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The post is privately owned in Australia by a for profit company called AusPost. They are infamous for paying their CEOs massive bonuses while hiking up prices and hiring poorly paid contractors to deliver impossible targets.
Oh so you're already living the dream.
Often feels like we're a testing ground for a random selection of the worst neolib strategies. Friends around the commonwealth echo this sentiment.
We used to have a real postal service run by the government. It used to be good secure work. It erodes in front of our eyes.
It's a good government job here in the states. Somewhat lower paying but you get benefits and retirement. So naturally the pot full of crabs that is the US wants to hand it over to capital so those lazy freeloaders can suffer like the rest of us. :)