on 30-07-2013 09:48 AM
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."
on 04-08-2013 05:01 PM
murdoch's messenger mouth col allan is dubbo-bred
you too, can grow up to be a paid political right-wing itkicker.
on 04-08-2013 05:29 PM
on 05-08-2013 07:25 AM
@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?
on 05-08-2013 10:07 AM