Regional post offices ‘concerned’ new changes will ‘take them backwards’

Team Global Express CEO Christine Holgate says many people in regional Australia and the postal industry are “slightly disappointed” following the announcement of the end of daily letter deliveries in a bid to modernise the postal service. “There’s over a thousand responses to that review, and what we’ve just seen is cuts,” Ms Holgate told Sky News Australia. “I’m not saying they’re not important - what we haven’t seen is anything to do to grow services in rural and regional Australia. “And many of those community post offices are really concerned this is going to take them backwards. “We’ve been asking to work with the government,…