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

[nero_bolt]

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."

[colic2bullsgirlore]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

Another side of the story is that the very small West Dubbo post office is struggling to cope.

Many people are not being able to collect there mail for weeks at a time due to working the same hours that the post office is open.

If i send a letter to my dad and pay for a stamp, arnt i paying for a service that delivers that letter to his mail box?

Well my letter isnt getting delivered to his mail box now.

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The same thing happens everytime a parcel is carded and returned to the Post office rather than being delivered in the first

instrance In that scenario the receiver needs to pick  the parcel up at the post office even though the sender paid for delivery to a

specific address,

I believe any community pressure should be squarely aimed at the protagonists and also the authority that they disregard not a

company that takes a stand to protect their employees because of a problem that causes an unsafe workplace situation.

Because the company has made a stand the problem is receiving publicity. ( I remember about 6 weeks ago when they

threatened too... well obviously ....the situation has not got any better)

Publicity generally increases public pressure for the relevant authorities to address the problem

[daydream**believer]

this is not about parcels. This is letters, all letters.

Also, my dad knows of the woman postie that was harrassed. He says she was about 5ft tall. Why on earth did they choose a small woman to deliever to this area rather than a man.

As i said, my dad, who is 65 years old, has lived in this street for 30 years. His yard doesnt get destroyed. His garage has never been broken into. He sees these kids gangs in the street and he tell them off

[the_hawk*]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

this is not about parcels. This is letters, all letters.

Also, my dad knows of the woman postie that was harrassed. He says she was about 5ft tall. Why on earth did they choose a small woman to deliever to this area rather than a man.

As i said, my dad, who is 65 years old, has lived in this street for 30 years. His yard doesnt get destroyed. His garage has never been broken into. He sees these kids gangs in the street and he tell them off

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and if they employed a bouncer and he smacked one of these ferals he would be instantly sacked.

It happened to a bus driver out north here who was being punched, he stood up and punched the feral back and through him off the bus, instant dismisal

[polksaladallie]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

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@daydream**believer wrote:

this is not about parcels. This is letters, all letters.

Also, my dad knows of the woman postie that was harrassed. He says she was about 5ft tall. Why on earth did they choose a small woman to deliever to this area rather than a man.

As i said, my dad, who is 65 years old, has lived in this street for 30 years. His yard doesnt get destroyed. His garage has never been broken into. He sees these kids gangs in the street and he tell them off

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and if they employed a bouncer and he smacked one of these ferals he would be instantly sacked.

It happened to a bus driver out north here who was being punched, he stood up and punched the feral back and through him off the bus, instant dismisal

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Charming.

[cherry*135]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

this is not about parcels. This is letters, all letters.

Also, my dad knows of the woman postie that was harrassed. He says she was about 5ft tall. Why on earth did they choose a small woman to deliever to this area rather than a man.

As i said, my dad, who is 65 years old, has lived in this street for 30 years. His yard doesnt get destroyed. His garage has never been broken into. He sees these kids gangs in the street and he tell them off

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Such a difference in an account from someone who knows another who lives in that street, compared to the media beat up in the link in the opening post.

As for the small statured lady postie, maybe there isn't many/any other posties that will work that route because of kids gang there.

[azureline**]

Some posties are a bit precious.....

Our postie is a female and she doesn't get off her bike to knock and deliver, cards everything. If she accidently puts the wrong mail in the box, she says she didn't.

so, the neighbour in the same number but different street and I often swap mail.

My BIL is a postie, he got attacked by a tiny terrier while putting mail in a letterbox. It literally jumped 1.5m and latched onto his arm!

[cherry*135]

I used to get mail at No. 28 for No. 26 frequently. I put in a complaint with Aust post, it didn't happen again. Why should we have to rely on our neighbour, or a resident in another street to deliver our mail to the correct mailbox?

Poor BIL, az.

[daydream**believer]

What i also found interesting from the story , Today Tonight went to the resident meeting about this issue. Dubbo's deputy mayor was at that meeting, yet Today Tonight had no interest in interviewing him about the problem.

The deputy mayor even offered to talk with them but TT turned him down.

And how do i know this?

Im related to the deputy Mayor.

[just_me_karen]

Have you forgotten, you already labelled yourself. So perhaps it would be better to say you're just consolidating it.