@tradingaccount2 wrote:OK, I may be the Devils Advocate here but I woiuld like to question the ongoing continuous attacks on AP.
When you talk about large letters are you actually talking about letters, or items/products being sent using the loophole of large letters? If the answer is yes, then, well what would you expect?
Your using a sytem that was buit and designed to send "LARGE LETTERS". Exactly that. Now, I know and I do too, have used the system and complied by sending products through the Large Letter facility. I think its a bit rich for the complaints and attacks on AP when your using a facility to send products!
My selling account sends 20 to 30 articles a week, Large letters and Parcel Post. I NEVER NEVER get issues as they are all tracked, arrive well and truely ahead of time. I have a 2pm same day despatch. You order Monday generally NSW/Vic/QLD you will have by wed/thu, and im in north coast NSW/.
So maybe its time for alot in my opinion, to look at what and how they do send items, and ask the question, 1) Would my custiomers be happy to not track an item. 2) Am I using the right system to send products that Im selling around the country.
For me LARGE LETTERS are for exactly that, LARGE LETTERS.
Think outside the square!
I'm not sure I follow the logic behind this post.... 
Are you suggesting that what's inside a package that meets the specifications of 'Large letter', can and does have a bearing on how fast Australia Post should deliver it? And that if one sends something other than a letter (in the traditional sense) they should expect extended delays because.... well, I couldn't quite determine the 'why'.
True, Australia Post have two different systems for sorting letter mail. The first was designed primarily for small letters (small letters have more restrictions, can only be a max of 5mm thick, and are supposed to be flexible), but can also accomodate large letters if they're in paper envelopes and also flexible - i.e. their sorting machines.
Large letters that are in more rigid envelopes, thicker padded mailers and / or are not flexible are not sorted this way because they would damage the machine, and the packages, but that is the way it has been for years, with virtually no discernable difference in delivery times between small and large letters, maybe a day at most, until now.
That is much more suggestive of an Australia Post problem than a problem with what people are using 'Large Letters' to send. (And just to add a hypothetical, what if 'Large Letter' wasn't called large letter at all, but, say, 'small packet' instead, like a similar service some international postal service have, because like Aus Post, the contents aren't actually restricted to literally "letters" - don't restrict your thinking by what Aus Post call this service, or - as you said yourself - think outside the square, or rectangle as most letters tend to be that shape 😉 ).
