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terryc wrote
> 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?

Whoever offered the best tender on that.

> More importantly, did they do t again?

Yep, plenty of them did. And some wanted to but got beaten by a different tender.

>>> There is also the consideration of printing cost per copy.
>>> The more you print, the cheaper it gets per copy, so
>>> they are not really interested in significant print reductions.

>> It doesnt work like that. They still save money on printing when printing less.

> Maybe one or two percent of the bill.

Its a hell of a lot more than that.

> Printing is one service that has a high overhead per job as well as a cost per copy.

It isnt high at all with the sort of volume that the phone books are printed in.

The cost is completely dominated by the volume.