Australia Post - Where Would We Be? (1 Viewer)

[biggles04]

THE traditional engine room of Australia Post – its letters division – is on the decline as more people turn to email or SMS to keep in touch.
Australia Post today reported a one per cent lift in net profit to $374.9 million for the 2004-05 year, off a record $4.32 billion in revenue.

But the letters division's earnings fell almost $57 million to $248.3 million.

Australia Post chairman Linda Nicholls said the impact of electronic substitution on the letters business was being felt globally.

"With our letter prices currently frozen and our costs rising with the addition of around 200,000 new addresses each year, growth in letter volume is going to be the crucial element determining our future profitability in the letters business," Ms Nicholls said.

In 1960, the letters share of the total messaging market totalled almost 50 per cent but by last year it had shrunk to 14 per cent.

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The bulk of that market is now dominated by transactional letters such as the mailing of accounts, bills, statements and cheques.

Social letters involving letters, postcards and private greetings amount to just five per cent of the market.

But Australia Post is not yet prepared to accept defeat in letters.

Where will we be when the government postal service no longer exists?
*writes new Young Communists' Party policy*

 

[7th Sign]

australia post sucks hard core over the last two weeks they have lost 2 of my packages and have no explination......im not happy at all with them.......

australia post will cover this new thing by rising prices aggain....just like usuall...

I should set up my own postage service lol any one want to loan me a few 100 million

 

[withoutaface]

Let's do a Japan and privatise the fucker.

 

[biggles04]

Let's do a Japan and privatise the fucker.

Fucking 'oath I agree.

But I'd call it a John Howard.

 

[thorrnydevil]

Australia post will always exist, until the day when someone creates a teleporter for packages and such.

 

[erawamai]

Let's do a Japan and privatise the fucker.

While you are at it you might as well privatise lighthouses, footpaths and introduce competition between hospitals.

 

[iambored]

people send so many more packages these days because of ebay

 

[bscienceboi]

people send so many more packages these days because of ebay

What if Ebay opened its own Postal Service

I mean google did it with gmail

Maybe we can be expecting some Ebay invites soon

 

[withoutaface]

While you are at it you might as well privatise lighthouses, footpaths and introduce competition between hospitals.

I disagree with privatising all hospitals, public schools, police, fire brigade, non-freeway roads, etc, but thanks for asking.

 

[biggles04]

I disagree with privatising all hospitals, public schools, police, fire brigade, non-freeway roads, etc, but thanks for asking.

Thank you again for another great post. You have sparked some Young Communist Party Policies ;]

Also thornydevil and iambored.
A very small percentage of the population frequent eBay.
If Australia Post ceases to make enough money to keep it alive, it'll be up to private companies.
Hey, I'm up for starting a postal service. Who wants to join me?

 

[erawamai]

I disagree with privatising all hospitals, public schools, police, fire brigade, non-freeway roads, etc, but thanks for asking.

You want to privatise the fire brigade? but not all of them?

 

[Wooz]

While you are at it you might as well privatise lighthouses, footpaths and introduce competition between hospitals.

Yeah lets go American and privatise everything and let them charge whatever the hell they want $$$$+ If we privatise essential services usch as hospitals a visit to the hospital would cost you atleast $200-$300 and medicare wouldnt exist because the hospitals are no longer government.

 

[withoutaface]

You want to privatise the fire brigade? but not all of them?

The all was next to hospitals and only hospitals for a reason.

 

[thorrnydevil]

Also thornydevil and iambored.
A very small percentage of the population frequent eBay.
If Australia Post ceases to make enough money to keep it alive, it'll be up to private companies.
Hey, I'm up for starting a postal service. Who wants to join me?

Australia Post is a government corporation...it will never cease to make enough money to keep it alive-it's not there to make money, it's there to serve our needs (that's why our taxes pay the wages of it's workers ;-)

You can start your postal service...and compete with FedEx, USB (whatever) and all the other postal/courier companies out there!

 

[withoutaface]

Australia Post is a government corporation...it will never cease to make enough money to keep it alive-it's not there to make money, it's there to serve our needs (that's why our taxes pay the wages of it's workers ;-)

You can start your postal service...and compete with FedEx, USB (whatever) and all the other postal/courier companies out there!

But I think those companies are forbidden from handling general post.

 

[erawamai]

The all was next to hospitals and only hospitals for a reason.

You want to privatise all hospitals?

 

[Calculon]

You want to privatise all hospitals?

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