Australian Newsagency Blog

At 2 pm today in my shopping mall the government owned PostShop, where more than 70% of floor space is dedicated to Christmas gifts and the like, closed for the day. Small businesses like mine are not allowed to close. Our lease precludes it. The PostShop can close because it’s government owned and an essential service. While I doubt I would want to close, my point is that the management of Australia Post uses its essential service facilities when it wants and ignores them when it wants. Independent businesses do not have that luxury.