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

nero_bolt
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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."

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There isn't many places where anti social behaviour hasn't infiltrated. Every night in suburbs of Sydney there's shootings, murders, bashings, glassing it's not confined to country towns, the Gold Coast and Surfers are a haven for bikies and their drug dealing stand over behaviour.

 

So what's new?

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

There isn't many places where anti social behaviour hasn't infiltrated. Every night in suburbs of Sydney there's shootings, murders, bashings, glassing it's not confined to country towns, the Gold Coast and Surfers are a haven for bikies and their drug dealing stand over behaviour.

 

So what's new?


Ah, Freddie, but we have the R word here.

 

That's what is new.

 

How long will this post of mine last?   Smiley Tongue

 

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Hopefully longer than mine.  I have not got a message from the mods yet but I'm sure it's on the way.

 

Naughty me, I quoted someone

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@the_hawk* wrote:

guess what nero, thats what happens when people have too much time and no work, thats why GMH needs to be kept going and its really a cheap investment


I looked up GMH and it means "give me hope" but that is obviusly not what you mean, please explain ?


Keep it nice, I might cry if you write anything upsetting (like not)
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I grew up on the street  in Dubbo that the posties wont deliver to.

My dad still lives in that same street.

He has lived in the same house on that same street for near 30 years.

His house has been broken into once in all those years.

He admits there are some problem families in the street, there always has been.

The problems they cause is that they let their kids, most aged between 6 and 12, run wild in the street.

Dad has no problem with them. If they bother him he just tells them to flip off.

 

The street ia actually mostly full of pensioners.

And now those pensioners have to go to the post office to collect their mail.

 

Shame on Australia Post

 

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@newstart2380 wrote:

@the_hawk* wrote:

guess what nero, thats what happens when people have too much time and no work, thats why GMH needs to be kept going and its really a cheap investment


I looked up GMH and it means "give me hope" but that is obviusly not what you mean, please explain ?


Your kidding, right

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I'm one of the thickos who can't pick sarcasm online, so just in case you are serious, new start, I'm guessing GMH is General Motors Holden.
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@the_hawk* wrote:

@newstart2380 wrote:

@the_hawk* wrote:

guess what nero, thats what happens when people have too much time and no work, thats why GMH needs to be kept going and its really a cheap investment


I looked up GMH and it means "give me hope" but that is obviusly not what you mean, please explain ?


Your kidding, right


No, I really don't know what you mean


Keep it nice, I might cry if you write anything upsetting (like not)
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@newstart2380 wrote:

@the_hawk* wrote:

@newstart2380 wrote:

@the_hawk* wrote:

guess what nero, thats what happens when people have too much time and no work, thats why GMH needs to be kept going and its really a cheap investment


I looked up GMH and it means "give me hope" but that is obviusly not what you mean, please explain ?


Your kidding, right


No, I really don't know what you mean


http://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/Yet-more-handouts-another-118-000-per-Holden-job/m-...

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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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