Australia Post

Post is a governmental owned postal service operation. It is responsible for all Australia’s world wide delivery as part of its community service obligation. Post Master General Department was established in 1901 on the federation of Australia as part of Australia’s government. In the later years, Post Master General Department (PMG) was separated into two different sectors which consist of the Australian Telecommunications Commission which is to handle the telecommunication sectors and also Australian Postal Commission which handles all the postal services under the trading name of Australia Post in 1975. In addition to that later in 1989 the Australian Government later introduced a new legislation to corporatize all its commercial enterprise. And so with this has made Australia Post into becoming a government business enterprise (GBE). By becoming a governmental business enterprise Australia Post has its own Board of Directors still but then is required to act commercially and also has to report everything concern to a Minister responsible.
After that in 1992, Post then started to introduce Retailed Post to developed post offices into more retail based stores concept. Then in 1995, Giro Post was introduced by Post as part of a range of financial transaction utility which allows customers to do all their utility bill paying at Post stores. Not only that but, a five year network renewal programming costing about $500 million was used to equip Post with the latest technology to allow more efficient mail processing and delivery to be done. Moreover after that in 1996, Post again introduce ePost a new technology which allows the electronic transmission of international messages from Post stores to be delivered as hard copy to its recipients. Mr. Graeme John was appointed as the director of Australia Post and also Ms. Linda Nicholls was the chair of Post. And with the guidance of the two of them leading the team of Australia Post in October 1998’s annual report of