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Larry couldn’t stop the mail
When Cyclone Larry – Australia’s worst storm in 30 years – hit North Queensland in March, we continued to get the mail through wherever access was safe. Although road closures and enormous amounts of debris on the roads affected deliveries in some areas, our staff, licensees and contractors did an amazing job of processing and delivering mail in very difficult conditions. |
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We achieved productivity gains of 3.7 per cent. |
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A new home for Post Logistics
Post Logistics opened its state-of-the-art 1.26 hectare warehouse and office facility at Brisbane Airport’s Export Park. |
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We carried out 268,000 100-point identification checks – an increase of 200 per cent on last year. |
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We delivered 95.6 per cent of domestic letters and 97.4 per cent of bulk letters on time or early. |
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Australia Post and the Commonwealth Games
Australia Post was a major sponsor of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games – one of the biggest sporting events Australia has ever hosted. This provided retail opportunities for the sale of stamps and related products, especially our Australian Champions instant stamps. |
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For a full year leading up to the Games, people from many areas of Australia Post put in a huge team effort to make it a success. Retail Group ran three temporary post offices – including one at the Athletes’ Village – to cater for the thousands of Games athletes, officials and media representatives. |
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The team at Dandenong Letters Centre processed the hundreds of thousands of mail items bound for the Village. And our Mail & Networks Division and Corporate Security Group ensured that – despite road closures and increased security around the Games venues – deliveries during the Games matched our regulated performance standards. |
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We involved our major business customers in the excitement with a Commonwealth Games hospitality program, and we got school children involved through our Letter Link promotion, which encourages students to write to their favourite Australian athletes. |
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Our Community Champions
Winners of the third round of our Community Champion Award had the chance to run in the Queen’s Baton Relay as part of our involvement in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. |
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Representation of women in leadership roles is 30.2 per cent – 1.9 times the national average. |
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China connections
Sai Cheng Logistics International, our joint-venture partnership with China Post, opened two facilities (in Shanghai and Shenzhen) and a freight-forwarding office in Hong Kong. |
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We paid $514.1 million in taxes and paid the government a dividend of $282.5 million. |
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Dame Edna our
Australian Legend
We presented comedian, satirist, actor and writer Barry Humphries (and his alter ego Dame Edna Everage) with the 2006 Australia Post Australian Legends Award. Five stamps were issued to commemorate the award. |
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Postie safety
We ran a Postie Safety campaign to help make our posties' jobs safer and to educate the public about what they can do to help. |
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High-tech mail monitoring
We installed radio frequency identification (RFID) technology at 53 of our facilities to enhance our ability to monitor our delivery service performance. |
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We earned a net
profit for the year of
$367.9 million (an
increase of $26.6 million).
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We handled 5.42 billion mail items – an increase of 1.0 per cent from
last year.
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