Given that it can take around a week for mail to arrive from interstate it hardly makes much difference how often mail is delivered. People have used expressions like ‘watching moss grow’ to describe excruciating delays but following the Aus Post tracking of a registered letter or a package is equally frustrating. Everything AusPost does after announcing reduced volumes is exactly what you’d do to reduce volumes and profitability even further. And the people in charge get paid $millions and gold watches for failure, what would they expect for success?