Australia Post hands $51m lifeline to ailing rural and remote post offices
An article about revitalising rural services from the other side of the world. Australia Post hopes a $51.4m lifeline for struggling small post offices and agents will help sustain services in rural and remote areas. The new ‘small Post Office support plan’ will immediately strengthen the future sustainability of 478 LPOs [local post offices] and 495 CPAs [community postal agencies] across rural and remote Australia.
Ahmed Fahour, the chief executive and managing director, said “We’ve been working closely with our licensees to identify how to best support them in the face of digitisation, a significant challenge facing our traditional letters business”.