During a period of record unemployment, particularly among the young and low skilled, it feels like there might have been an alternate solution to this problem:
Bill’s Opinion
Presumably, that increased demand has a concomitant revenue increase?
So, unless Australia Post are running metropolitan domestic deliveries at a loss, surely the obvious response would be to hire a lot of temporary workers to walk the streets, pushing those red trollies, delivering letters and parcels?
Of course, one the reasons this hasn’t happened is because Australia Post is staffed with somnambulant and low IQ civil servants (yes, I know it’s been privatised, but the workforce and management hasn’t radically changed).
It’s a bit difficult to pay a $5 million annual salary to the CEO if the money from stamp sales is used pay for delivering the mail.
(Just a thought)
“Delivery frequency in rural and remote locations will not be affected”
Visionary decision-making. To save money, we will stop making the least-expensive deliveries, in favour of continuing the most-expensive. True brilliance, that.