Aus Post Inbox & Outbox

[arnl7178]

I wish Aus Post would pick up parcels and letters as well as deliver them.

Two letter boxes out the front, an inbox and an outbox would be *FABULOUS*.

That way, I can avoid this horrible hot weather! LOL

Don't they have that in the US?

[thecatspjs]

As I live in an inner metro area with my local PO 25m down the street, I don't require such a service - BUT it certainly makes sense for regional and rural areas and the additional work would improve national productivity generally and it might create some jobs in the process too

[putney32]

As I live in an inner metro area with my local PO 25m down the street, I don't require such a service - BUT it certainly makes sense for regional and rural areas and the additional work would improve national productivity generally and it might create some jobs in the process too

to say nothing of DOUBLING our postal charges,

as I too live only a very short distance to a PO I do not want to subsidise regional and rural AP customers any more than I do already, thank you.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

to say nothing of DOUBLING our postal charges,

as I too live only a very short distance to a PO I do not want to subsidise regional and rural AP customers any more than I do already, thank you.

Yep, would definitely lead to higher prices for all.

Imagine the poor country postie who may travel 200km on his/her rounds each day as residences may be 5km apart in places.  Imagine having to lug around parcels and letters that they have to pick up along the way.  I think service would drop, not improve.

I do live in a regional area.  I don't have streetside delivery of mail, and I don't have a letterbox.  That aside, why shouldn't my city cousins subsidise me for choosing to live in the country? 😉 :^O

[***super_nova***]

Yep, would definitely lead to higher prices for all.

Imagine the poor country postie who may travel 200km on his/her rounds each day as residences may be 5km apart in places.  Imagine having to lug around parcels and letters that they have to pick up along the way.  I think service would drop, not improve.

..... and imagine that as you leave all you eBay sold parcels in your "OUT" box situated by the road km from your house and somebody else but the postie would collect them.  Definitely bad idea, which ever way you look at it.

[leader-of-the-band]

..... and imagine that as you leave all you eBay sold parcels in your "OUT" box situated by the road km from your house and somebody else but the postie would collect them.  Definitely bad idea, which ever way you look at it.

imagine a PayPal clause that would say something like:

Parcels left in the outbox at your residence for collection by the Postal Service are not covered by PayPal's Seller Protection. 

and then sellers coming to the boards saying "But I took a photo of it in my outbox to prove posting"  :^O

Still a bad idea for posting of eBay items.

[arnl7178]

I wasn't serious guys.

I was just feeling lazy that particular day because it was so hot, and I had parcels to deliver and wished the postie would pick them up for me lol.

haha Phorum Junkie. I can imagine this poor postie traveling along, all lop-sided from all these eBay parcels he's picking up along the way.

I also wouldn't way to pay extra for the service, or especially charge buyers more because I didn't get off my butt and post them myself. I was just simply saying how wonderful it would be to have that service, with no extra charge, for the lazy bones like me. (I'm not rural either btw). 

[zanadoo_56]

I hate the long queues at my post office.  In the good old days the post office was in the local general store.  I'd come home from work, there would be a card to collect a parcel and I could just get back into the car and drive to the shop to get it - at all hours.  If the shop was still open at 10pm the post office would be too.  Brilliant.

Unfortunately we now have a 'proper post office' in a shopping mall with all that it entails - limited opening hours during the week, difficulty finding a parking space, not open Saturday afternoons, no Sunday service at all, long queues...and not surprising on occasions, some very surly staff.....

It was the worst thing ever closing down the sub agency.  What a price we paid for 'progress'. Sigh.

[thecatspjs]

to all the naysayers 😛 😛 😛

Australia Post already collect millions of parcels from premises for an additional charge on a user pays basis - if mail is already being delivered it makes sense that it could be collected too.