JB,

Yes. Critcise someone with an Arab name, and some nitwit (Mr. Opinion in this case) jumps to conclusions. I don't know whether Farhour is a Muslim or not; it has nothing to do with his poor performance. The mobile 'phone man who died recently was a Muslim, and he wasa business genius. If I want to have a go at Islam, I will, and I do. The subject was our lousy postal service, but some ratbags like Opinion jump at any chance to demonstrate their warped views on their pet stupidities.

Mr Opinion has a valid point. We certainly seem to be pandering to a small religious minority who, whereever they go, have wrecked the country.
Islam is a dog of an ideology, with apologies to dogs of course. We are insane to let these things happen where he gets a job running Australia Post into the ground and criticism is given as a mental condition.
The disgusting ABC and sections of politics are pandering to islam not realising they would be the first to go. Look at Europe how has wholesele islamisation assisted anything? Come to think of it what has been done in Australia for that matter?

Here's my recent (last week) experience with Australia Post.

I live in one of four small towns in NSW across the river from Mildura. An organisation in another town, 30km away, emailed me a document, but also sent a copy by post, to 'save me the cost of printing' out the attachment. The letter took 2 weeks to travel 30km. Of course it travelled further: with no local mail sorting, it went across the river to Mildura, then to Melbourne, where it was sorted, then back to Mildura, then across the river again to my PO box - a round trip of 1100 km.

Simultaneously, I ordered some books on line; both parcels got from Sydney to my box in just three working days, presumably direct by truck to Mildura? As I commented at the local PO when I picked up the parcels, it would have been quicker to walk to the next town and collect the letter.

It has been like this for a while, but the local POs had ways to bypass the system. It's 300k from here to Broken Hill: mail goes via Mildura, Melbourne, Sydney to Broken Hill. Once the posties put a letter on a truck direct to Broken Hill for me because it was urgent.

For letters, this seems to be the result of technology - its cheaper(?) to send everything to one big processing centre and run it through the machine, but clearly if you live in the country it's a lot slower.

While I'm not one for conspiracy theories, I wonder if there is something deeper at work. Yes, letter writing had declined. But in business when sales drop, a common strategy is to lower your prices to increase sales. The increase in stamp cost to $1 (a very large % jump compared to previous rises) looks like it is designed to kill off letter mail entirely, or shift it to priority paid (maybe less than a week in the country, definitely not next day delivery) or registered mail. Maybe this is what the AP CEO is getting paid so much for?

So what are you saying Cossomby? That you think Ahmed Farhour deserves every cent of that $4.5 million.

I don't think anyone 'deserves' that sort of money. But maybe he's doing what is expected of him (though not by us hoi polloi).

As I said, I'm not usually into conspiracy theories, but I don't understand how such huge salaries are approved unless there's some underlying agenda.

Cossomby>> in business when sales drop, a common strategy is to lower your prices to increase sales. The increase in stamp cost to $1 (a very large % jump compared to previous rises) looks like it is designed to kill off letter mail entirely<<

Coss it is a 41% increase……..you may be onto something re the chasing customers away, but whether the strategy is growth or contraction, he does not warrant $4.5 million for doing it.