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August 2023

  • Australia Post sign

    Australia Post reports $200m annual loss, its first since 2015, amid push to close city branches

    Postal service also calls for stamp price increase as it warns its letters business lost $189.7m in first half of 2022-23

March 2023

  • Australia Post signage in Sydney

    Australia Post paid millions in bonuses to senior staff after board deemed them ‘appropriate’

    Organisation considered dropping payments after criticism by government ministers but board decided they were necessary to ‘incentivise’ senior staff
  • Jack

    Letter writing is declining in Australia, but our most prolific scribes say its fate isn’t sealed

    From Morris Gleitzman to a Sydney teenager, a small but dedicated group of Australians still find joy in snail mail
  • An old Australia Post letterbox

    No love for letters: Australia Post’s daily deliveries under review as traditional mail declines

    Questions marks sit over daily letter deliveries as government releases discussion paper on postal service

February 2023

  • A number of rural postboxes

    Return to sender: writers mourn loss of physical letters as Australia Post contemplates decline

  • Australia Post box

    Australia Post warns about long-term viability, with letters revenue in ‘unstoppable’ decline

December 2022

  • A postman on a motorbike delivers letters in Brisbane.

    double quotation markPost haste for cut-off dates: how to make sure your packages arrive on time for Christmas

    Elizabeth Quinn
    After a year of watching parcels disappear into a postal black hole, Elizabeth Quinn shares her hard-learned strategies for smoother deliveries

October 2022

  • An employee is seen at work at Australia Post parcel sorting facility

    Australia Post temporarily halts sea mail amid rise in prohibited items

    While sea mail takes a long time to deliver, people opt for this service because it is cheaper

September 2022

  • Australian postman

    Australia Post says order presents now for delivery by Christmas

    Postal service chief says recruitment has started for extra 5,000 to 7,000 workers needed in holiday peak but supply chain woes continue

August 2022

  • Anthony Albanese speaks to reporters

    Anthony Albanese to release legal advice on Scott Morrison ministries as pressure builds on former PM

    Prime minister says there is a ‘fundamental weakness in checks and balances’ and he will consider if a formal inquiry is needed

April 2022

  • Anthony Albanese

    Labor unveils $20m plan to use Australia Post trucks to find rural mobile coverage blackspots

    Data from trucks to inform locations selected for upgraded regional telecommunications across roads, homesteads and national parks

December 2021

  • Postman on red Australia Post motorcycle.

    Australia Post to phase out red motorcycles by 2025

    The familiar postie bikes will be replaced by safer and more advanced electric delivery vehicles

November 2021

  • Signage at an Australia Post outlet in Sydney

    Click Frenzy sale: Australia Post warns of delivery delays amid online shopping surge

  • People on an escalator inside the David Jones store in Melbourne

    Yuletide logjam: how supply chain woes could ruin Christmas for Australian shoppers

October 2021

  • Australia post sign

    Victorian post office licensee backs down over refusal to get Covid jab

    Angela Spedding had cited ‘freedom of choice’ for her refusal to get the vaccine but now says she has booked an appointment for next week
  • A European honey bee

    Deliveries of mail-order bees stung by pandemic postal delays

    Hold-ups unfit for a queen bee have seen them arrive at their destinations bedraggled, weak or dead, forcing a halt to shipments within Australia
  • Stock photo of an Australia Post mailbox

    Tiny Victorian town could lose its only post office as operator refuses Covid vaccine

    Angela Spedding says Australia Post told her she will have to close Merrigum post office if she does not book in for a jab by the end of the week

September 2021

  • As Australia Post experiences delivery delays, Lola Van Vorst, who oversees the dispatch of 150 parcels a week, says: ‘You just need to be ready to spend time to make the calls’

    Signed, sealed and delivered: how to send a parcel fast amid Australia Post delays

    As Covid places strain on postal services, seasoned shippers share their delivery alternatives for packages in Australia

August 2021

  • File photo of an Australia Post branch

    Hundreds of Australia Post’s senior staff receive generous bonuses

  • Former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate

    Australia Post pays former CEO Christine Holgate $1m in settlement after Cartier watch saga

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