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16,000 letters to find their homes
The start of delivery of more than 16,000 letters and parcels by New Zealand Post is better late than never for hundreds of Wakatipu residents.
The start of delivery of more than 16,000 letters and parcels by New Zealand Post is better late than never for hundreds of Wakatipu residents.
Wakatipu residents will receive an apology from New Zealand Post when their lost mail is delivered to their homes on Sunday.
Six Christchurch post boxes have been broken into and the mail stolen, in what is being called a targeted criminal activity.
Another 10,000 pieces of undelivered mail have been discovered in a room at a storage company by Queenstown police.
Over the past 14 years, mail volumes have plummeted as social networking sites and online media make communicating easier.
A high-profile entrepreneur who founded a controversial British tech firm is mentoring and investing in local start-ups and sitting on the advisory board Localist.
The PM has dismissed accusations of cronyism in the Govt's choice of appointments to boards and working groups.