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| Thread ID: 129007 | 2013-01-28 22:22:00 | Internet Killing NZ Post | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1325416 | 2013-01-29 07:43:00 | I remember back in the late 80's that they put postage of a letter DOWN from 45 to 40 cents as they were doing so well! How things change. But you must not be so hard on them, as volume goes down, their costs remain the same. And I don't see what they could have done to make people keep using snail mail. It will only be older people who don't or cant use a computer that will keep posting letters. I know the UPS in the States have tried to cut back on their delivery days and the US government has said no. And they owe BILLIONS to their pension fund. It seems on the polls that most people have accepted that it will have to happen. So lets hope the government pass the law as soon as. Now I just wish they would drop the price of sending small parcels overseas, it seems to be much dearer to send a parcel to the USA than the other way round |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1325417 | 2013-01-29 08:52:00 | Dunno about the discounts to customers re: parcels, well they wanna max profit. Maybe incentives nevertheless though log-in account online etc .. if NZ hasn't already got that. I cannot remember the last time I sent a letter in the mail, probably sent more parcels tbh. Still get the invoices just b/c the folks don't know how to use computers. Bank statements are useful for them but not essential, they could just do a statement at the ATM. Eg - those transaction accounts without monthly fees or even electronic transactions. But going with the world trend of inner city apartment living, if I had to that is something I can do too. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1325418 | 2013-01-29 09:23:00 | there is no real point sending letters anymore all though parcels are extremely useful. | jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1325419 | 2013-01-29 22:13:00 | Postcodes are a real curse as well. There's the danger that at some stage they may insist on use of (correct) postcodes, which will lose them further customers, as few people know their postcode, or their cousins postcode, or business Y's postcode. Further impeded by them re-assigning postcodes a few years back, which buggers up everyone who'd been trying to learn them. If they were still learning the old ones at the time of the changeover I doubt they will ever learn them. NZPost website lets you look them up easily if you don't know anyway. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1325420 | 2013-01-30 01:34:00 | I often see a small motorcycle whizzing around the town delivering letters. It appears that DXmail (yellow.co.nz) has been around since 1970 as a business alternative to NZPost. Deregulation of the New Zealand postal market in 1998 helped DX Mail expand it's operations. | Bobh (5192) | ||
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