Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA

Zanadou writes Australians are well used to paying what's called an "Australian Tax": high(er) prices for international products and services simply because they are are being accessed from an Australian IP address and/or being delivered to an Australian mail address. But Australia Post, Australia's national mail service, might have a solution: last week they opened a new warehouse/delivery depot in Oregon, U.S., allowing Australians to use a U.S.-based delivery address for mail items, which can then forwarded onwards to Australia.

However, this service, called "Shopmate", comes at a cost.

Comments

Other prisons are the same

[i kan reed]

You have to deliver the package to the prison office for inspection before prisoners can receive the delivery.

Re:Other prisons are the same

[OzPeter]

You have to deliver the package to the prison office for inspection before prisoners can receive the delivery.

I'll have you know that in Oz, having criminals in your family history who were deported to Australia is actually a bit of a status symbol. Especially if you can trace them back to the First Fleet. I'm a bit pissed, as I can't do that as all my ancestors were free settlers.

And the reason that the Brits started dumping convicts in Australia was partly because of some war or something that they had with a former colony that stopped them from sending the prisoners there.

And in the words of some comic (who I can't remember)

I'd rather live in a country founded by convicts, than one founded by Puritans