Tuesday, 19 November 2024 10:08

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Written by The Hound

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OPINION: About as productive as a politician's taxpayer-funded trip to Hawaii, as cost-effective as an OSPRI IT project, and as smart as the power-company pylon worker, the Hound gives you the NZ Post business strategy:

In response to falling revenues, make your prices increasingly unaffordable and cut your service levels back to the bone.

Fighting agains the rural post cuts, Rural Women NZ is stunned at the service cuts proposed for NZ Post mail services and is worries about their potential impact on rural communities.

MBIE is consulting on proposed changes to the minimum obligations for NZ Post's mail service.

Your old mate reckons other farm lobby groups should be joining the fight against these cuts too, although to make sure their message to government gets through in time, they'd be well advised not to send a letter!

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