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Article #154Re: Tell Telstra to stop sending you dead trees.
From: SG1
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:17
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:17
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"terryc" <newsninespam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message news:i643qj$85k$3@speranza.aioe.org... > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:19:52 +1000, Rod Speed wrote: > >> terryc wrote >>> B J Foster wrote >> >>>> Good idea. Everyone should send this to everyone they know. Mine go >>>> straight into the recycle bin. >> >>>> These directories should be opt in. Telstra is living in the last >>>> century. >> >>> They moved into the current century early on the delivery of these >>> things. Delivery was all tendered out decades ago. It costs, the >>> deliverer about 4-10x as much to delivery scattered directories as in >>> door to door urban areas. >> >> Yes. Particularly when most wont opt out. >> >>> They know if they bundle urban areas with rural/ scattered areas, they >>> will get cheaper overall delivery quotes. >> >> They arent lumped together, one year the local footy club did the >> delivery in my town. >> >>> If it all turns into random selected address delivery, then they might >>> as well bulk contract with Australia Post. >> >> That wont work, they are too heavy for that. > > So who did deliver the telephone directories to all those rural > properties? More importantly, did they do t again? The Aussie Post mail contractor. The local PO gets paid per directory delivered.
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