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Post apocalypse: the end of daily letter deliveries is in sight

  • Written by Paul Alexander, Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University
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Australia Post is seeing red. A lot of it.

After posting a razor-thin profit of $23.6 million in the last six months of 2022, it anticipates a loss for the full 2022-23 financial year – only the second time since being corporatised in 1989.

The last loss was in 2014-15, following a $190 million investment in...

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