UK online bookseller Book Depository offers free shipping worldwide and cheaper book prices than stores can offer here in Oz. But what does that free postage really cost? Eloise Keating investigates.
Australia Post
Are we being gouged on delivery as well?
Not merely are Australians being ripped off by local retailers for internationally available goods, it costs more to deliver them.
Cox: it’s possible to make every post (office) a winner
The Australia Post decision-making process for closing offices is primarily commercial so I am suggesting an option for reform.
Cox: being a stamp is OK, but I’m still pushing the envelope
What does it feel like being a postage stamp? Odd, writes Eva Cox, who “accepted on behalf of the stirrers and advocates”. Even if she has to put up with the jokes about people licking her backside.
Australian banking goes postal
The re-entry of the Commonwealth Government into personal and business banking should be seriously considered, with an Australia Post-run “AussieBank” now on the cards.
Australia Post: the People’s Bank?
The big banks need to absorb more of their funding cost pressures rather than passing every rise onto the customers. With standard mail becoming a thing of the past, Australia Post should turn to banking, argues Christopher Joyce.
Australia Post stamps out raunchy Penguins
The retail arm of Australia Post has banned the sale of three literature classics amid concern over racy passages and graphic sex scenes.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Performance reviews for Fairfax bosses
Fairfax media does performance reviews, further troubles for Qantas and which towns are listed as high risk for the upcoming Victorian bushfire season?
Oz Post and Medibank the cream of the public sector earners
The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
Dead Letter Office: Australia Post’s life beyond mail
Australia Post, and its traditional postal service model, is under threat from the National Broadband Network. What should it do to remain relevant and profitable?
Tips and rumours: The good goss on Business at The Oz
Inside scoops on the real job of the Business Editor at The Oz, Australia Post, broadband speed and more.
Dead letter office: the future of Australia Post
Australia Post has been helping Australia’s junk mailers spam us for years, reports Bernard Keane in part one of a series on the future of our posties.
Tips and rumours: The great Papunya population mystery
Does Indigenous policy minister Alison Anderson have a hometown advantage? And is Oz editor Chris Mitchell finally stepping in between Nicolas Rothwell and Paul Toohey?
