.. and to add insult to injury the consensus on the street by the average Joe/Jone CItizen (yes I have spoken with some of them face to face about this yesterday and today) is that they don't mind paying a little bit extra if it helps auspost to make a profit .. just so frustrating that people believe the official party line that gets regurgitated in the media .. PEOPLE OF PLANET EARTH Auspost are currently making $100 MILLION DOLLARS PROFIT and have never ever run at a loss even before they were corporatised .. they are a public utility and if this insanity continues much longer will damage our economy and lead to more unemployment .. eg If the Auspost CEO gets his way stamps go up and the postie will get their hours of employment reduced, so Auspost save money in wages (I can smell another auspost CEO pay-raise for that!!) .. thus the postie will then be looking for work to supplement their wages, our mail slows to a crawl and businesses are forced to use express postage to keep customers happy etc etc .. and so it goes an endless cycle of decreasing productivity and higher costs that will be felt at every level of Australian society .. this incrementalism will eventually leave us desperate/on the government teat and beholding to the multi-national rorters who I am sure are behind the scenes cheering all this on ..