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."

[azureline**]

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@am*3 wrote:

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.

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BIL, is ok, no damage but he was a bit shocked, to say the least, my sis gives him heaps about it!

I did ask the postie to be more aware but she refused to believe she did it, I made a complaint and still nothing. So, I can live with it, my sister mows my lawn and postie has worn a furrow in it, sis sent her a message to tell her to ride on the road? and stop ruining the grass.

[daydream**believer]

So, a tv show reports on a problem but we are not allowed to discuss the real facts of the story?

No wonder i only pop in here a couple of days a week now

[azureline**]

[freddie*rooster]

What happened?

Did your post get deleted or moved DDB?

[daydream**believer]

it was deleted freddie

[*elizabeths-mum*]

What an odd link. I clicked on it and after being asked to sign in was told:

Access Denied

Sorry, you do not have sufficient privileges for that action.

Please click the Back button on your browser.

Return to my original page

[*elizabeths-mum*]

The discussion was becoming pretty racist. I think quite a lot of posts were removed.

Given the melting pot we are, to blame one race for a fault or a behaviour makes me think of a married couple looking at their children and each thinking the bad features came from the other parent and the good from themselves. 

[daydream**believer]

Do you live in the streets that the story is about elizabeths mum?

[*elizabeths-mum*]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

Do you live in the streets that the story is about elizabeths mum?

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No I don't. Do you have the family tree of every offender and a degree in anthropology so as to be able to ascertain which racial characteristics are causing the behaviours?

[izabsmiling]

I doubt the moderators care what Street we live in