The PO largely got themselves in this situation as laid out by previous posters. I wonder what part of “we don’t need you” the postmaster does not understand?

… in not ‘delivering’ mail

- Also as a result of that same 2009 legislation and the inflexibility demonstrated by the BPS in returning mail because of ‘minor mailing infractions’ I bet they are dealing with a significantly smaller volume of mail and as such less revenue as well!! Much more than the 15% lower staffing levels can offset in savings I would bet, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Case in point; prior to 2009, 99% of our billing/payments was sent to clients & vendors using the BPS, today and since about 2011 we now send 99% of our Billing and letters via email and vendors payments via online banking. You can bet many more small and large businesses locally who quickly became fed up with the BPS’s actions did similar. There was far too much undelivered mail and mail that was never returned to the sender because of those ‘minor mailing infractions and or disputes over mail box locations’.

Keeping in mind I would bet much of that mail could still have been delivered without too much extra cost even if large amounts needed extra sorting/confirmation by the probably largely blameless BPS ‘delivery’ staff who would have known exactly who the mail was intended for despite the minor infractions. Certainly this was no more expensive than the vast amounts of money that would have been spent ‘returning it to sender’, particularly any that was overseas mail, which is exactly what my friends in the BPS have confirmed by the way.

Congrats on the improvements though, sighs.

If you don’t cross your Ts your mail won’t be delivered
If you don’t dot your I’s then your mail will be returned to you
If I need to get off my bike you won’t get your mail
If you want to go back in time, visit any post office
If you are sending a large mailing THE CUSTOMER needs to sort the mail by post code and have it in order before the post office will deal with it
If you want nasty attitude visit the Warwick post office
If you want you mail to get overseas late…use the post office
If if you want to see someone give you service who thinks they are doing you a favor visit the post office

The post office delivers more junk mail than mail we want, they are another victim of the Internet bust refuse to recognize that fact, The post office has had it’s chance to help but only threw road blocks in our way so I vote YES for a reduction