#australiapost #auspol

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/08/15/australia-post-same-day-delivery/?utm_campaign=Sunday%20Best%20-%2020230820&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=

They're getting sneakier...
#Scams #AustraliaPost #Dontclickthelink

@frankfil

It doesn’t matter whether you are home at time of delivery or not, and I’ve decided it’s best not to risk meddling with delivery insttuctions.
#AustraliaPost, noting the Australian reputation for gambling, have appealed to punters by turning their delivery system into a game of chance

i particularly love the heart stopping anticipation a “your parcel has been delivered” message, followed by all the hoo-hah involved in getting a pic of where the parcel was left.

PS pack a cuppla vegemite sandwiches for when you start scouring the neighbourhood to find a residence with final resting place resembling the photo #AustraliaPost keeps as “proof of delivery”

Wasn't sure if I would be home today so had a delivery via Aust Post redirected to my local Post Office. This has triggered this sequence of events:

SMS and push notification stating my package will be delivered today by 2:40pm - ok correct but strangely worded as it's going to the PO not my home.

A tracking update to state the package has arrived at my local PO - so it's arrived but it's not yet ready for collection - confusing!

A second set of SMS/push msgs to say “The Postie has been delayed we are sorry we will deliver later today" - err but it's already at the PO!

A tracking update to state the package is ready for collection from PO, timestamped prior to the "sorry we are running late" msgs.

Yep not confusing in any way at all!

#AustraliaPost #AustPost

I'd be quite fine with weekly letter deliveries, as I hardly receive any mail anyway (all my bills come via the Internet), and I only check my letterbox once or twice a week. But for those without Internet access or unable to use it, weekly mail deliveries might be a real problem, especially since the due date for utilities bills is often only 10-14 days from the date of issue (compared to 21-30 days back in the 1990s ). Bills could arrive after the due date.

Article extract: "Australia Post has been a beneficiary of the nation’s growing obsession with online shopping, with the group delivering over 500 million parcels in the 2022 financial year. But Graham said the boost wasn’t enough to counter the mounting costs of fulfilling Australia Post’s obligations to deliver paper mail across the country.

“We have a fixed cost network, we have community service obligation [on] which we spend $348 million, primarily focused on the mail business. Our whole organisation is geared towards meeting that 98.5 per cent on-time mail delivery,” he said.

“It sucks up a lot of resources, we are delivering to every single community, every single day. We have 15,000 street posting boxes that have to be cleared every single day. A lot of those boxes are empty because people aren’t posting stuff.”" #AustraliaPost #letters #mail #Australia

Australia Post losses ballooning as consumers send fewer letters - https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/our-online-retail-obsession-won-t-save-australia-post-20230427-p5d3n0.html

#AustraliaPost #ScamAlert

1. Don't call me Naomi
2. Pretty sure A.P. have their OWN domain name...

Renewing a simple PO Box with #AustraliaPost has to be one of the most tedious things humanity has to offer..

1. Paid $261 for the most basic PO Box with PO Box Plus (so I can receive parcels), the website says it's now sent me a receipt and tax invoice..

2. No receipt and no tax invoice..

3. I contact #AusPost and their flunky says to "check your junk mail folder" (which is the very first thing I tried), I email back again already done, please send tax invoice.

4. Same flunky emails back saying they've sent a "second" (lol, where's the first?) tax invoice attached to this email, there's no attachment on the email at all..

5. Wrote back again letting flunky know there was in fact no attachment and to PLEASE *SEND* MY *RECEIPT* and *TAX INVOICE* THANKYOU!..

6. Money came out of my account straight away upon paying, still waiting for the tax invoice and receipt, the joys of dealing with mindless money-hungry corporations................

sad but also awesome - A new postal service will be run by the #Dalgety District Community Association - an army of volunteers is reopening a post office in the NSW Snowy Mountains town after years without any postal services. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-25/dalgety-australia-post-office-reopen-to-resume-mail-delivery/102140296 #Australia #PostalService #AustraliaPost #volunteers

#auspol As the federal govt considers allowing #AustraliaPost to modify (regressively) its letter service, I listened to an #ABCLocalRadio phone-in.
1) I can't conceive anything more insensitive than e-mailing condolences to a bereaved close person.
2) How many attempts at online fraud do people receive by e-mails masquerading as utility suppliers? Me: plenty. How many in a letter? Nil.
3) Why is it incumbent on me to buy a phone and maintain an account to live as an ordinary citizen?

I’m guessing #AustraliaPost sacked the people responsible for maintaining their post boxes quite some time ago. #auspol

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/02/no-love-for-letters-australia-posts-future-under-review-as-traditional-mail-declines

You had one job.
#australiapost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-02/review-launched-australia-post-focus-letter-deliveries/102040792?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

#PostageStampsOfAusrtralia
#AustraliaPost released two postage stamps to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, as the nation commemorates her 70th year as Head of the Commonwealth.
https://twitter.com/ians_india/status/1510916313916768266/photo/2

#PostageStampsOfAusrtralia

#AustraliaPost released two postage stamps to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, as the nation commemorates her 70th year as Head of the Commonwealth.
https://twitter.com/ians_india/status/1510916313916768266/photo/2

so I relented and opened up a new account on the bird (which made me jump through several bloody hoops first) solely for the purpose of messaging #AustraliaPost about the missing parcel (because they have always been super helpful with direct messages) only to discover they now re-direct to a customer service enquiry form on their website 😠 And now I can't find the 'delete account' button to be free of the bird once again.

the day has come where I really miss my bird account. #AustraliaPost were always very responsive to enquiries and now I have no way to directly contact them about a parcel that's been sitting in a sorting facility for over a week now, bummer. The chat feature on their website is just automated and useless.

@thetiredelk . . the same elderly Australians that paid for #AustraliaPost and their effing poor service out of thier taxes for years . . . then pay again to use their rapidly degrading services.

#RippedOff #CorporateTheft #AusPol

@thetiredelk erm .. #AustraliaPost's role is two fold:
A) provide gold plated time pieces to those who's job it is to ___ post service users, for fun and profit.

B) to close local branches in knee jerk fashion, and direct all recievers to a westfield retail point of presence 'because covid' . . for 6 months longer than most other 'services', exposing thier customers to yet more risk and hardship ( in particualr, elderly Australians) who now don't recognise it as a service.

#auspost #australiapost #customsdeclaration for #parcel to #ireland. No sms, no text message, no email. 3 tries. Made a PDF of the last try, will have to take it to a #postoffice tomorrow. #nightmare

I just love how every #AustraliaPost delivery person waits less than 4.5 seconds after knocking on my front door before deciding there isn't anyone home and starting to walk off.
Even though this is a 2 storey place so it's going to take more than 4.5 seconds for someone to come down the stairs and open the door.
And they wonder why people complain about their service!

Happy Christmas to those celebrating 🎄🎉 Very nice weather in Brisbane! Have a great day and be kind 💓 #Christmas #Brisbane #australiapost