Qld) had written a letter to the community on behalf of the Labor caucus seeking feedback on the likely impacts of a fully competitive postal service, the government said.

“We hear a lot about how little the Labor Party seems to be interested in policy and that’s why I was particularly attracted to something that came across my desk the other day,” Communications Minister Richard Alston said.

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Telstra (Australia) in e-Billing Project with Post

Posted by | Sep 26, 2001 | |

Telstra [Melbourne, Australia] is preparing to boost the electronic delivery of its bills across its retail customer base in a joint project with Australia Post to be rolled out by the end of the year. The new online bill presentment service is part of a belated move to participate in an aggregated POSTbillpay online service launched by Australia Post last year.

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Net value of Australia Post bill payment scheme

Posted by | Sep 13, 2001 | |

Australia Post has joined forces with Internet firm ninemsn to create the country’s largest bill-payment network so far.
The venture will allow ninemsn’s 4.6 million monthly on-line customers to receive electronic bills and schedule bill payment through the ninemsn Web site.
Australia Post’s national manager of financial services,
Terry Stephens, said the agreement with ninemsn would allow the corporation’s on-line billpay service to reach more Australians than ever before.

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Post offices deliver bush banking

Posted by | Aug 15, 2001 | |

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

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AUSTRALIA POST WORKERS RALLY OVER CONTRACTING OF JOBS

Posted by | Jul 23, 2001 | |

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

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