Australia Post Privatised

[billexploited]

Should Australia Post Be Privitised and will postage costs come down and allow more competition any thoughts?

[lyndal1838]

If it is privatised you will never be free of price rises.

[chameleon54]

PLEEEEASE NOOOOOO   !!!!!!!!!!, I know we bag poor old Ausie post on the forums quite a bit, but a privatised company with a total monopoly scares the pants off me. Currently employed, private ausie post parcel delivery contractors are already struggling to provide the service we expect on the rates they are paid and you would expect delivery times and services to fall further if privatised. You only need to look at services such as Victorian railways, South Australian power companies etc. to see some serious price rises and in Vic rails case, closure or complete failure of country services once privatised. Other countries and states have already tried the privatised post experiment and failed miserably. ( View Americas fragmented and financially broke postal system ) Qantas is another current example of a state owned icon driven into the ground by privatisation.

[chameleon54]

Just to clarify, The American Postal service is still state owned but faces intense competition from private companies such as Fed ex etc. This has fragmented services and pushed the American postal service into multi billion dollar losses anually. To try to stay viable they have closed many thousands of post offices and cut services dramatically. Parcel delivery costs have still risen at an alarming rate. As mentioned the extra competition has simply fragmented the entire system.

[davewil1964]

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@billexploited wrote:

Should Australia Post Be Privitised and will postage costs come down and allow more competition any thoughts?

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No.

AP only have a monopoly on letters, so the rest of the postal market is de facto privatised anyway. The issue is couriers won't provide the same level of service for similar money. For example, they don't have depots in almost every suburb.