Australia Post’s letter business has been in terminal decline, but its ‘community service obligations’ mean it has to find a way to keep delivering them.
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University
Australia Post is losing hundreds of millions of dollars on letters delivery. People just don’t need a daily postal service like they used to.
The sections of the Senate inquiry report dealing with Australia Post’s future should be the most interesting. But they are the least satisfying.
Christine Holgate’s new job will cost Australia Post, and Australian taxpayers.
Australia Post has long yearned to be freed from its obligation to deliver letters daily. With the COVID-19 pandemic it has been given that chance.
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