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@dazzledayz wrote:

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Let's say we have 4000 posties nation wide (AP employs 36000 staff overall).

 

If each carried one small parcel per shift, at the $2 per item parcel courier rate, that would amount to over $2,000,000 pa that is currently on the Parcel ledger rather than that of  the letter business.

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But how would your hypothesis work out if you base it on real life.....Australia Post certainly does not pay anything like $2 for parcel contractor/courier rates.

The current rate is $1.35 and if it cannot be delivered and has to be returned to the Post Office they get $1.35 for that drop no matter how many parcels are involved.

In some areas contractors can deliver as few as 50 parcels in a day.....would you like to live on $67.50 a day and pay your own tax and superannuation?

The average run is usually about 80-100 deliveries a day....even $108-$135 a day is not a lot to live on, pay your own tax and superannuation and fuel.

Couriers and contractors in highly populated areas like large cities are not too badly off, but think of those in the rural and semi rural areas where it takes a lot longer to drive between deliveries.

As far as giving one parcel to the postie per run....posties would be happy to deliver that one parcel but what is the point in giving them parcels that are never going to fit in a normal sized letterbox.

My postie has always delivered small parcels that will fit in the letterbox.....large letters, CDs, DVDs etc, but now he is arriving with quite large parcels such as complete series of DVDs.  In the past, these would have been delivered by the contractor and safe dropped in a place that has been used for safe drop for years.   Now I have to go to the post office to collect my "small" parcels.

These days I am getting quite a few items with damaged packaging at the very least because they are being stuffed into a letter box that is too small to take it.....and I have the largest letter box that I can find....A4.