‘MyPost’ offers concessions for mail users

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Australia Post is facing a financial crisis, as this column mentioned the other day. But they are not giving up. Australia Post is looking at fresh initiatives to keep their clientele and to provide them a better service.

‘MyPost Concession’ is a new innovation offered to the customers to attract them to Aus. Post. Anyone can open a ‘MyPost Concession Account’ and receive a number of benefits specially developed for them. An account holder is able to purchase up to 50 concession stamps each year. As an account is opened the account holder gets a card with five concession stamps. These can be used to send mail within Australia. They get concessions on Mail Hold and Mail Redirection services and a MyPost concession card. The concession stamps can be bought by presenting this card at Aus. Post retail outlets. Booklets of five stamps are made available for account holders to purchase. A free digital mailbox is another facility offered to account holders. It has been described as a place to securely receive digital mail and manage life’s important jobs, allowing one to pay most bills and store your documents online. It can be accessed anywhere anytime using one’s IPhone, IPad or any device with an internet connection. The digital mailbox has been designed so it’s easy for one to manage bills and documents and to give one control over who can send digital mail. One can decide which companies can send mail to the digital mailbox so that one can maintain control. A note states that Australia Post is committed to helping people stay connected, especially with the ever-changing world of mail. With increasing numbers getting used to e-mail and other electronic methods of communicating, postal managements everywhere are facing a big challenge in maintaining postal mail as a viable venture. In Australia the number of letters sent by post has come down drastically in recent years resulting in a steady drop in revenue from letters. The Government lost $122 million in 2011, $167 million in 2012 and $ 218 last year. It has been estimated that about one billion fewer letters have been sent over the past five years. Meanwhile, the wages bill and other expenses have been rising. Today there are 7,950 postal routes serviced by 10,000 postmen. Motorcycles are used for delivery for around 6,600 routes, bicycles for 350 routes and walking for 1,000 routes Aus. Post is considering the cutting down of the delivery of letters from five days a week to two or three days as a measure to cut down the costs.