More than 2.5 million parcels and letters were dropped off around the country yesterday, which is believed to be Australia Post's busiest delivery day in history.
Australia Post is believed to have recorded the busiest delivery day in its history, with more than 2.5 million parcels and letters dropped off around the country yesterday.Australia Post is "really under strain" in Victoria, the company's head of network implementation Colin Hindle says
Ms Holgate says there will be no postie redundancies despite letters in metro areas being delivered every second day "In Victoria, we're really under strain, I don't think there's any other way to say that," Colin Hindle, Australia Post's head of network implementation, said.
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