I can remember when NZ Post was a government service operated for the public good.

The Luxon government has just approved changes "to allow NZ Post to operate the mail service in a commercially sustainable way."

That means a 33% cut in urban mailbox deliveries, and a 40% cut for us rural customers.

"... the new deed requires that mail be delivered two days a week to urban addresses, PO boxes and private bags and a minimum three days a week to rural addresses."

Rural users rely on NZ Post to receive medicines and all manner of small packages. Not long ago we were guaranteed six day per week deliveries, then it became five, and now it'll be three.

Unlike city folk, we yokels have no alternatives. Other courier companies all hand off to rural mail for the last mile.

https://www.odt.co.nz/business/changes-may-mean-cuts-mail-delivery-days-rnz

#NZPost #NZPol

Trumps latest tariff tantrum reinstated tariffs on small value parcels (<$800), but the US doesn’t have systems in place to process and collect tariffs for this massive quantity of shipments. So they have told other countries that they are responsible for collecting the tariff at the point of origin. Of course, that isn’t how tariffs work so postal and shipping companies are just not accepting parcel shipments to the US

#tariff #post #NZPost

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/570844/small-business-at-risk-of-closure-after-nz-post-suspends-shipping-to-us

https://yle.fi/a/74-20178678

Another sign of commercial snailmail's death throes, and more evidence NZ Post needs to be de-corporatised;

"Under NZ Post’s new policy, mail clearly addressed to, for example, a named patient at the street address of a hospital is “returned to sender” because, as NZ Post has previously told incredulous union members, people need to learn how to address mail correctly, including mail they want to send to hospital patients."

#PostalWorkersUnionAotearoa, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2502/S00146/postal-workers-union-says-nz-post-may-be-breaching-its-public-contract-with-its-new-return-to-sender-policy.htm

#NZPost

#NZPost has a new stamp issue, ahead of #ANZAC Day, recognising Service Animals.
From dogs and pigeons, to horses and donkeys.

https://collectables.nzpost.co.nz/animals
#StampCollecting #Stamps #StampCollection #NZ

NZ Post to return mail with no private bag address

He said it would also affect high-profile mail recipients like MPs - any mail to an elected official would now need to be addressed to Parliament's private bag, rather than "Parliament Buildings, Molesworth Street, Wellington" or "The Beehive".

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/539086/nz-post-to-return-mail-with-no-private-bag-address

#RNZ #NZ #NZPost