Thats no more Night Shift at Delivery center level... So Dandenong and Ardeer in Melbourne will be the only places that carries night shift from July 2012.. Oh and Gateway for express mail at the Airport.

Dandenong and similar major mail centers Aus wide will run on minimum staff with as much automation as possible. Post has finally got it's act together with state of the art OCR's that can read many variations of hand written items... Plus collate and send it out round sorted. So the miniscule amount of 'residue'.... it used to be 10/20 pct of mail that required sorting at DCs (delivery centers)..... will/has already been reduced to circa 8pct or less... Will be handled by the Posties, as most of their work is already sequenced and ready for delivery now. Leaving them extra time to take on the sorting role....along with.the remnants of a part time Night shift who will have an early morning start at 4am.

Personally I'm after a 4am part time sorting job combined with a Part Time walking round to give me full time hours. Thats what the Union are expecting. A/Post has always played ball with this kind of technology change for its existing employees, uptil this point. Hopefully the status quo will remain.

What this means, Is any Redundancy package I'm offered can be swapped with a "full time" Postie and I take his job and he/she gets my Package ..Post wins because the round gets split in two and becomes a Part time round from that point on. .

Note most of the Large letters (plastics and small parcels) will still require a total sort and sequence at Delivery center level... Thats a major new role for the Posties... Combined with what is left of the 'Part time' night sorters. We had 29 night staff this time last year at Preston DC which is the 2nd largest in Melbourne.... We are down to around 12 now. People have been leaving or transferred and not replaced, which has been run in with voluntary OT Posties starting at 4am.

Parcel centers will actually get busier and bigger.... Ardeer (Melbournes parcel handling center) is likely to end up bigger than Dandenong.

Cannot believe the "Murphy's law" aspect for me, as this is straight in the middle of 100k's plus of major renovations. We were actually assured 18 months ago that Night Shift jobs were the safest at Post.

The Wife is none to pleased at the possiblity of her having to go back to shift work nursing

Sure is... and it's possibly going to be my salvation if things go tits up for me at Post... so I'm bloody grateful for it ...... Hopefully

I just applied to Bunnings, not below me at all i need to work for my sanity let alone the cash
I bet i knocked back for being a balding old English guy who talks like a goofy cow

All over the world. Then again the OP may be crap at interviews or have a rubbish resume.

Jobs you get because you know someone are not worth it.
Last year I applied for a job. I was shortlisted. The guy took over 8 weeks to tell me that he hadn't picked me. Waiting for him, I turned down another job which would have been great.
Three months after him telling me I hadn't got it, he rang me and asked if I was still interested. It was his fault, he said. He'd hired the wrong person.
I said yes.
Went to another interview, he told me that he'd clicked through to my Linkedin profile on the net and seen that I knew all these people that he knew... and this was his instant decider.
Working for him was nightmarish. The company culture was terrible, chinese whispers, backstabbing. They talked about the boss behind his back, and played nice to his face. He'd change his mind from one minute to the next. Acted on his frustration with customers, firing off random emails or telling me to respond to a complaint a certain way, then later asking me why I'd done it... er, cos you told me to? He'd sacked the last 4 people he'd hired for that job. Couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag.
Ugh! nightmare. I wondered whether he was bipolar... no idea. It was the only thing I came up with.

Being hired because I knew people he did? No thanks.

Now working for a large company who have 'career mapped' me and who got me in for interview after reviewing my cv and liking it.
Recommend you stick to your guns, keep plugging away and keep applying for jobs. Have your resume professionally assessed.
Also how about looking at your personal presentation? Aussies dress very sharply for interviews. Look at what you're doing, handshake, eye contact, your manner.
There may be a very good reason why you're not getting jobs.
Good luck!

Crikey. Even when I was at Post they were saying parcels were the way of the future and we could expect a major drop in letter processing. I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

This whole "Australian nepotism" thing makes me laugh. Born and raised here, never got a job through nepotism, never known anyone who did.