HELLO what about all the PARCELS?!?! The parcels that we usually need ASAP.
One would have thought that the GREATER volume of parcels sent nowadays would well account for the fewer letters!!

The meaning being the only change proposed is 5 or 6 day delivery (99.88%) going to 3 day delivery.

Existing addresses with 2 or 3 day delivery will not have frequency reduced

There seems to be a contradiction within the document.

You are owed $1200 rent and you are worried about $5.60 for a courier, which is a business cost anyway, dear oh dear.

Not just that, he’s overstated the cost of sending something by courier. My A5 trackpacks with CourierPost cost about $3.11+GST. And they’d probably be cheaper if I bought in higher volumes. I don’t know how much the DLE size cost (standard envelope size), because I’ve never bought them, but they’ll be even less. And next day delivery too with track and trace. (RD costs more of course, and track and trace is only to the RD delivery person).

Oh yes, and it’s now 70c to post a letter, not 50c.

Express Couriers Ltd, through its brands CourierPost, Pace, Contract Logistics and Roadstar, is New Zealand’s leading express courier, logistics and distribution business

I’m not suggesting they’re the most reliable in the country, merely that Post has been doing that for decades.

This is a good summary. http://www.nzpost.co.nz/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/annual%20reports/annual-report-2012.pdf

At least, unlike US Postal Service, NZPost isn’t being required to forward-fund its superannuation liabilities to the point where it has enough to cover employees that it hasn’t even employed yet, I think it might be employees who haven’t even been born. This is, as designed by whichever the politicians who came up or were instructed to come up with that scheme, driving USPS out of business. That IS what’s happening over there, look it up. And when you have, ask yourself: why are the politicians doing that?

I fear for your business if you are relying on the ‘mail’, -seriously -email, couriers, or get in the car yourself and drop it off.

You are owed $1200 rent and you are worried about $5.60 for a courier, which is a business cost anyway, dear oh dear.

Put in the rental contract that 14 day notices can be emailed or faxed ( a fax clause can be put in to purchase agreements so no problems with a rental,tough shit if the tenant doesn’t clear his email, you can prove its been sent.

The major issue here is the proposal to reduce 2, 3 and 4 day a week delivery services to only one day a week.

Farmers generally seek equivalence – thus if posties deliver only 3 days, they will accept 3 days. It can be argued that to support the rural sector attract workers etc we need to maintain services, thus 2 day should remain 2 day and 3-6 day should have at least 3 day service.

Thus 2 runs over the 6 days might then involve over-time unless they were shortened (creating some extra runs or there could be changes to the work practice, using transferred staff to sort mail for posties in larger centres).

However if there were 3 universal delivery days – there would be simply be 3 longer periods of time taken to deliver. Instead of 6 days of 6-7 hours. 3 days of 8-10 hours etc. Of course if the mail weight was then too much then some extra runs could be created or mechanised delivery used.

“Q: Isn’t the growth in parcel deliveries compensating for the fall in letter mail?

A: No. There is good growth in the parcels market with the increase in online shopping, the impact of TradeMe and „e -tailing‟. But our postal business relies on big volumes.

Parcels currently make up just 2.5% of our mail volumes.

Over the next five years parcel volumes are forecast to increase by 8.5 million items while letter volumes are forecast to fall by 216.5 million (meaning a net change in total mail volumes from 835 million to 627 million).
The increase in revenue from 8.5 million parcels won‟t cover the loss in revenue from 216.5 million letter items.”

http://www.nzpost.co.nz/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/deed-of-understanding-questions-answers.pdf

Oh i didnt realise the impact it would have on you. in that case the govt should cover the losses. that will keep your business costs down seems FAIR

I will say though, as a small town contract postie, there is no way that volumes have dropped so far for me to be doing it only 3 days a week. 4 at the absolute outside….5 for there to be an even spread of mail without working at least a couple of days for 10+ hours. It would mean 2 full cycles of 2 runs per day, kinda silly really. Try cycling 16 kms a day (effectively 30 kms for two cycles of 2 runs if cut down to 3 days) for over 300 days a year, you get worn down. Using a scooter will make it even less profitable than it already is.

Granted, other places may have a similar setup to enable deliveries to be done more cost effectively….just not here.

There is no post shop here, so I sort & deliver from the back of a local business. So already a small footprint on that business for a small rental cost…no bricks & mortar to piss around with & pay for. I doubt they’d really want to sacrifice more of their businesses space for a service which is not remotely connected to their core activities…it’s situated there, for a pittance really, to provide a service for the town. Kiosks, which would necessarily be situated in the middle of residential areas, increase mail security risks & vandalism points.

As for RD deliveries, they won’t change. The volume of articles (not just mail but junk mail, news papers & other items) is as large and as essential (mostly) as the old days. Those guys would be working round the clock for 3 days in many cases in order to try & meet a 3 day working week….won’t be possible. Some ignorance from city folk here, farmers get a shitload of mail, real mail like bills, etc……no idea at all DPF. That’s what you get from reports by pen pushers who ignore the people at the coal face….fucking numbers.

NZ Post employs about 7000 staff in its mail division including about 2200 posties. So nearly 5000 other mail staff (not sure how much are in admin/management).

The key decision is whether they still deliver all 6 days (with 2 3 day delivery runs) or go with 3 universal delivery days (posties becoming part-timers working 3 6 hour days). If the latter, they can also make cuts to other staffing in mail sorting and mail transportation to support the 3 days mail is actually delivered (rather than support for a full 6 day delivery system).

What days are chosen with 3 universal days is a decision that has not been signalled and would interest some. MWF or TTS?

Maybe NZ post should do the same.

Or will they remain 6 day a week full-time and have two runs each week?

If the former, they now work c6 hours over 6 days – will they work longer days (8 or 10 hours), or just 18 hours a week?

.12% of addresses? Are these RD’s already restricted to one day a week or is there a proposal to reduce RD service more regular than one day down to one day (say three day down to one day).

Most RD’s are 6 or 5 days. Even going down to 3 day is a major change – given the RD service provides more than just mail.

IMO, RD service (three to 6 day) now should be at the same delivery (3 times) as urban address.

Also, my local Post Shop said Trade Me has seen an explosion in the number of parcels they process across the counter. Does NZ Post make any mention in their discussion document of this increasing revenue stream?

And I think it is fitting that Cullen the Destroyer should preside over the demise of our once great postal service.