Welcome to Dubbo and its huge social problems... Streets with no mail

nero_bolt
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Welcome to Dubbo..... 

 

Full video and story here and its well worth watching.

 

http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/latest/article/-/18206017/streets-with-no-mail/

 

We've all heard of neighborhoods where it's not safe for a female to walk alone at night, but what about one where it's unsafe, 24-hours a day?

 

For more than 200 hundred years Australia's posties have delivered on a promise - to get the mail through, rain, hail or shine - but a post office in Dubbo can no longer deliver on that promise.

 

The job has become so dangerous that they've been through four posties in just twelve months.

 

Now the New South Wales suburb of West Dubbo is home to the streets with no mail. Eight blocks and more than 200 homes have been given a mail ban, meaning each and every resident now has to collect their mail from the post office.

 

Patrick Williams from Australia Post says the latest attack on a female worker was the final straw that led to the decision to stop mail deliveries.

 

According to Mr Williams the postal workers were "getting rocks thrown at them, people (were) accosting them, threatening them, abusing them, touching property - we just will not tolerate it.

 

"Our postie was out there, they were accosted by some individuals who touched the motorcycle, turned it off. We also had an article that went missing, there was also some threats made to our postie, and we just will not tolerate that."

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murdoch's messenger mouth col allan is dubbo-bred

 

you too, can grow up to be a paid political right-wing   itkicker.

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I voted labor in a small town out that way, Eloi... and my friends employed to run the polling booth came running up to me later to tell me they'd found my voting paper... I think I was the only one at that booth
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@not_an_eloi wrote:

 

 

murdoch's messenger mouth col allan is dubbo-bred

 

you too, can grow up to be a paid political right-wing   itkicker.


Who is Col Allen?

 

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