@yeoldecoinco wrote:
I agree, it is not right.
$70,000 is the average yearly full time salary these days and a lot of people get MUCH less than that.
The guy driving the van works physically harder than the CEO and you could employ about 68 drivers for 4.8 million.
The CEO gets 4.8 million for what? To cry poor, sack workers, basically lie, and massively increase the postage costs.
Australia Post lie, because they know that their OVERALL business is profitable.
Parcels have made them a lot of money since the rise of the Internet.
Letters and the post are a vital national, public service, to rip off pensioners and the poor with such massive price increases, whilst gouging out huge salaries in the supposed "public" service is immoral and wrong.
Whilst they cannot even cancel the stamps used on the mail properly.
Write to your local politician. I am.
Unfortunately your local federal representative will only have a good laugh as both major parties agree with the principle of corporatisating state assets.
This appears to be a legacy of Thatcherism and is particularly prevalent in conservative ranks, though not exclusively so.
The unfortunate thinking behind the rise of letter postage rates will probably have the effect of pushing more purchasers of small, low cost items, into the arms of O/S distributors.
These benefit from subsidised postal rates and actually represent a loss to AP as they do not collect the full cost of distribution.
(they can, but don't, which I can only put down to minsterial level political motives)
3 signatories to the UPU convention reserve the right to pass on the full cost - Aus, NZ and Canada
I fully expect to see the letter service continue to show a loss even after the redundancies the new system is destined to impose.
If you have a read of the ACCC Draft Submissions Paper you will realise that the whole intent of "Priority" charges is to drive as many users as possible to the slower service, not to recoup costs.
This will allow AP to save considerable monies by elimination (or very heavy reduction of) Mail Centre nightshift staff.
(read mass sackings here).
Add to this the reduction in delivery workers ie letter posties, who will be doing multiple runs as letter deliveries migrate to periodic rather than daily and you can see where the logic of AP executive mangaement is heading.
This would also explain AP's rather heavy recent investments in automated sorting equipment and concenration of activities into larger "more efficient" mega centres like Sunshine West and Chullora which we all know has been a resounding success, no?
Machines do a much better job than humans after all, don't they? Or take holidays, or sick leave, or leave loading etc etc
Or pump cash back into the local economy either.
It's all rather sad really but AP are only doing what the rest of the corporate world is racing towards in this brave new world of what many commenators are labelling "Free Market Fundamentalism".
This neoconservative paradigm seems to be quite helpful to executive salaries and bonuses so it must indeed be good, right?
Gordon Gecko seems to be alive and well and probably offering corporate consulting services under an assumed name lol
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