It is not as simple as hiring more people Chameleon.

Back when Covid reared it's ugly head early last year the depot where my husband was working from (StarTrack in inner south western Sydney) had a sorting machine that could sort 10 times the amount of parcels that could be taken by the couriers on any one day.

It was quite a juggling act to arrange the sorting tables to take into account the safe distancing rules......there is simply no room to put any more bodies to work.

After the early morning StarTrack couriers left, the space was taken over by trucks and vans delivering for Officeworks.

Most of the AP facilities that we know of are in the same position......there is just no room to increase the staff, despite the huge increase in the volume of parcels.

Nothing has changed in 18 months.....there is still no room to increase the number of bodies in the facilities and no other suitable buildings to open more distribution centres withing a suitable distance.