Over the years, Post Offices have evolved, the Glebe Post Office succumbed to pressure from the Broadway shopping centre. The Leichhardt Post Office, has recently returned to its home after a stint in a shopping mall. I am very happy to say after a hard fought battle for a post office over 100 years ago, we still have one in Annandale. http://www.ramin.com.au/annandale/story-annandale-post-office.shtml
I regularly pay bills, post parcels and organise Passports at a Post Office. In small country towns they were the CBA. Australia Post is now doing courier/parcel deliveries for online stores. However, for some mysterious reason they won't deliver to PO Boxes and the couriers won't leave their "we missed you" cards in letter boxes. The cards (and sometimes the parcels) are left on doorsteps with instructions to collect the parcel at the local post office after 4pm. The mixture of items has always intrigued me, I once thought it was upselling people to post a gift to a loved one...but now I am not sure. The mobile phones make historical sense. Though, an enquiry about Phone books, a few years ago, brought a retort that Telstra is now a private business. The printers, USBs and stationary are an obvious extension, particulary when a the Post Office outlet is in a Newsagent. Otherwise, interesting (good/bad?/unfair?)competition with local newsagent small businesses. Marghanita Frank O'Connor wrote: > It'll be interesting to see where Australia Post goes over the next few years, but I'd be sad to see my local disappear. They seem to do humungous business (even out in the boondocks like here), and often have more clientele than many of the local major shops. Robin Whittle wrote: > Jan wrote of the UK Royal Mail: >> barbecue grill to a jellyfish aquarium. That is not a joke. > > Today I saw at the local Australia Post outlet (formerly thought of as a > Post Office) a shelf of chocolates, jelly beans and I think bottles of <snip> -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
