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."

[cherry*135]

 I know the area well. I've been going to Dubbo for years.. and years, it has good shops.

That makes me LOL. The author of that statement proclaimed to know my area well (incorrectly) also recently.

[spotweldersfriend]

Maybe they meant good shops....compared with Tibooburra.

[just_me_karen]

That's exactly what I meant, spot lol.

[cherry*135]

Visitng shops in a city with a population of 40 000+ on occasions, means you know everything that goes on in every street in that city... I see.

[izabsmiling]

Well I don't see .Which post claims that Am3 ? I'm sure that I've read them properly and all 

[daydream**believer]

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@am*3 wrote:

Visitng shops in a city with a population of 40 000+ on occasions, means you know everything that goes on in every street in that city... I see.

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exactly.

Apparently driving past an area in the city makes you an expert as well

[izabsmiling]

means you know everything that goes on in every street in that city... I see.

I'm trying to work out how anyone actually thinks it's possible for anyone to know everything that goes on in 1 Street (even their own) let alone quote " every street in that city" ?

[just_me_karen]

I have a lot of friends there (but none in that suburb) and have spent quite a lots of time working there (in that suburb lol), going to conferences and training etc. another day I'll tell you about the conference held at the zoo... at night... and the monkey attack 😄

[the_hawk*]

Do people have car trouble in Dubbo ?

[just_me_karen]

What kind of car trouble, hawk?