AusPost Plays Scrooge to Rural News
By AIDAN KNIGHT and LIAM DURKIN. The world truly has gone mad.
In a move that defies reason and regional reality, Gippsland Farmer, the region’s highest-circulating rural publication, has been reduced considerably in size after a bureaucratic blunder from Australia Post headquarters.
For the Christmas period across November and December, Australia Post says it will not deliver copies of the Latrobe Valley Express-produced monthly newspaper to rural letterboxes unless each copy weighs less than 100 grams.
Usually, Gippsland Farmer is at least 48 pages, coming in at around 130 grams. In order to meet the 100gm weight limit, the Express has to cut the next two issues of Gippsland Farmer to 36 pages.
For a service once trusted to bridge the tyranny of distance, Australia Post’s latest directive seems determined to widen it.
Author's summary: AusPost reduces rural newspaper size.
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