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"Posties are delivering billions of parcels and fewer letters, but Australia
Post is determined to deliver for another 200-plus years. And they hope that a
new delivery of quiet electric motor-bikes will reduce the number of attacks
from dogs provoked by noisy machines.
A “two-speed” business resulted in AusPost declaring another annual loss on
Friday, as revenue from parcels continued to grow with more than 2.5 billion
delivered each year, while letter deliveries fell to 1950s levels.
The loss of $88.5 million for the 12 months to June 30 followed a $200.3
million deficit a year earlier.
But chief executive Paul Graham said it was a “solid result” against stiff
competition from large, well-funded foreign multi-nationals and other private
operators.
“There’s an incredibly aggressive and competitive market out there – companies
like Amazon are spending billions and billions of dollars to compete,” Mr
Graham told
AAP.
Domestic parcel volumes increased by 1.8 per cent, contributing to parcels
revenue of $6.46 billion, an increase of 3.3 per cent.
“We’re holding our own,” Mr Graham said, as the bottom line improves.
“We’ve been around for 215 years and we’ve got no other goal than being around
for at least another 215 years,” he said.
Adding to the country’s largest electric delivery fleet of more than 5100
vehicles, AusPost this week plugged in 175 UBCO electric motorbikes.
Capable of reaching speeds of up to 80 km/h, the e-bikes will help electrify
routes that were previously challenging for three-wheel electric delivery
vehicles to access.
“We also think it will help us with our dog bites, because the dogs do react to
the sound of a motorbike – if they can’t hear it, maybe they won’t be curious
and come out to see what’s going on,” Mr Graham said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
