Things That Make Me Go Hmmm #9
Apparently Australia Post are no longer going to do letters. Australia Post is bleeding out. Now they're about to get 'reviewed' to see whether we'll still receive letters. I haven't written a letter in a decade or two I'll admit, but I receive plenty of them from various organisations that still think dead trees (wrapped in more dead trees yo!) and with another small dead tree (YO!!) glued to them are cool. As long as said organisations are making money off me I think they'll want letter delivery.
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National Mail Carrier No Longer To Carry Mail. Shades of dystopia. |
And this is the article I started off reading: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/03/02/australia-post-letter-review/ - Australia Post is going to get 'reviewed' to see if they should still convey letters. What? Are we going to have to put letters in a cardboard box now and pretend they're parcels? Is this the stupidest thing I've heard for years? Probably yes, and yes.
One other thing that occurs to me is that letters from Aunty Mabel with a crisp tenner in them will become a thing of the past. Which of course goes well with the eventual aim of taking physical cash money out of circulation and using digital transactions all the way. Is this stupid too? Yes. Never an economy has grown and thrived but that it didn't have a bustling cash undercurrent to it. While the world's governments are busy trying to wring every taxable dollar out of their constituents and sparing their corporate overlords from the slightest hint of tax, they forget that cash greases the wheels...
But the days of letter writing seem out the window. 👍💥🙏😁 <- These guys are so much easier. And impersonal.
Mind you, these days unless it's written on gold leaf or some fancy paper in the blood of a sacrificed weasel, you could just as easily (I suppose) scan your letter to a PDF and then email it, so it shouldn't upset me. But dammit there are still going to be at least two people on Earth who don't have an email account or a mobile phone and what are THEY going to do, huh? Also we have LETTERBOXES outside our homes, notice they are not "PARCELBOXES"? (Not everyone has the luxury I've had of making a parcel delivery hatch in their new Not So Bastard Gate...)
Also, sometimes you need to send a signature by mail. I suppose you could always sign, scan to PDF, and then send - but the ways to defraud by such a process are too numerous to count. Talk about making it easy for forgers fraudsters and other criminal elements. I suppose one way would be to take the signed document to the Post Office, pay them to examine, authenticate, scan, and then email it to the destination Post Office where it can be printed and placed in an "Authenticated" envelope and delivered, but that really takes us back to the days of telegrams.
The thing that really gets me about all this is how Australia Post made a veritable fortune during the pandemic and instead of staffing and skilling up, they cryed liek bebbehs and said they'd just stop delivering stuff until their poor overworked (and never augmented by new staff) staff caught up. Timely and sometimes time-sensitive deliveries seemed to be irrelevant to them. And now I guess irrelevance has caught up...
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