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."

[the_hawk*]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
What kind of car trouble, hawk?

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Hmm thinking about lock issues and wiring

[just_me_karen]

Ok I get it. You're trying to harass me because my car was stolen.

It didn't happen in Dubbo... and I think you've just hit rock bottom. Low post, hawk.

[the_hawk*]

I dont know what your talking about, I was just asking if people have car problems in Dubbo and you asked what sort so I replied in a nice way. 

[izabsmiling]

shake the chip off.

[cherry*135]

..the rate of theft from motor vehicles in Dubbo had more than doubled in the two-year period to September 2012. 

"The vast majority of thefts from motor vehicles are from unlocked cars," Orana Local Area Command (LAC) Detective Inspector Rod Blackman said.

"This is despite our ongoing campaigns for people to lock their vehicles."

Statistics from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) show there were 677 thefts from motor vehicles in the Dubbo Local Government Area (LGA) in the year to September 2012.

The figure represented a 101.5 per cent increase on the previous reporting period two years earlier.

Not sure how those figures compare with other cities the same size.

[the_hawk*]

AM3 there a few towns that are far worse, its advise on some of the nomads sites that you shoulnt even stop to refuel in some towns things are so bad.

[azureline**]

We live in a reasonably nice suburb, no real issues apart from hoons occasionally using the street as a raceway.... and an incident with graffiti on our fence

Last night somebody's children egged our front patio guttering and ran off laughing. What they don't know is, we have video surveilance of our entrances........and it was turned on 🙂

I can see some 12/13 yo's in some trouble with their parents.....

[icyfroth]

The race card trumps all

[donnashuggy]

Which race?

[acacia_pycnantha]

The racing away with squealing tyres after they've laid two strips of rubber in your driveway?