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"Our fleet now includes four different types of low carbon heavy vehicles ...
The Mitsubishi Fuso E-Canter, our first electric truck, co-funded by EECA, has been on New Zealand roads since 2022, serving both Auckland and Wellington. The Hydrogen-powered Hyundai XCIENT FCEV, also co-funded by EECA, has a range of 450 km and primarily operates between Auckland and Hamilton."
https://www.nzpost.co.nz/about-us/sustainability/low-emission-vehicles
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#HydrogenTrucks #hydrogen #NZPost #EVs #HeavyEVs #ElectricTrucks
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A relative of mine is a postie and does rural deliveries. That includes daily newspapers.
When the number of weekly deliveries was cut the amount he is paid was cut (less hours = less pay) but the volume of mail stayed the same.
He still needs to deliver both yesterday’s newspaper and today’s at the same time.
I can’t recall if that means he needs to take another trip back to the depot. He already has enough mail to deliver.
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I can remember when NZ Post was a government service operated for the public good.
The Luxon government has just approved changes "to allow NZ Post to operate the mail service in a commercially sustainable way."
That means a 33% cut in urban mailbox deliveries, and a 40% cut for us rural customers.
"... the new deed requires that mail be delivered two days a week to urban addresses, PO boxes and private bags and a minimum three days a week to rural addresses."
Rural users rely on NZ Post to receive medicines and all manner of small packages. Not long ago we were guaranteed six day per week deliveries, then it became five, and now it'll be three.
Unlike city folk, we yokels have no alternatives. Other courier companies all hand off to rural mail for the last mile.
https://www.odt.co.nz/business/changes-may-mean-cuts-mail-delivery-days-rnz
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Note for locals on this mass mail sending as-a-service ...
I've been saying for years that NZ Post is crazy not to get into commercial email hosting. After all, every public service and business expects an email address now. The NZ Post email inbox could be the digital PO Box.
Anyway, this mass mail sending business *definitely* seems like something they could be making money out of.
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Trumps latest tariff tantrum reinstated tariffs on small value parcels (<$800), but the US doesn’t have systems in place to process and collect tariffs for this massive quantity of shipments. So they have told other countries that they are responsible for collecting the tariff at the point of origin. Of course, that isn’t how tariffs work so postal and shipping companies are just not accepting parcel shipments to the US
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Has anyone noticed #NZPost becoming much more unreliable recently? I've had a couple of parcels go missing in the last few weeks.
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Another sign of commercial snailmail's death throes, and more evidence NZ Post needs to be de-corporatised;
"Under NZ Post’s new policy, mail clearly addressed to, for example, a named patient at the street address of a hospital is “returned to sender” because, as NZ Post has previously told incredulous union members, people need to learn how to address mail correctly, including mail they want to send to hospital patients."
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NZ Post to return mail with no private bag address
He said it would also affect high-profile mail recipients like MPs - any mail to an elected official would now need to be addressed to Parliament's private bag, rather than "Parliament Buildings, Molesworth Street, Wellington" or "The Beehive".
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/539086/nz-post-to-return-mail-with-no-private-bag-address
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NZ Christmas postal mystery - can you help?
The story thus far:
12 Dec. Book ordered and despatched by regular post from Palmerston North, packed in brown paper.
20 Dec. Book repacked in box at the NZ Post depot in Highbrook (for reasons best known to themselves) and sent on through CourierPost.
23 Dec. Box delivered in Lower Hutt. On being opened it proves to contain not one but two books. On inquiry, bookshop disclaims all knowledge of book #2.So if you either posted or were expecting by post a Moomin book that has failed to arrive, let me know privately which Moomin book (with any other supporting evidence) and we'll aim to get it where it's supposed to go.
They say the usual "six degrees of separation" are more like two here in NZ, so let's get that network humming!
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I use that Post Shop from time to time because it's convenient when you're coming from the north, and there's always parking. Trying to park near the Uni Bookshop can be a nightmare and I rarely visit South Dunedin. It's a seriously shitty thing for NZ Post to be doing.
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I don't shop online much but this impressed me.
It was a part for a vehicle I couldn't source locally. I bought it from an Auckland source.
Ordered it at 10.25am yesterday.
Collected from sender at 11.08 am
Delivered to my door at 9 .00 am today.That's Auckland ( Nth Is) to Timaru ( Sth Is) in less than 24 hrs!
Now I understand why local retailers are seeing less foot traffic.
PLUS: A big Shout out to NZPOST. Well done guys.
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The latest layoffs come from NZPost which has offered staff either voluntary redundancy or the "opportunity" to work a four-day week for 20% less pay.
"Opportunity."
Surprisingly, NZPost doesn't know how many people will be affected, but have said they expect $35 to $40 million savings. Using the higher figure as an example, that would mean laying off 400 people averaging $100k pa each.
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On the surface, NZ Post's proposal to get rid of posties and make courier drivers deliver regular mail appears foolish.
But dig deeper and it's even stupider. Not only is it guaranteed to slow courier deliveries, just imagine the parking problems it will cause.
https://www.odt.co.nz/business/replacing-posties-couriers-will-slow-deliveries-union-says
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The Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa says NZ Post has confirmed there will be no posties within five years. Instead, mail will be delivered by "independent contractor couriers." No holidays or sick pay, cover the costs of your vehicle and no job security.
“We don’t think a state-owned enterprise should be basing its delivery model on the vulnerability of contract couriers.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350166226/days-posties-are-numbered-union
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OMFG could #NZPost be any worse. I had a card left the other day, so selected redelivery with “leave at back door”. Get home today and what do I find at the _front door_? Another freaking card. What a waste of their time and mine. RAGE.
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"The Gilbert Islands Coastwatchers Memorial on the corner of Whitmore Street and Waterloo Quay, Wellington.
The memorial was unveiled in October 2014. It commemorates New Zealand radio operators based on the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) who were executed by the Japanese in the Second World War."
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WINZ is using MailChimp to send email. Email. A public service agency is paying a private company in the US to send email for it. Seriously? WTF.
I've been saying for ages that NZ Post ought to be pivoting into hosting email. Handling large-scale mailouts like this is a classic example of a service they could actually be making money out of, doing the digital equivalent of their traditional business.
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Yesterday the driver of a NZ Post van forgot to use the handbrake on a steep street and the van took out a concrete power pole.
Note that Arnold St is the next one along from the rather steep Baldwin St.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/nz-post-crash-driver-didnt-have-handbrake-police
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@lightweight if you want to prevent digital voting in NZ local body elections, you need to come up with a financially *and* politically viable proposal for how to deliver and collect paper voting forms in the event of #NZPost shutting down their snail mail operation, or merging it with parcel post, raising the price past $5 an item (one of which now seems inevitable). I can't think of one. Make delivering voting papers gratis a compulsory pre-condition of operating a delivery business?
@donkey
