Former postie Linda Street pedalled the streets of Christchurch for more than five years on ever-increasing sized rounds, clocking up unrostered overtime.

It is not as if NZ Post is going broke, writes Dita De Boni. It pays at least $5 million each year to the government, profits are soaring - up 18 per cent if the SOE's first-half profit growth is anything to go by.

NZ Post plans to roll out YouShop in China - the parcel forwarding service set up to cash in on the surge in online shopping.

New Zealand Post has sold its digital media subsidiary the Localist to management. But the state-owned enterprise will not say how much money it has lost from its investment in the advertising-funded directory business or the price paid.

New Zealand Post is denying a claim it deliberately delays mail deliveries in order to promote its premium fast post service.

Why does NZ Post continue to flounder while Germany's Deutsche Post has significantly outperformed the Frankfurt sharemarket in recent years and the UK's Royal Mail has just had a successful IPO?

No one delights in job losses and my heart goes out to posties and their families with the cloud that hangs over their futures, writes Bruce Wills.

More than 1,000 posties and retail staff could lose their jobs after NZ Post got the green light from the Govt to move to three-day-a-week deliveries.

Editorial: Is the decision to cut postal deliveries in urban areas - but not rural areas - tied to the National Government holding almost all rural seats?

NZ Post has secured agreement from the Government allowing it to move to three day a week letter deliveries from 2015 but rural areas will still retain their current services.

New Zealand Post's across-town mail service will now take longer to reach their destination.

New Zealand Post is revamping its branch network to put Kiwibank at the fore as it looks to take advantage of the bank's growth potential.

A NZ Post worker has been awarded $500 compensation after receiving a final written warning for spending five hours socialising in the company carpark after work.

Post office customers are being dispatched to self-service counters as New Zealand Post bosses try to stamp out long queues.

Queenstown's disgraced former NZ Post worker, jailed for stealing thousands of items of mail from Lakes district residents, was often too hungover to complete her duties.

A disgraced former postie who stole more than 21,000 items of mail from Queenstown residents failed to fulfil her "sacrosanct" duty of delivering private correspondence.

The Queenstown postal worker who stole thousands of pieces of mail from Wakatipu residents has been jailed for 17 months.

Disgraced Queenstown postie Philippa Lynette Lindsay has admitted stealing thousands of pieces of mail destined for Wakatipu homes in the Queenstown District Court.

NZ Post faces falling mail volumes and must adapt

New Zealand Post will not rule out further cuts to mail services and Post Shops after outlining plans to move to three-day-a-week letter deliveries.