FED: Postal deliveries could be scrapped under new system

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2010
FED: Postal deliveries could be scrapped under new system

Postal deliveries could be a thing of the past under a radical new system that would
have us collect mail from automated community post boxes.

News Limited says Australia Post has earmarked the system for outer metropolitan areas
.. outlining the changes in a 12-page brochure presented to councils.

The plan is to end door-to-door services .. with residents going to community hubs
.. where as many as 12-hundred post boxes would be located .. which people can access
with swipe cards and pin codes.

Similar systems are already used in Britain .. the US and parts of Europe.

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