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Spread over nearly 8 million square km
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32,000 full time employees
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4,000 postal outlets
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Delivers to about 8 million addresses every working day
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Generates $370 million a year
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Comprised of 6 business groups, these are:
1) Letters, bulk mail and advertising mail
2) Parcels up to 30kg
3) Letters and parcels bound for other countries
4) Special business services, bill payments, money orders and electronic mail
5) Stamps and other postal related collectables
6) Production of stamps by Sprintpak
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Volume of letters increases by 3-4 percent each year despite
growing competition from e-mail. The growth is due mostly to businesses,
as people are writing less, preferring to e-mail or phone
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800,000 people go into a post office each day for one reason or
another
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A service called giroPost allows banking at 6,000 terminals in
2,500 post offices around Australia producing 17.5 million dollars worth of
transactions each year
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An average suburban post office serves about 800 people per day
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99 percent of Australia is considered rural; this 99 percent
contains 29 percent of the population. The cost of delivering to the rural part
of Australia is quit high so it is subsidised by the rest of the
population. This is done because of government law
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To send a letter anywhere in Australia costs 45 cents
(Australian)
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At present, optical character readers can sort about 30,000
letters an hour whereas a human can only sort 1,000
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The number of women working for Australia post has increased to
27 percent in recent times
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Australia Post employs 288 Aboriginals and Torres Strait
Islanders
