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Please bare with me as the following has a lot to with Aust. Post (not their fault, but doesn't help).
Remember that ebay purchase you made from Hong Kong or China, with the 'free post'? You know that $1 purchase sent from there, INCLUDING post? Yep, post from their side is free - all companies there are State owned, so they don't charge post between each other. So Aust Post is left to kick the can for this blatant disregard of the international postal agreement that each country charges post on their own side of the fence and every other country then receiprocates the service. But, this 'in kind' service wears thin if the delivery service (here Aust Post) does the leg work effectively for free. Now multiply these parcel deliveries by hundreds of thousands per year - someone needs to pay...
Even though this is a receiprocal service, do you think your Postie will be happy with all this leg work knowing that the international agreement is being ditched? Everyone in the postal chain gets cheesed off.
Another is the $3million pay packet the Aust Post CEO gets!!! Doesn't help with morale either...
These are just little bits that all add up in needling workers, and make things more expensive for us.
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