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Speaker 1: Right now, Enzid Post is under fire because it failed

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Speaker 1: to remove six post boxes and Hawke's Bay that were

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Speaker 1: no longer being emptied. The public continued to use the

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Speaker 1: post boxes. Now the problem with this Hawk's Bay Today

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Speaker 1: has spoken to one woman who posted her free bowl

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Speaker 1: screening test into one of the boxes. She only realized

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Speaker 1: it hadn't been collected two weeks later when the box

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Speaker 1: was overflowing. John Maynard is from the Postal Workers Union.

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Speaker 1: He's with me, Hi, John.

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Speaker 2: Hi there. It's pretty bad, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It's terrible? How did no one realize?

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Speaker 2: Well? New Zealand Posts went about pulling out all of

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Speaker 2: the roadside posting boxes they could find, and I lost

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Speaker 2: count when they'd taken out one thy five hundred and

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Speaker 2: some of them were taken out pretty quickly and pretty

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Speaker 2: quietly and chopped off at the ground level. But looks

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Speaker 2: like as well as not being able to collect the

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Speaker 2: Maileleue can't even figure out how to remove boxes which

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Speaker 2: they don't want to use. Our position is if people

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Speaker 2: are using those boxes, the company should not be taking

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Speaker 2: them out. This is a publicly owned institution and if

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Speaker 2: they want to move boxes or take them out, the

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Speaker 2: very least they should do is consult with the local

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Speaker 2: community through their local newspaper, and New Zealand Post will

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Speaker 2: not do that.

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Speaker 1: In a funny way, does this not prove ends in

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Speaker 1: post point? I mean, if you look at this one

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Speaker 1: case of the postbox that was not nothing was collected

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Speaker 1: for nine months. I mean it took nine months for

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Speaker 1: anyone to actually notice. I mean, does that not tell

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Speaker 1: you that you don't need them?

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Speaker 2: Well, it says that people have stopped using mail. And

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Speaker 2: we understand, of course the mail volumes are going down.

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Speaker 2: People use other methods of communication. New Zealand Posts needs

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Speaker 2: to adjust to that particular that particular role of how

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Speaker 2: people communicate. Now that's fine, but when they first started

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Speaker 2: pulling these out, we said to them, what's the criteria

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Speaker 2: for pulling them out? And they said thirty letters? And

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Speaker 2: we said thirty letters thirty letters a week or what

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Speaker 2: no thirty letters a day? If there were less than

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Speaker 2: thirty letters a day, they pulled them out. That's a

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Speaker 2: hell of a lot of mail going into a suburban

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Speaker 2: roadside postbox and New Zealand Post was pulling them out. Now,

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Speaker 2: wonder people have stopped posting letters They can't find anywhere

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Speaker 2: to post them, and yes that one those particular ones

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Speaker 2: have taken some time to fill up New Zealand post

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Speaker 2: is its reputation that's pretty bad and they don't do

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Speaker 2: much to defend it and how they can stay We

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Speaker 2: haven't wanted it for nine months and it's going to

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Speaker 2: stay there for another two months. It's just it's stood unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: It's bad. I mean, if they're going to the fact is,

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Speaker 1: if they're not going to use them or not going

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Speaker 1: to empty them, then they shouldn't be there. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's the point, isn't it. Otherwise you end up with

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Speaker 1: people putting there. You know, their bow screening was samples

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Speaker 1: in there. What absurd. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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