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Private UPS and FedEx deliver packages right to my door. I have to go to the post office for USPS packages.

None of the private couriers will come within 50 km of my parents house, only the government AusPost delivers. Private couriers want them to pick the packages up at a distribution center 100 km, in a pinch they'll leave the packages at some random convenience store (not even an official pickup point) 50km away.

AusPost is semi-private though

It is? I thought it was owned by the Australian Government, similar to the ABC or the Australian Rail Track Corporation.

Australia Post is wholly owned by the Australian Government represented by two Shareholder Ministers, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts.[1]

[1] https://www.finance.gov.au/government/government-business-en...

Ah sorry - corporatised rather than privatised. Not subsidised by the govt in any way.

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