amazing  where do i say 1000s of houses mmmm   my street alone has 300 houses allow for units prob 500 for a start , and the postie does all the off streets as well , and a lot of the times you get a letter to the household so everyone gets those,   so a 1000 letters would prob happen on some runs   my street alone 500  and he delivers to more than my street and what about the shopping centre  how many letters do you think the small supermarket gets.

According to Australia Post

Posties deliver to 900 – 1,200 delivery points every day

12.6 million letters to 11.3 million addresses across Australia every day (1.1/address)

A Postal Delivery Officer (Postie) earns on average $22.92/hour (cf CEO $approx $1500/hr)

The above indicates it costs approx 19.8 cents / indivdual delivery in Postal Delivery Officer (Postie) wages. There is then the cost of moving mail between mail centres on top.

thank you for the answere    i mean theres new apartments in brunswick alone that has 410 apartments  in 1 block .

as usual in the paper there are complaints  about the post, but the cartoonn was a good one today.

with the big boses around the table

[the only good thing about our deliveries being so slow is that the complaint letters take longer to get to us]

Anyone who pays tax is a pseudo share holder in AP. The fact that the country is cutting medical services before cutting the AP fat cats wages is galling for most I think. The crux is the fact the guy has run a profitible business into the ground, not whatever religious denomination he is. Although, using a family run trust as a tax dodge for his "donations" is on the nose, as it would be for anyone.

 "Australian taxpayers pay more than $4 million each year to someone to run a publicly owned utility that is performing terribly". And that Fahour is paid many times more than the head of the US Postal Service. "Fahour's salary isn't merely high, it's completely off the scale." Twenty of his executives are on packages worth more than $500,000, four of them earning more than $1.2 million each." This is from an interview in the Sydney Herald.

This coupled with the polies Canberra bubble thinking that they can fly a chopper and RAF planes for personal transport is half the countries deficit, not to forget golden credit card for the dinners and lunches.

But for those of us who pay for postage and have to PICK UP our mail ourselves AP sucks. The cost of a PO box because we have no locals delivery is excessive and I recently cancelled ours .

I have to collect my mail over the counter so my mail is not delivered and I do not get what I pay for . Delivery to the nearest PO is not the same .

There are so many cases like mine , many country towns do not have mail deliveries.

While the $1 letter rate sounds like a good deal considering the costs involved , the other Letter Rates went up as well so AP could take advantage of items being posted that are purchased online etc .

I'm glad I stopped selling online , there's no money in it now . AP isn't only killing off it's own business it effectlively killed of many small ones as well.