18 March 2014
TO:
LPOGRoup, Ms A Cramp, Mr A Hirst and co.
PLEASE READ THIS _ IT IS IMPORT TO ME, A POST OFFICE OWNER
I ask you: Have you all lost all sense of proportion and reality? Don't you realise that you
are playing into Aust Post's hands? There's not enough money in the Aust Post bank to
pay the extremely optimistic increases in LPO payments and conditions that you are
demanding so they will take action.
reduce the number of LPO's, will do more and more
business online cutting LPO's out of the chain, will offer bigger customers special deals
which LPO's cannot match, will make it more and more difficult for LPO's to do
business, will demand refits, more costly security, longer opening hours including all day
Saturday, try to control LPO staff and so on and so on and so on.
So what
will happen? AP will
What will this mean? The demise of the network of LPO's. It's as plain as the nose on
your face that we face disaster, and instead of a phased introduction of changes, YOU
LOT are forcing Aust Post to act NOW and leaving us less time to cope with what
changes bring. Your precious pet Senators won't be able to save you or the rest of us this new federal govemment is not stupid, they want to save money not spend it.
I paid a substantial sum for my business, after doing my homework, but I had no idea that
I had to calculate for a bunch of nutters who can't run their own businesses properly so
are setting out on a course which will not only damage my business, but every other LPO
business in the country.
The world is changing more rapidly than we know. Peop[e pay their bills a different way
now. A lot of people don't have landlines. Letter volumes have plummeted. Mail will
change, probably less and less deliveries per week. Aust Post has signalled that there
will be two classes of mail, regular and slower. How do you think they will pay LPO's
for less mail and slow mail? Pay less, that, s Wliat-aiid'YeTmy fixed.ortr lrenq rates;
insurance, utilities, staff) will remain and probably increase. We need Aust Post to love
us, not give them reasons to screw us. I have so far had a reasonably good relationship
with Aust Post but have little faith ttrat the good relationship will continue when the area
and network managers are told what to do with LPO's.
You are a hopeless and short sighted bunch. And the sad thing is that you might continue
to play the victim card and get more adverse publicity for LPO's which will damage the
value of the PO Licensa even more. And that Business Broker you are hitched up with,
you'd think he'd know better - but instead he no doubt sits back, encourages your antics,
and continues to get his huge commission each time he sells a business to another mug.
Get real and re-evaluate your actions and words.
I know I speak for hundreds and hundreds of other PO owners when I say I want my
business to prosper, not fail and I want you out of it. I never asked you to do what you are
doing and I am very resentful that you, a bunch of people I don't know, are damaging my
business and my investrnent.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop now and leave us Licensees to try and salvage
something from the mess you have made
From a furious and very worried Licensee in Victoria.