The head of the U.S. Postal Service went before Congress late last week to deliver a submission seeking help in the wake of a considerable downturn in business. While there are considerable differences between the US Postal Service and Australia Post, reading the report led me to wonder about the health of our mail delivery sevice and whether Australia Post will further increase focus on non mail delivery service revenue streams.
We recieved an Aust Post flyer in with our mail and except for a packet of envelopes there was not one other postal item in the entire catalog. With the various refits going on to post office recently they should now be known as Australia stationers or Australia newsagency, not Australia post. Poor buggers must be doing it tuff, or they want to be newsagents. They should come into our industry and set up a marketing group, it may give us more pull in Canberra