Postal job losses 'brutal reality'
Prime Minister John Key says the loss of up to 2000 postal jobs is the "brutal reality" of people sending fewer letters.
Prime Minister John Key says the loss of up to 2000 postal jobs is the "brutal reality" of people sending fewer letters.
NZ Post is about to begin a three-month trial offering fingerprinting for employment, immigration and other purposes - previously a police service.
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.
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?
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.
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.
New Zealand Post is to cut 120 mail processing roles as it halves its mail processing centres from six to three.
New Zealand Post says it will axe 80 to 100 corporate roles at the state-owned company's Wellington and Auckland offices by July.
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.
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.
New Zealand Post’s proposal to reduce mail delivery service to as few as three times a week is unsustainable and unjustified, says the union for postal workers.
New Zealand Post has completed the delayed delivery of more than 18,000 pieces of mail allegedly stolen by a postie.
More undelivered mail has been handed in to police in Queenstown after it was found in the overgrown backyard where mail was found earlier.
NZ Post has sold its 35pc stake in Datacom to the NZ Superannuation Fund for $142m.
Kiwis have been waiting more than a month for overseas parcels containing Christmas presents, as mail authorities here question who is to blame.
The woman accused of stealing more than 17,000 pieces of mail bound for Wakatipu homes has been remanded on bail to February 14.