Australia Post - Facts and Statistics

Facts and Statistics

Nationwide there are 7,950 postal routes serviced by 10,000 "posties". Motorcycles (like the iconic Honda CT110) are used for delivery for around 6,600 routes, bicycles for 350 routes and walking for 1,000 routes. Cars are only used for the very longest routes. Until the 1960s the longest, and the world's longest, overland mail route was Meekatharra to Marble Bar. As there were few roads a round trip took seven days. The current longest overland route is Norseman in Western Australia to Border Village in South Australia: 1,460 km (910 mi). The longest air service delivers to remote communities in the outback covering 1,790 km (1,110 mi) over two days.

The most isolated postbox is located on a dive platform on the Great Barrier Reef.

The most isolated Post Office is located 217 km (135 mi) from Onslow in Western Australia, 32 km (20 mi) from the nearest customer.

From the 2009–10 Annual Report:

• Handled 5.1 billion mail items.
• Revenue of $4.87 billion.
• Profit (before tax) of $103.0 million.
• Delivered 96.1% of letters on time or early.
• Just over half of Australia Post's revenue comes from delivering letters, the rest comes from other activities.
• Processed 194 million agency-based bill payment transactions, 30 million banking transactions and over 1 million passport applications.
• Australia Post has over 4,415 outlets, with over 2,531 in rural and remote areas
• Australia Post has over 16,039 street posting boxes
• Australia Post has over 34,400 employees
• Australia Post owns Star Track Express.
• All undelivered items go to the mail redistribution centres, which attempts to return the items to their sender.