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@2106greencat wrote:

Just had a thought that none of the AP's bright 'pay for delivery' idea makes a lot of sense to me.

 

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I have a PO Box and was wondering the same thing as you.

When AP staff are sorting PO Box mail on Tues and Thurs will they put letters/parcels aside for PO Box holders who have chosen 3 day a week delivery?

If anyone can post a link to any articles regarding 3 day a week delivery OR paid-for delivery then please do.  I would like to read more about this bright idea (or maybe Alice could come by and enlighten us).

maybe in the future the postie will do 3 day work  doing 12 hour shifts so they are doing their normal hours over a week

While it will probably extend to all mail, AP are probably thinking parcel deliveries over standard mail, much of which isn't delivered by the normal postie and is likely to have greater import placed on it by the recipient (who will be shelling out the $'s for 5-day delivery). 

TBH, I think AP have already been doing this to a certain extent for a number of years. I noticed that before I got my PO box, my parcels seemed to only arrive on certain days, all bundled together as though they were collected for a couple of days before being delivered (it was more noticable then because I ordered packages sporadically, but they never arrived sporadically). A similar pattern is noticable with my PO box, though slightly less so, as I do sometimes get parcels on Mondays and Wenesdays (the trip to the PO is much more likely to be worth the effort on Tuesdays and Thurdays, though - Fridays are 50-50).