Can NZ Post still deliver? (7 October 2025)

Marcus gauges reaction to the news that NZ Post will be allowed to lower the number of delivery dates per week.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from Newstalks
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
First Things First, we'll talk about boil water notices. They
featured last night and they'll feature tonight. Also, two central
Otago towns have been slept with boiled water notices as
their treatment plants struggle to cope with heavy rain. They
are for Opa and ormer Co, just across the river.
They're from Ofa. From five o'clock tonight, drinking tankers will
be parked at Deecas Street and their Olmico School and

(00:35):
Swindon Street, opposite the ofa community pool. Residents visit's worde
to boil all water used for drinking, food preparation and
cooking and cleaning your teeth until further notice. Bring water
to a rolling boil and boil for a minute, then
allow it to cool naturally. How else would you let
it cool, they said, a heat exchange. They'll let you

(00:59):
know when conditions improve, and there is a conserved water
notice that remains in place for ran Fairly and Nazy.
These are hil areas and the maney of Tortos. So
that's a situation there. Sofa O for awesome. I'm the
co boil your water. That's just going at five o'clock tonight.
I don't know if your pill have been texted. I
would imagine it's probably about two thousand people that would
apply to They will know pilby door knocking. I would

(01:24):
think that's that done with anyway. How's that going? You're
right about that because people asked, like I got re
upset about people not know anyway? How are we going
in Hamilton? Is it still boil water there? People are
quite alarmed about that. Get in touch Marcus Till twelve
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine two
to text something else. I need to mention. How are

(01:46):
we about the new Zealand mail service and letters? It'll
be down to two deliveries a week now. I haven't
had a letterbox for a long long time for thirty years,
so I don't know what happened with the mail. But
in twenty thirteen the average person would send seven point
five letters a day, sorry a week. That's twenty thirteen.

(02:15):
This year it is down to two. So it's fallen
by more than two thirds in twelve years. To sunset industry.
In ten years there'll be no mail. But is this
devastating for you? Is this affecting you? Who out there
sends more than two letters a week? I wouldn't send

(02:37):
very many at all. We have a post office box,
but we get it about once a term. But yeah,
how's that? Ah ended post? It's a minimum obligation to
live a mail two days a week, down from three.
I don't know what the post he is doing the
rest of the time. I guess they do more than
one runs, do they?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
And the days must not follow each other, so it's
spread through the week. How are we feeling about that?
Is anyone out there writing a lot of letters? And
I'm curious to know who you are. I'm looking at you, well,
who would you be mailing to? Maybe it's postcards, maybe
it's chain letters, maybe it's birthday cards. So if you're
a letter person, let me know. Or is everyone okay

(03:16):
about this? Have you realized now that it's on the
way out like checkbox and landlines? Or is this something
that's got you kind of freaked out? I kind of
hoped you would be freaked out, because talkback likes nothing
more than people freaked out about something, particularly like mail.
If it's on the way out, so if you've got
some information about that, let me know. Oh, eight hundred

(03:37):
and eighty ten eighty would be very keen to hear
you about that. Yes, I thought it was still five
days a week. I didn't realize it was down to three.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
By the way, btw on that have you been because
I know about five years ago we talked about the
mail and people were pulled with how long it took.
There'd be people like sending letters from you Plymouth to
Waverley and they'd go via Parmester North and there's some
crazy details of letters traveling a long long way. Has

(04:08):
that been your experience? You might want to talk about
that also, eight hundred eighty to thirty and nine two nine?
Just how are you with the post? Is it okay?
I think probably the thing I'd be more alarmed about
as I think if I went to postly that there
aren't many post boxes anymore? Is that a problem? This
is your chance, people, How are you with the post?

(04:30):
Are you okay with it? Get in touch or you
think that's good? I would suspect by people's response that
people are relaxed about it. So let me know if
you're okay about this one? Oh, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine to. It's all about the
post YEP and are you okay? That's down to two

(04:53):
days a week, probably Tuesday Thursday or Monday Wednesday or
Wednesday Friday, or Tuesday Friday, or Monday Thursday or Thursday
Tuesday or Tuesday Friday. I made and that's the way
it's going. So we are talking about the post tonight.
I know that it's legal not to have a letter box,
but I've never got any flack for it. But I
imagine the way it's going before long that most people

(05:16):
won't have letter boxes. Why would you gets full of snails?
I think the letters. But if you're outraged by this,
you might be who would be affected by let You
might be off the grid, you might not have a
cell phone. I don't know who would be affected by
no mail. Hello, Brent, this is Marcus.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Welcome Market.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Accountant. So or she posts out quite a bit of
stuff to people because we need documents physically signed, and
the post office are just disappearing. We've had a post
office box for sixty years and O to who's and
it's shifted it around the corner and instead of being
in a lobby post office box is now front of

(06:01):
a supermarket facing the road and the rain, and they've
used old boxes, haven't even done new boxes. And we've
had the size of our box reduced by we have
a wider one, so they've halved the size of the box,
and they still sent us the bill for the whole amount.
And then they've just had a letter from them apologizing

(06:23):
husely for all of this, and I said, I'm well
really accepted. So yeah, I just the impression they are
actively working towards removing the post service.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
It sounds really shabby your treatment, Bret Brett, Can you
just tell me what accountants you've got to sign physical
You've got to sign financial declarations do that's got to
be done physically. You can't do that on email.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
You can do a lot of stuff by email now,
but there are some physical stuff they're signing, And yes,
you can go about it more complicated ways, but we've
got a lot of older clients and not to help
pile of technology and buggering around so from the French,
but they so, yeah, it's very interesting to see what
they've been doing. We've had a terrible service from over

(07:12):
the years and it's just just base with it. I
actually had an incident with them where they actually shut
out wrote a leteracy, we're shutting down your PO box
because you haven't paid. But they had our money for months,
but they still shut it down.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
It does that committed to I mean, the post is
to be a very important service.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
Absolutely, and for older people the post is still a
valuable service. And I remember years ago reading a story
about the German post who decided that ye postal services
are going downhill, so why don't we up our postal
service and make it the same just about next day
everywhere over Germany. And we'll bring in courier services and

(07:56):
we'll bring and will actually make the post service better.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And they did, and I think surprisingly enough. I think
in the United States of America they take the post
very very seriously. In fact, some places of the Grand
Canyon where they're still going into valleys with donkeys to
get the post. And you know, and I don't know
how regular it is, but I think it's probably very regular. Yes,

(08:20):
it's six days. The USPS is six days a week,
Monday through Saturday.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
I always, I always know when an organization is going down.
The Googler because they have the fleshiest premises an in
the post out in the Firebrook and East Tammicky there
have got the most polacial, massive premises. I did a
half everything out there years ago. Half of the run
was just going around in posts venue polanial premises that

(08:51):
they're signed up for and yet volumes. I've got to
use what they all do.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Okay, I'm going to leave you there, Brent, because your name,
your phone numbers pulsing. But I'm liking you, are liking
you a lot, Brent. Thank you, Susan. This is Marcus.
Good evening, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 7 (09:08):
I fully agree with the man who was just one before. Look,
I think for people of like I'm a bit older
than you, Marcus, but like male is going the same
way as checks the banking. It's fine for people of
our age, Marcus, but it can just continually erodes forms

(09:30):
of contact for the elderly.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
It's a difficult.

Speaker 7 (09:36):
One to rationalize because I get it that younger people,
most of us, in fact, just use email. We you
use just anything on our computer. But I've been like
a volunteer with blindlow vision for decades, and male is

(10:01):
one of the things that they you know, can put
under their the greeders and things they can't see a computer.
And it's just a little bit sad the way that
we diminish life for those whose lives are already diminished.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Suzanne, is this what's happened to every single thing in
history that it's kind of had a slow death rattle
and then people have given up on it. Is that
probably like the Howes And I'm just trying to think.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
Oh no, no, I agree.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, yeah, I can't quite work out if it's unreasonable
or if they've actually trying. You know, I don't know
because I'm not a letter poster, but I think I
think from from Brent what he said, it was fairly
I think his comments were fairly reasonable.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Oh no, I look, I agree as well. I'm just
like putting an alternative view out for the disadvantaged people here. Look,
I couldn't actually agree more with Brent and with you.
It's just one of those things that is going to

(11:09):
continue to occur, but it does diminish life for some
of our more vulnerable people.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Inclined to a grease is and thank you, hold your horses.
People will get you after the break. By the way,
I'm looking for updates. It's the super moon tonight. That
said it's epigy. It's closest than it's ever been this year.
So that's where it's close. The moon is close to
that looks bigger because it's nearer dB Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
I'll have to go outside down never look at the moon.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yes, well what's the sky like? It does a cloudy
sky count? Yeah, I think it's a pretty I don't know.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
Actually, well, I'm not far away from your bleve and
I'm up in nightcapt so I will wander out after
the phone call. But something you said piqued by interest.
So it's not legal not to have a post box,
a letterbox, a letter box.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, it's my belief that it's illegally obliged to have
a letter box.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
Because I am bi residential, I have I live in
two places and my one and why Hola has not
in a box? And yeah, it's basically I live under
a flat block and nobody knows that I live there.
But my place in Nightcaps, of course, is equally disadvantaged.

(12:32):
I had a note from the hospital telling me about
an appointment that arrived. After the appointment, Wow, so in
the cargo will send me mail, which then goes to
the needen and then goes somewhere into the ether and
then finally arrives at my bower box between one and

(12:54):
two weeks later. And yeah, I could see where the
male system might not be useful as it used to be.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Are there repercussions for that for you?

Speaker 9 (13:10):
dB?

Speaker 6 (13:12):
And in this case no, because I didn't want to
go to that particular meeting anyway, I could do with
not being probed in those particular orifices. But yeah, it
could be very important. And it arrived because I got
a phone call from them says, you haven't turned up
for your appointment. I said, don't you have an email?

(13:34):
Because I do. They said no, we said to a letter,
and then two days later and arrived saying he's your
appointment time.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
It worked out how much duty was it posted, and
that one was two weeks, which is not enough these days?
Is it needs to be a month? For the way
the postal system works, you'd think.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
But you wouldn't think it was unreasonable. So that was Yeah,
I have grave concerns for our postal system. But of
course now they're not moving letters, they're moving packages.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, and doing that fairly well.

Speaker 6 (14:13):
It seems absolutely I agree with that one of them
found my my my white Holer address without even having
the numbers on the boxes that exist.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Did your hospital letter go to Nightcaps then? Why holder
and back to Nightcaps?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
No?

Speaker 6 (14:30):
No, I just went to Nightcaps. And I have people
that I paid open all my mail just in case,
so you know, it's my best notice or some stupid.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I've I've just come from basketball between the Bluff Primary
School and Tucker team Who's school and Nightcaps. It was
a pretty good game. I thought that did well for
a long time to travel down for a basketball match.
That's it was good. It was a fairly close game.
I think Bluff narrowly won. Not bragging, but it was
a good yea, it was a good match. So this
is sort of eight, nine and ten year olds. But

(15:02):
I thought, gee, that's commitment to families because it's an
hour's drive down for a twenty minute game and an
hour's drive back to Philly. Big differ, it isn't it?

Speaker 6 (15:09):
Just on a really short digression. When I first moved
to Wellington, I lived in take a tevu way oh
and now I'm living in tech Tea.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
It's just it's a small country.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, and yeah, well yeah, you'll follow up your appointment
what you dB and you'll get that sorted.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
Oh, this was a couple of weeks ago. And yes
they got to take blood and post me in places
I didn't want to be poked.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Okay, nice to hear from the DV. Thank you. Twenty
six past eight, Michael, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (15:40):
Hi, good inning, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Thank you Michael, thanks for asking. I'll be an eight
out of ten.

Speaker 10 (15:45):
Oh that's good. Oh well yeah yeah, cleaning room to improve.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Though, well not that much room, but you want to start,
you want to leave a little bit just in case
you get a fantastic day.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
Yeah, well, near perfection, Marcus, it's very hard to improve on. Yes, anyway,
I'm talking about the mail and the post and things. Obviously,
you know with the Internet, from what I can see, ah,
you know, there's been a major decline in a hard

(16:17):
copy post going around with people emailing and things, you know,
very obvious. But I looked at well, after hearing you earlier,
I did a little tiny bit of research and saw
that there are some things in this country anyway that

(16:39):
do require the mail and hard copy posts. Legal documents,
the likes of like people being evicted from flats and things,
and they need to be served documents where the government

(17:00):
can't rely on email communication and things. So I think
there's always going to be a need for the mail
service hard copy.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well it seems less and less, it seems less reliable
and less regular.

Speaker 10 (17:17):
Well yeah, I guess it is, you know, because we
all seem to rely more on emailing and things.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
But anyway, but I think with lawyers and accountants, now
you've got to go and see them to sign document.
That's the way it works. They get you that way.
So I don't know how rural folks cope.

Speaker 10 (17:34):
Well, yeah, that's just a very good point.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Thanks for that.

Speaker 10 (17:39):
But yeah, I think there's always a need. But I've
got a friend and he works for a New Zealand
posts and they, you know, they they've definitely been reducing
their staff numbers due to the situation, and they seem
to like rely on some of the best performers and

(18:02):
keep them employed. And what impresses me is the New
New Zealand government, you know, New Zealand Post Department, they
provide some amazing benefits for some of those staff.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Are your mats, are your makes post is Michael.

Speaker 10 (18:21):
Yeah, yeah, and all sorts of things. They really look
after them amazingly. So yeah, it would be sad to
see that disappear. Yeah, they Yeah, there's a lot of
over there's a lot of overtime and all sorts of
benefits and so yeah, I wouldn't like to see the

(18:42):
postal service disappear, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, I think it's happening before our ries, Michael, But
thank you for that.

Speaker 9 (18:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Get in touch if you want to talk mon ums
Marcus hurdled twelve. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty text
if you want to be a part of it, that's
what we're about. Get in touch, hitdle twelve. Anything else
with this is the topic for now. The are you
happy with the mail system? Happy? Unhappy? Tick a box?
Keep those texts coming there, coming through, thick and fast,

(19:09):
and most of those are very good, very very good.
These days we will use all use docu sign, no
need for post. Could someone explained docu sign to me.
I've never heard of it docu sign. I guess it's there,
all in the word docu signed to sign the docu peat.

(19:32):
This is Marcus. Welcome you a Marcus.

Speaker 11 (19:36):
Yeah, that was brought up a few weeks ago about
it was the d X post about them regarding to
the hospital appointments and that's sending out there you know,
through the through their system. So obviously they were was
brought up. They think they had dr they were short
of drivers and stuff. Then drive around those little scooter
things they come. They come around my place and that too,

(19:58):
but they're about it's not old news, so I think
it's time the government had maybe they've got to change
that service with new z Post is pretty good. I
think of their service and they call it snail mail,
but sometimes I do stuff have trayed me and their
stuff is really really really good as far as your
parcels go, usually the next day or the day after

(20:20):
they deliver them to you know, I send them for
my place. So that service is good. But I think
them sounds like the letter system.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Is not that good.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well, it's down as three days a week, so it's
on its way out as declining, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (20:33):
Yeah, As far as the appointment, that's quite crucial. You know,
I was in the hospital. They are relying on you
to get back to them so that you can't make it.
You know, they'll give to somebody else. I think the
government's really it's going to start rattling someone's cages. Otherwise
it's not good enough because they're relying on those people
to show up for those appointments. So they don't show up, Well,

(20:55):
it's a big it's somewhere else. I said pretty much
that someone else is missed out on that appointment.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I don't know why hospitals aren't going to text or email.

Speaker 11 (21:03):
Yeah, but they've been not old people that don't have
that technic.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
So you you don't need to do it for everyone though,
can you can do it two things? But you're just
going to be a worry.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Oh it is.

Speaker 11 (21:14):
But I think we're the government's got to somehow when
it comes to the hospital, specially those important are quite
crucial because otherwise, you know, so they should really some
of the government's got to act on that and say, well,
if the X because I know there's a lot of
lawyers they used to use.

Speaker 12 (21:27):
They used to be they were.

Speaker 11 (21:29):
A good service. But obviously your service has gone back
a bit, so obviously maybe maybe they they should lose
that contract and should act on that.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
How is your sending peak?

Speaker 6 (21:42):
I don't send any exactly, so it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
So you're like most people that you're over. You don't
use the postal service.

Speaker 11 (21:48):
Ah no, I don't, but you really, But you know
when it comes to government department that are sending those letters,
which it is a government part, you know, So if
you're not getting them, government's going to do something better, don't.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
They just want how to fix your peep. But thanks
to twenty five to nine the hospital emails, we all
text me all the time. Text door says Marcus, my
van got broken to last night. My tools got stolen,
including my ear pods which have a tracker. I've told
the police they won't do anything. I went to the
house myself that at tracked her when the guys slammed
the door in my face. Police they come tomorrow and

(22:22):
do a statement. How does that make sense? If you
live on Manica Roade in Glenfield. Give me my stuff back?
Need to rent? Wow, Marcus. Courriers will deliver in the
essential mail. The only constant has changed, Marcus. We have Monday,
Wednesday and Friday livery days for years, but our poster
has built up the mail until Saturday. Since he covers

(22:43):
a large area, so it wouldn't be surprised me if
it's any the case for many woo Heathel twelve twenty
four to nine. Diane, This is Marcus. Good evening and
welcome Hi, Diane.

Speaker 13 (23:00):
Shu's me Marcus. Yesterday I got a letter from the
hospital and it was delivered by posts. Oh that's good
and that and it said inside it. When I opened it,
it said as soon as you get this letter, please
ring this number. And yeah, so the appointments for next Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
So I guess that must be for urgent place. Eh.

Speaker 13 (23:29):
Well, yeah, I had to have a blood test and
had urgent you know for that. But you know they
had my email address and that, but no, it come.
I was surprised, come by a Caurier post and you
zee them post.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yes, so they must have two systems for the non
urgent stuff. They'll send letters of the urgent and stuff
they'll send it by career posts.

Speaker 14 (23:49):
Yeah and that.

Speaker 13 (23:51):
But know when that guy said that, you know they
just put them in the mail and you know, Martin,
you get there in time. But yeah, no, I was
quite surprised that.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
You know, Okay, that's good information. Thank if that does
that makes sense to me? Another dye and second die
and God, even this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (24:09):
Hi am Marcus. And I'm just ringing out to say,
I get my rates in the post, and I get
my line chad in the post, and there's a few
other business things accountant and yeah, if you've got anything
to do with lawyers, they used the post to.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yes, that would do right, yep.

Speaker 15 (24:33):
So I would still need and i'd still need my
rates paid post it to me and the line chads
with your phone and that.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
So I think you can get a discount if you
don't get the physical bills of the power ble if
it just goes online, they give it to you cheaper.

Speaker 15 (24:50):
I think, Oh, I only buy about two dollars, and
really you'd have you'd have to go to your computer
and turn it on every day if you don't know
what to expects your computer.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yeah, your computer, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (25:04):
You know.

Speaker 15 (25:04):
Whereas if you're running around with the phone in your
pocket and I'm not otherwise if I had to go
and get a phone when I've got on a land
on phone at the moment, but I mean the one
of those cell phones, you're going to be running running
around with that in your pocket all the time and
looking at it or something.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
You haven't got one. You haven't got a cell phone?

Speaker 15 (25:26):
No, I've only got my landline and my computer. I
have nothing to do with it. And I've got my thanks.
And I spoke to my grandson in Australia tonight, so.

Speaker 17 (25:40):
That was good.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
We see in Australia, Diane.

Speaker 15 (25:44):
He's in Perth, out of Perth, not far from the airport. Report. Yes, seat,
I got this present that arrived today and I thought, oh,
I couldn't make it anyway it was. He explained that
there's a relative counsel, I think, and she makes these
things and it was really nice. And here it was

(26:06):
sitting in the chair when I arrived home after getting
with grocery. So I is such a thoughtful grandson, you
know he is. So he's like, you know, he's in
his thirties.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh, cheapest criminal, about five or six year old. Well, yeah,
I know.

Speaker 15 (26:23):
He's got lovely children too. He's got two boys and
a girl, a little girl, and that already. The lovely children. Yes,
they're very nice. I must say that.

Speaker 14 (26:35):
They are.

Speaker 15 (26:36):
Not just saying it because I'm they're my great grandchildren,
but they're wonderful.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Nice to hear. The great grandchildren are great eighteen to nine.
Welcome far in Queenstown. I can'ts the cottages. Have you
got any I can't see anything on like with that,
with that come from Denay's got any more from but
by the way to our radio stations just based on
that sort of block too or I don't think many
people do shows out of there. Anyone don't know what
they're doing with the site. Be in touch if you

(27:05):
want to be part of the show tonight, the show
that Keys and the Keys that shows hit'll twelve eight
and eighty nine to nine two to text. Yeah, that's
a good point to hear from you about that. Anything else,
We're up for it. It's eighteen away from nine talking

(27:25):
post on the moon, Hailey, it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (27:27):
Welcome Hi Marcus.

Speaker 18 (27:30):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Thank you Hailey?

Speaker 18 (27:33):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 16 (27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (27:34):
I was just springing up because I think I heard
you mention about the some sort of supermoon yes night,
and I decided to take a drive down a Talma
Kee Drive and have a look at it and out
in full force.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Is it near the horizon.

Speaker 18 (27:50):
It's a fair way up there. Okay, it's a fair
way up there now. So yeah, and luckily the rain cleared,
So yeah, it's looking looking really nice. I think it's
important to get out and see it and be by
the water. I think it's really good.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
For your well being.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Of course. Yeah that sounds great. Okay, so be halfway
to the top, is it? I just don't think how
far high in the sky is?

Speaker 18 (28:09):
Yeah, yeah, I would, I would. I would say about there,
so maybe from maybe from a lot of places and
in New Zealand you could see it now, but yeah,
I'm not too sure.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
And that would be in the east, I guess beyond
the east the sunrise, say that the moon rise. I
forget where the moon rises, but you'll.

Speaker 6 (28:26):
Watch the reach, you know, I would say east.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And the post. You got anything to say about the post?

Speaker 18 (28:34):
Yeah, I thought it was interesting hearing about the post.
I'm a bit of a younger generation, so pretty used
to the old emails and find the post a bit
tricky because I'm move, end up moving every other year
and happen to update. It's a bit of a pain.
So yeah, don't really get a lot in the post
these days.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Hally, what would what inspires you to post letters? Do
you ever do it?

Speaker 7 (28:59):
No?

Speaker 19 (29:00):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
I can't say I do you've never done it?

Speaker 20 (29:03):
I do think there's a there's.

Speaker 18 (29:04):
A romance to it. Yes, not something I've done recently ever,
Oh no, probably not not ever to be fair.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Wow, well you've never you've never licked a stamp?

Speaker 21 (29:21):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (29:22):
I would have sent a few cards back in the day,
probably birthday cards or Christmas cards were alive. But it's
all E cards now, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Well I kind of think E cards aren't much good.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Can't store them. They could store cards that sort of.
But you know, I'm hearing you. I'm hearing what you
say you have then is it? No? Not the same?
And all Christmas cards a really nice to talk to.
Thank you twelve to nine back in a bit ten
from nine if you want to be a part of it.
Moneame as Marcus. Welcome the fires out at I can'ts
they thought they suspected it was they think it was

(30:00):
an extractor fan. It'spad that the extractor fan wasn't cleaned
and caught fire. I guess that's what has happened. We're
talking about the post really who needs it? And I
don't know the answer to that. But when do I
use DOCU SV once what was it for I can't remember.

(30:22):
It was pretty confusing anything, and I want to go
through that again. I mean, it wasn't confusing. You do
it off for me. You do it like once every
four years. It becomes like, hang on, what, I got
to learn how to do this again? Cheapness? Anyway, get
in touch marks till twelve. You got to be a
part of the show. There's something else you want to
talk about.

Speaker 14 (30:36):
Good.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
It is a supermoon so for every big because it's close.
So if that's something you want to talk about, then good.
I can handle that. But mainly about the post and
down to twice a week. I sense that no one's
too furious, but that's just supposition. My putd only mentioned

(30:59):
that because there would be there could be some people
that have great uses for the post. So I haven't
quite worked out what that great use is. So yes,
if you've got one of those great uses, I haven't
thought of what is that, I'll be up for hearing
about it. So I don't quite know what it is.

(31:20):
It's a good way to send money, but that's not legal,
but it's a good way to get money around the country.
I suppose to do bitcoin now, but bitcoin before it
all collapses. More news of the paper about Jilly Cooper
who fell the queen of the Bonkbuster twelve million books

(31:44):
is not bad. Get in touch if you want to talk.
As I say, oh eight and eighty, it won't even
of a call back there Dan, he's self terminated. I think, oh,
how come well? Why would he ring in there and
have gone oh okay, that's fine. Marcus. I'm stuck on

(32:05):
a post cross now with my friends, stuck on a
post crossed now with my friends, as Joona left me
in a clown of the right mic. New suburbs in
Auckland are building all the mailbox for all the house
on one street at one end of the street light
the retirement villages and rural folk. We're going to do
the same. Shops are still selling lots of Birthday sympathy

(32:27):
and Christmas cards. They all come with an envelope. That's right.
They are saying that someone must be selling them. Marcus.
I saw the supermoon from an A n Z flight
over the Southern Alps with the sun setting it making
it glow orange. Amazing, Marcus. I just flew back from
Christis to Auckland about seven forty five. I was coming

(32:49):
past PoCA Cohi Era. I looked down at the window
and saw the moon load on the horizon and saw
how big it was. First time ever I looked down
at the moon from a plane. Was rebig and clear.
Oh that's the thing you get. You get f post
cards in the mail, don't you ordered bank card banks
to arrive five to seven business days. Took closer to
a mumph after around twenty five business days, canceled the

(33:10):
card with the bankt tuned up a couple of days later. Marcus,
Usually lawyers use DX, not New Zealand Post. It's all
good information, Marcus. I'm a dispatcher for an emergency service

(33:32):
here in New Zealand. I'm on my way to work
for a night shift. I thought it'd be a nice,
calm night when I heard you say it's a full
moon supermoon. Now I'm stoked up on sugar for the night.
It'll be crazy.

Speaker 22 (33:41):
Cheers.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Moon rise and in the cargo thirty minutes old, still
low on the horizon. We're talking about New Zealand Post
and the moon. It's all good. Yes, I don't understand
what your email says, David. Maybe it hasn't all arrived.

(34:04):
It looked like it might need an attachment with it or something,
So get in touch. You want to be part of
the show. Three away from nine here till midnight tonight.
Any breaking news, I'll bring that to you. People just
looking around for anything at the stage M yeah, but

(34:29):
do get in touch. Funny how in new subdivisions are
putting all the letterboxes down the end of the road.
I don't know what that's about. So yes, I'm not
quite sure about that young person that's gone missing in Australia,
that four year old. That's very suspicious. They haven't mentioned

(34:52):
the dingo. I don't think wouldn't be surprised that that
is something that's not mentioned. I'll do more reading about that.
Three away from nine we're talking about us in a
post and the mail. These other stuff too you might
want to talk about tonight, so feel free if you
want to come in quickly before the news. There is

(35:13):
a boiled water notice in both Ofa and Omerico, both
across one either side of the river. So that's because
of heavy rain. Two cento taker towns have been stepped
with a boiled water notice tonight after heavy rain driving
water tangles will be parked at Deaker Street near Omerco

(35:34):
and Swindon Street near ofa community pool. The rain, heavy
rain of the past few days has impact on the
treatment plant's ability to produce clean water. Why would that be,
It says, bring your water to a rolling boil, have
it on a rolling boil for at least a minute
and for cleaning your teeth. Then advise when conditions improve

(35:59):
and the boiled water notice can be removed. Lee, this
is Li's This is Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Liz, good evening.
Welcome you're there.

Speaker 23 (36:15):
Yes, it's leaders from Shaft Whidge. We've got a clear
noise here, and I'm looking at the kitchen window of
a great big supermoon. Is just like a big gig.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well is it? What color is it? Is it white
or yellow?

Speaker 23 (36:30):
No, it's sort of white.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Okay. How high in the sky is it?

Speaker 23 (36:37):
How high? Yeah, of course it's actually it's quite low
actually in the sky looking at the northeast.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Must have just risen. I'll go have a look myself, Liz. Yeah,
it's good, okay, appreciate it. Thank you. There we go
get out there, have a look at the supermoon that's happening. Tonight.
It's the full moon, but it's the closest full moon
to the moon. The Earth is close to this moon
on this full moon, in any of them in the year,

(37:07):
I think there's other some are equal. There might be
three supermoons. I think that's what I heard yesterday. They're
all tied for Closeness'll be back after the break to
talk to more of you if you ought to be
a part of it. Light them up, Stack them up. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus. I use the
post for my crossword puzzle entries. Some are online, but

(37:27):
the top Bossy brand only does mail entries. We are
talking the full moon that some say is a harvest moon.
It's not a blue moon, because the blue moon is
a second full one in a month. We're talking about mail.
Who still uses Who's got some interesting thing they still
need to use mail for now that I'd be curious about.

(37:50):
If that's part of your thing that you do. Who's
doing mail? I get quite a few letters from callers
from time to time, which is always nice, a great
photocopy cheeks of different information. Always think well, that would
probably be better at an email, But it's always good

(38:11):
to see.

Speaker 21 (38:13):
SOCA.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
So you want to talk about that. Get in touch
Marcus when Hi Marcus. When we register our vehicles online,
we receive the window regio tickets in the mail. That
may change and we may end up printing them from home.
Of all the things we buy online come in New
Zealand post the career gives it to them. Bank card
come in the mail. I recently received a seven dollars

(38:37):
infringement notice from the Queenstown District Council. After recapping when
and why I was just happy to pay online direct credit.
The council then charged me an online payment of a
dollar seventy the side of things to come. Be in
touch if you want to talk kettil twelve, Good evening,
and this is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (38:57):
Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 24 (39:00):
I had a thought, so I wrun knew about this
postal Being rural where I live, I know that the
community around here, if they need medication, it gets put
through by the medical center up here into the nearest town,

(39:21):
which is you know, sixty seventy kilometers away, and it's
up here in the afternoon, and sometimes it can be
life saving.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
And I think they've made sure that they still get it.
Three times a week, rural. That's the thing. Yeah, so
you will still get it three times, three times a
year a week, which I think is important.

Speaker 25 (39:46):
I do too.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
Thank you know that.

Speaker 24 (39:48):
That was my question.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, so it's still they're still going to presume that
for three times for you guys, and thank you. Oh
wait eighty to nine nine to text he Tel twelve,
Good evening, Dave. This is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (40:03):
Welcome marks evening mail.

Speaker 21 (40:09):
Timu.

Speaker 5 (40:10):
What about my team?

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Is that down to.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
How does your team your your clothes on? Timu? Is
that right, Timu?

Speaker 9 (40:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (40:19):
Yeah, yeah, clothes and cups, and I get some paint,
some oil paint delivered, and brushes and quite a few
things I've just ordered, just made a new order last
night of a stain of steel clothes, pins and the
length of five minute lengths of rope. And I've got

(40:40):
a pair of shoes runners.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
For twelve dollars, a.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
Pretty good deal.

Speaker 26 (40:47):
So I'm wondering if that's going to be effected not,
but it doesn't really worry me.

Speaker 27 (40:50):
I can wait a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Does it come by Does it come by post or
by courier.

Speaker 26 (40:55):
ARAMX Career or New Zealand Post.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
You'll still get those it's just it's just the posters
on their pecks, the bikes of the game down once
a week.

Speaker 26 (41:07):
See now, I was thinking to myself and what is
it actually that we get nowadays rather than it's not
coming electronically, you know. Through the email Marcus had, did
you enjoy the rugby league?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I thought it was phenomenal. Yes, and I've thought quite
a lot about it since. Dave and I thought that
that that that Brisbane is a team of characters, whereas
Melbourne's got no one Melbourne they're all so straight and
kind of boring, you know, not Harry, Grant and Jared
is all of them. They're just all a bit all

(41:42):
but but yeah, they're a wild team that maguire got
together and they came through.

Speaker 26 (41:47):
It was phenomenal and Marcus it's not the first time
this season they've done it. My thinking to myself when
rolsh and were on the sideline. They've both been sent
off and they had up gritin termination and that's why
I think we'll get on them and they deserve that.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
They deserve the premiership.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, yeah, it gains Canberra. They're both in the and
the dressing room together, Dave. I've got to ask the
question because other people. Other people will be wondering, is
the five meter.

Speaker 26 (42:20):
Rope for clothesline? That's why I got that in clothes
line so I can hang it between two posts. And
got twenty stainless steel clothes pigs, something that I've wanted
for ages that they have a family family members have
got and I thought, well, I'm going to put myself
a temporary because I don't get any sun out the

(42:42):
back there. It doesn't get some you know, So that's
what it's for. I'm going to suspend it. And I
only need five odd meters just for sheets and towels
and that sort of thing when I come back from
the pool and just peg them out.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
So okay, g glad, I asked Dave. Thank you. You
can't buy rope and not get challenged about that. One
oh wa e one hundred and eighty to thirty. Marty,
it's Marcus. Welcome Mark.

Speaker 16 (43:06):
It's good to hear you again.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
You're talking about it.

Speaker 16 (43:11):
Yeah, it is talking about cards. I looked up a
lot of elderly people and you know, a card on
their birthday, sadly a card to acknowledge a bereavement. There
was something physical that they could work with. And yeah,

(43:33):
it is something special two different people, specially of you know,
different ages. It really is a weak card they can
put there. Somebody took the effort and posted it, specially
the special moment.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Yeah, people keep hang hang on to them.

Speaker 16 (43:59):
Well they do, they do. They look back and they go, oh,
this is this is Arnie. He died last year and
they gave me this card. Oh the small boothday I'm
sixty or whatever. It's just something physical they can put
new lance, even the retirement village. They're so proud of

(44:23):
the little countess and they put them up there. It's
something physical they can go to if they want to remember,
rather than the logs of the computer and see a screen.
And it is something they can just hold on to.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Nice tea for your money, Thank you for that. A
text ur sys email on tech should be banned save
the postal system regards skip Man. The world that we
live in isn't against him or him against us. That's
old world mentality without divine spiritual God. The new world
is we are all divine spiritual size. We need to

(45:01):
cooperate together and make our transitions to attorney with divine
spiritual God. What is that about. Preserve the postal system.
It's an essentral baseline communication system. I refuse to accept emails.
I live in a city. Damn the evil email and text.
It should be based. I think must be banned. Save
the postal system, Marcus. The moontiming is key when planting vegetables. Well,

(45:24):
there are a whole theories about planting to the moon.
As I went out to the moon. Looks great. I've
got a photo the moon. Marcus. I'm seventy one. I
still send birthday cards in the post, A few Christmas cards.
I might send away an order for items from a
garden bulb supplier. The health scanning for bowl cancer uses

(45:46):
mail that's from Grant. Yes, you get that littlehen you're sixty. Wow.
I live in a complex, twelve residents, all freehold. My
number fell off my mail box. You zuom Post was
quick to place a prosecution notice in my box, warning
me that I had two weeks to replace my number
or I would be find we're talking about the postal system.

(46:09):
Are you happy with it?

Speaker 9 (46:10):
Now?

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Down to two days a week and the fires out
at Queenstown Extract a fan sixteen past nine. Get in
touch if you want to be a part of it.
It's all about the mail. So far tonight, get in touch,
oh weight one hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen past

(46:34):
nine lines for if you want to come through JT.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Welcome, Good evening, Marcus. There appears to be a lot
of confusion tonight about what you are referring to when
you say post vahicl and you you delved into that.
What's that last caller when you mentioned a person on
a bicycle, Well, those people on bicycles don't exist anymore.

(46:59):
So we're talking about the transportation of parcels and letters
to people's houses. That is not going to end, okay, but.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
It's down to twice a week for the letters.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
When that story today is the government giving is you
on post permission to lower the frequency at some future date.
They haven't announced that yet, but I imagine.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
I imagine that.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I imagine they'll want to because people are sending so
fewer letters.

Speaker 6 (47:36):
Yeah, but what about parcels. Parcels are increasing? Ye, so
that's what I'm saying. How do you define a parcel
compared to post?

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Well, I guess the postal thing has a letter with
a stamp, whereas a courier post is an envelope you
buy and one of plastic give loves you buy from
a post shop that you put something into that put
your address on, and that goes by courier and you
can sign for that, can't you.

Speaker 14 (48:00):
That's that's a like fed Ex.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
The whole reason that fed Ex exists in America is
because you have to the person has to sign to
say I've received it. But when I talk about posting
New Zealand, I'm talking about zellen Post the company. Yes,
they come to my house in a paster and they
deliver parcels or letters. They don't go past every letter

(48:26):
box on the street. They just go to the houses
that need the delivery. So do you see the difference there.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
So they're not they're not doing a standard route. They're
just delivering them. And how could they do it a week?

Speaker 6 (48:40):
Well, they come three times a week. But there's also
DX Post and there's also private carrier companies that deliver
parcels for Timur. Apparently in Queensland I heard this a
while ago, apart from Southeast Queensland, the Gold Coast and Brisbane,
apart for you know, like forty percent of the mail

(49:03):
of the post going to rural queen funders actually food
from Costco?

Speaker 19 (49:08):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Can you can you do stuff orders from Costco? Phone orders?

Speaker 6 (49:16):
Yep, yep, that's.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Orders.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
I don't think you can do it in New Zealand yet.
JT Well, I think that.

Speaker 6 (49:23):
He started doing it in a small geographical area of land,
and I think they're going to extend.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
I think you can.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Apparently you can just get cakes from Costco via for
catering at the stage, but they plan to do it. Hey,
what's interesting also about Curious, which we haven't acknowledged. Once
upon a time it was always cash on. It was
always signature on request. I've had a parcel with a
signature request for ages. It seems to have fallen by
the way.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
So you don't have a letter box at your house,
but you're where do your parcels end up? And off
over them?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
They come to our house and they're knock on the days,
leave it, they leave it and they just we never
need to s It was for a while while there
was Curious, everyone was exciting them. But now that doesn't
seem to happen anymore. People are more trusting, aren't they.

Speaker 6 (50:12):
Yeah, I think they can use the GPS and they
can have a photo or something video evidence of the
delivery it to your house.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Makes sense rural.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Farmers, farmers, they really rely on the rural delivery and
if that goes below, like to say, four times a week,
then newspapers are going to cease to exist, because, yeah,
there's nothing like I love getting a letter in the post,
even if it's a bill. I walk out to the
letter box, open it up. I've got something physical. Farmers

(50:44):
love it because if you live thirty or forty kilometers
from the nearest post office boxes, you can't be doing
that trip every day because of the cost. And when
I worked on a farm, we used to get exports
certificates from from farms North and every bag of seed

(51:04):
used to have the certificate stitched onto it. Wow, and
that's all the only CD countries are in that same scheme.

Speaker 14 (51:15):
But it's my.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Understanding that that that the rural delivery could be down
to three days a week. Is that right?

Speaker 28 (51:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (51:20):
I think it's five at the moment, but it'll go
to four before it goes to three.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
But three will be hard. But three will be hard
for rural folk, won't it.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Yeah? Yeah, because they get spear parts, business journals and
you know, getting that tangible stuff, including medication. That's another
very important factor because the rural gps, you know, they
are more often and not. Now you're doing a tally
conference over your phone or whatever. You're not going into town,

(51:55):
are you? You need to get medication cent out?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Okay, nice to hear with you. JT. Thank you. Twenty
four past nine. Hello John, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (52:05):
Hi.

Speaker 29 (52:07):
When you started talking about New Zealand post and things,
I got a bit nostalgic and it took me back
to my boarding school days in Timoru when if you
had a girlfriend and she was usually at Timmury Girls High,
I was at Boys High boarding and to get a

(52:28):
letter from your girlfriend in the post, oh, it was
almost orgasmic.

Speaker 16 (52:35):
You know.

Speaker 30 (52:38):
It was just.

Speaker 29 (52:42):
A state of life. And if you went out for
dinner on a Sunday to your grandmother's or to a
family friend, you always had to sit down and write
a letter of thanks to Nana and missus Wolfe and
whoever it was. And it was just so much part

(53:03):
of life.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
John. In those days with your girlfriend the tim Ando
Girls High, how often would you see her?

Speaker 29 (53:12):
H More so, during the winter months because we had
dancing class.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Of course, we.

Speaker 29 (53:19):
Had to go and learn how to do the foxtrot
and the quick step and the gypsy tap, and the
destiny was.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Not probably called the gypsy tap anymore.

Speaker 29 (53:34):
We'd go over on our bikes, the girls high and
the dancing teacher. She had a whistle, she used to missus.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
She had a whiskey.

Speaker 29 (53:43):
Yes, she had a whistle. She used to blow to
get us sort of shut up. And and and we
also it was part of the law of being a
boy at boarding school. You had to write a letter
home once a week. How ridiculous to your parents. It

(54:05):
was in the tree. I don't think they were centered,
but they were certainly checked to see whether you had
said one or not.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Since it not, since it not centered.

Speaker 29 (54:19):
Since it you know, and you won't. You wrote a
lot of rubbish when you just wrote and told them
the meals were bloody awful and every night, oh yes,
and you got bullied and you got your head pushed
down the duney every now and then, and all that stuff.

(54:41):
But never mind, Well think.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Less turned you into who you are.

Speaker 29 (54:51):
It turned me into a man.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Okay, well, well done with that. Have you still got
the letters from your girlfriends?

Speaker 29 (55:00):
Have I still got them? I was kept the first
one I I got from a lovely girl. Her name
was Shirley Crawford. I think they were from a family family,
family up at cave somewhere. She was lovely, but she

(55:20):
we used to use the word chack. She sent me
a check letter. I was no longer on her list,
so I got pushed aside.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
What have you done to deserve that?

Speaker 6 (55:33):
Were?

Speaker 2 (55:34):
You're not good enough with the gypsy tap?

Speaker 14 (55:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (55:36):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 29 (55:40):
Very good days but.

Speaker 14 (55:43):
John letter, Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
I'm surprised to get a candle for you when you
let you down like that anyway, And if.

Speaker 29 (55:52):
You were a bit peeved about getting the check leader,
you pinned it up on the boarding house noticeboard for
all to see. But when I first left Go and
Standard Farming, the mail delivery didn't come all the way

(56:12):
down our road, and you had to go half a
mile up the road to a group of mailboxes to
collect your own mail because the delivery boy would only
come so far and that's where all the mailboxes were clustered.
So it was no imposition really, but getting mail delivered

(56:33):
to your actual private mailbox outside your farm gate. That
was quite unusual. I'm talking sixties farming at Oxford and
the bloody what oops.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Of Oxford refoed with the bloody what wops. I think
it's quite quite sort after now Oxford, isn't it, John, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 29 (56:55):
It's It's well Oxford was originally established to be a
university town.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Of course, I don't know that I'm going to look
up there. I'm going to have the headlines johb. But
nice to talk to you, bruces Is Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 25 (57:10):
I am here to call a couple of a couple
of go They were saying that it was the government's
fault that the cost of the rural posted deliveries was
going out, was going up.

Speaker 26 (57:28):
That's not true.

Speaker 25 (57:30):
Back in the nineteen eighties, late nineteen eighties and early
nineteen nineties when Labor was in power under David Longey
the government. That government put a lot of entities like
the post office, the Electricity Department. They made the post

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office New Zealand post put a manager over the top
of them, made them the manager responsible for all the
operations of New Zealand of the post office, and called
it New Zealand Post, the same as the Electricity Department

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that I can't remember what they call that, but there's
a couple several other government departments. They were put under
outside management, taking their responsibility of all the money those
that know, those original apartments were losing, putting responsible out

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of the government's hands. So there is responsibilities now of
the rural postal things, deliveries going up. There's nothing to
do with the government. It's the Post Office has putting
them up. You can't blame the government because there's been
responsible of the responsible of New Zealand Post et cetera,

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et cetera since nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety in time
that era when David Longan is a Prime minister.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
You with me, Yeah, I don't think what you're saying
is quite right.

Speaker 25 (59:17):
It's absolutely right, right Roger Douglas.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Was respond if you've had a bit of a go round, Yeah,
so you zeidn't post?

Speaker 9 (59:29):
Sorry, how am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Well, you're slightly competitive, right. So New Zealand Post is
in post operates under a postal deed of understanding between
the Crown and New Zealand Post and they need to
get approval before they can change the number of days
they deliver their posts. It's called the postal deed of understanding,

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which happens the Crown and New Zealand.

Speaker 25 (01:00:00):
Post Right, So that means you're right, I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Well yeah, but but I don't care. But yeah, but
I appreciate you saying that, Bruce, But thank you so
good evening.

Speaker 6 (01:00:12):
Hi Hi.

Speaker 8 (01:00:14):
I lived on in the nineteen eighties on a sheep
farms away up in the Mackenzie Country. We got mail Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, three days a week. It went down
country tuesdays and thursdays.

Speaker 31 (01:00:31):
So where where.

Speaker 8 (01:00:32):
Where to all those people who say they want.

Speaker 32 (01:00:34):
To get it every day?

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
A bigger pattern.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
Just saying why are they crying because they can't get
a mail delivery every day?

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I don't think anyone's crying. I think people are just
getting used to what. It's announced today that rural delivery
will go down to three days and urban delivery down
to two days. But you know, just because just because
you got mail three days a week in the Mackenzie
Country we're talking in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
No, no, not just because honestly what we do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
So when are we talking? What year we talking? Are
you in your eighties. I certainly I'm not okay, are
in your seventies.

Speaker 8 (01:01:19):
But I'm just saying, look, I'm from Southland, as are
you right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Are you yes?

Speaker 8 (01:01:29):
From Southolk?

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
But what do we expect? How do we compensate for
all of the male not coming through New Zealand?

Speaker 31 (01:01:43):
Honestly, where where where?

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
I cry for them?

Speaker 8 (01:01:47):
Don't stop?

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Just be real, I don't and try. I know what
your point is.

Speaker 8 (01:01:56):
My point is stop bleeting about getting mail every day.
We don't need mail every day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
So I don't think anyone's pleased about it before. I
think it's been a pretty rational discussion about the reduction
of posts in the urban areas from three to two
and how people will cope with that. It's been done
in good humor, with the stories about John and his
love letters from the girls at Timidou High. Most of
it's been remarkably lovely stories and told like adults talking

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in a calm and sober way about the changing face
of technology and the changing face of delivering. And we've
looked at that situation of wonder how it used to
be and all of the systems we had, and discussions
of what it's going to be like in the future.
It's been a lovely discussion.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
Thank you, Marcus, Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Twenty three to nine ten A text that says, if
you choose to deliver the country, you do not get
the same services. That's just how it is. Half the
reason these people left the city is because they didn't
like city things market. You can get groceries from Costco
on door dash, from the Dordashians, keeping up with the Dadashians.

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How's the Superman going? People? You're coping with that? How
are we coping without the Milkman?

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Susie, this is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:03:23):
Good evening, Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 33 (01:03:26):
Marcus? Can I please talk about something that it is
about New Zealand Post?

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
But it not.

Speaker 33 (01:03:32):
It's about the days they're dropping. I was in New
Zealand Post the other day posting two parcels to Australia
and you know the declaration that you fill out to
put on the parcel to say what it is?

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Kind of yeah, I'm aware of it.

Speaker 33 (01:03:45):
They're doing away with that. Wow, you're going to have
to do it on the phone. The lady told me,
she said, have you got your phone with And I said, unfortunately,
I've left it at home. She said, next time your
post parcels to Australia, you're going to have to do
it on the phone. It's not going to be done
manually anymore. And I bought a T shirt from a
brother and a wee picture from a sister. Some costs

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thirty seven dollars to send.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Say that again.

Speaker 33 (01:04:11):
I bought a T shirt from my brother and a
plaque sort of thing with her saying on it to
my sister, and it costs thirty seven dollars to post
the two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I know what the plaque say.

Speaker 33 (01:04:28):
Oh, it's just saying how I missed her and all that.

Speaker 20 (01:04:31):
It's for a birthday.

Speaker 33 (01:04:32):
It's just a birst about missing her as my sister
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Yeah is it on what?

Speaker 33 (01:04:38):
Yes it was Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Yes, sounds beautiful.

Speaker 33 (01:04:41):
Yeah, the pink pink background and but thirty But I've
just rung to tell you that the declaration that you
do put on those parcels to Australia is going to
be wiped and you are going to have to get
on your phone and do it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
Really appreciate that, Susie, it's good information. Thank you. Nineteen
to ten Christus is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 20 (01:05:00):
Oh with even Marcus Chris. I wasn't for the whole,
not anything the last hour or so, but listening to
that gentleman talking about his check letter had me giggling.
I thought his call was delightful, but it made me which, Yes,

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the other lady leads needs to lighten up, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
Yeah, I thought so too. I thought she's coming in
a bit strong because just because she didn't experience that
other people have, and that doesn't mean that their loss
is not the same. You know, you can't if you
haven't walked in someone's footsteps, you can't really know what
they're anyway.

Speaker 20 (01:05:37):
No, I'm a bit gutted about the post, but have
been for years, let alone just the last announcements because
I'm a bit of an old fashioned girl, well and stuff,
but you know, I'd like to post a card, nephews
and stuff, but they decide It made me reminisce And
I've just been fishing around in my box of spare

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rooms stuff while I was listening to that lady looking
for my two precious telegrams. I probably got about nineteen eight,
which I couldn't believe. I must be a dinosaur. And
the fact I've still got them but I think our
New Zealand posts as well. I was trying to fish
them out to see who who was responsible for telegrams

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in the day where you put a message and then
you put the word stop.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
For a kid, It was great, wasn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:06:26):
I've got two of them from what was my boyfriend
when I was eighteen, who went to Australia on a
one way tucket and left me arrest.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
What a telegram used to say.

Speaker 20 (01:06:40):
He was missed me and to meet him at the
airport in three weeks you'd be back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Bend in jew.

Speaker 20 (01:06:49):
He kind of had, but he was young and we
were both young, so he yeah, he sort of went
off to Australia and said that he was going to
work over there and stay with his sister and just
do what young lads need to do. And it was
Christmas Eve when I waved him off at the airport,
and it was a miserable Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
He came, he came back, he.

Speaker 20 (01:07:12):
Came back in three weeks. He's got his sister to
bring me out to the airport. So I kept the
telegrams from him saying could I meet him at the airport.
And I guess that New Zealand Post as well?

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Can they still send a telegram?

Speaker 31 (01:07:31):
Uh?

Speaker 20 (01:07:32):
Then I have no idea. Since my wedding, when was
the last did.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
You marry that? Did you marry the guy that left
you to go to Sydney?

Speaker 13 (01:07:40):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
I did, great, and that was a good That was
a good marriage.

Speaker 20 (01:07:45):
It was indeed, but it wasn't a long marriage. Unfortunately
he passed away over thirty years ago. Wow, yeah, he
was sick, so he we we.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Yeah, but he must have been young.

Speaker 20 (01:08:00):
He was, he was thirty six.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Although'll be quite special telegrams too, weren't they what I am?

Speaker 20 (01:08:07):
And I just went to hunt for them out my
spare room and I couldn't just to see if they're
New Zealand Post and I think they are, but I
couldn't find them. So maybe tomorrow the next week. Today,
I thought, God, am I dead old that I've got telegrams?

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm sure. Well, I even remember telegrams, but
I can't think I remember going to weddings when they
had teleg But I think I remember telegrams with people
sending exam results and stuff. I might talk more about that. Christ.
I'm going to move on and get to some commercials.
But thank you for that call fifteen to ten. I
didn't collect frint. Maybe that's what I need to do. Bradley,

(01:08:44):
this is Marcus. Thanks for calling and welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
Hi.

Speaker 19 (01:08:48):
How are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Thank you Bradley.

Speaker 19 (01:08:51):
Yeah, I was just calling up with a little bit
of you know, just a bit of a hot take
on the male system. As someone who's nineteen years old,
I am thoroughly surprised that they have not reduced it
down to you know, once or twice a week a
fair amount time ago, and you know, once a week
grew really because realistically the mail system now, with how

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much people use the internet, is a bit underused and
quite frankly a but overstaffed. In my opinion. I get
a letter in the mail about once a month and
that's a Westpac Bank statement. So I'm genuinely surprised they
have not reduced the staff hours earlier, even though it's

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sad that they're reducing it for people who don't have
access to the internet. And yeah, I just don't know
how to use the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Why do you still get your bank statements?

Speaker 19 (01:09:50):
To be completely honest, I haven't been bothered to turn
it off. Yeah, and I feel like it's good to
be able to go through it just look at all.
Oh look I spentless much money.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
But you can do probably you can do that online,
couldn't you.

Speaker 19 (01:10:06):
It's all there, Yes, absolutely, yeah, any bank I've had,
you can just go online and look at it. But yeah,
it's a shame for people who only really communicate over mail.
But I feel like that's not so much of a
big thing anymore, given that landlines and not even landlines anymore,
given that mobile phones are such a thing and they're

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being made easier and easier to use for targeted demographics.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
And one, I wonder what other things you're spending money
on that you go back you think you probably shouldn't.

Speaker 19 (01:10:38):
Well, I went to Costco and bought about and bought
absolute bog shop of just you know, fabric softener because
you can get them a big buckets. And I think
I bought a bunch of bog roll at some point.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
But I was just, what are.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Your clothes like? You got you got woolens.

Speaker 19 (01:10:59):
I don't know, I just saw it.

Speaker 27 (01:11:00):
It was a good deal.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
I've never used fabric I've never used fabric Softna.

Speaker 19 (01:11:05):
Well, you not meant too, because it's actually really bad
for the machine. I found that out about two weeks
after I bought it, so, needless to say, it's just
sat there not doing anything. In regards to fabric softener
if you do use it, because I'm pretty sure well
you know it's wax space. So if you put your
towels and was fabric softener and then pop them in

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the dryer, your towels all of a sudden don't absorb water.
But given that it's wax based and all of that stuff,
if you also put too much fabric softener and leave
it in the dryer, it can cause a fire.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
So there's nothing good about a part of the fact
it was cheap at Costco.

Speaker 19 (01:11:45):
Essentially, yeah, I bought it cheap at Costco, going oh,
use that, and then never did. So I've banned myself
from Costco unless I have an actual valid list. I've
gone over a few times.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Love your talk ready, thank you? Ten to ten any luck,
Good evening, John. This is Marcus.

Speaker 34 (01:12:01):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. John fren Latron here, how are
you going?

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 34 (01:12:06):
I'm speaking on a type one hundred ye Zealand Post
office dial telephone at the moment.

Speaker 9 (01:12:11):
Yes, so there you go.

Speaker 34 (01:12:14):
It's a bit of a post office history, but I'm
staunching in favor of saving the post office, and I
want to express how thousands of people like myself still
use letters and still want post offices, and they need
to be preserved. It's an essential service and I'm absolutely

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shocked at the way it's been run down by both
the government and New Zealand post.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Although there is far far far fewer people sitting, far
far far fewer letters, the world's changed.

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
Well.

Speaker 34 (01:12:52):
The way I see it, Marcus, is that postal communications
are universal, whereas using emails and cell phones. There are
lots of people that can't use emails and cell phones
or won't for a variety of reasons. The government has
to provide a universal service, it has to maintain, therefore
the postal system. But it's not what.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Would be a reason that some one couldn't use emails.

Speaker 34 (01:13:17):
Well, for example, if you don't have funds to if
you don't have money to buy computers or lease computers
or whatever, you can't use computer, or if you maybe
you're old, you don't understand how to use them. You know,
it requires a bit it's sort of an understanding on
how to use a computer. If you can't take that
in you may And then of course there are people
that don't want to use them to see letters and

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receive lee here's one for you. I refuse to receive
emails from anyone if I had to use an email
maybe once, and you know, every so often, and certainly
for short communications like oh I'm going to pop across
down and see you. But in terms of every other communication,
government letters and personal communicator letters between family, I always say,

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send a letter. I like to see a letter with
a stamp on it. And I'm not the only one
like that. And I think that the postal system must
be maintained as a baseline communication system, and it's got
to be put back into order, and not before I
go mar because I think that one of the biggest
things about the decline of mail volume was the deregulation

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of the postal system, you know, because New Zealand posts
are taking less volume while a lot of volume has
been taken by DX mail. You know, even government departments
are using DX so that's taking business away from New
Zealand post. So maybe we need to go back to
an integrated sort of monopoly, state run monopoly on letter cartage,

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which would bring the volume back and provide the financial
underpinning of the to maintain the postal system as a
baseline essential communication service.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
And the people. I mean, email has been around for
a long time.

Speaker 34 (01:15:04):
Well email the way I see emails, there's just an
extension really other facts because trying to communications. When you
think about it, you know, fax machines they came on
the scene, they took away some of the postal business,
you know, and emails have just sort of, yes, they
have continued that. But the emails alone are not the problem.

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They're not the sole problem.

Speaker 5 (01:15:26):
It's this.

Speaker 34 (01:15:28):
See what the other thing to do is that government
departments and governments and governments over is trying to shift
and essential service. They're trying to shift people away from email,
from posted letters. They're trying to shift people onto emails.
They're trying to force them onto emails. So that's sort
of situation going on where services are being cut pas there's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
A lot more efficient and effective, not really effective.

Speaker 34 (01:15:50):
I don't like it. I think it's as I said,
there are lots of people that can't or won't use
emails or texts. What happens to them? Do they just
get thrown by the wayside.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 34 (01:16:03):
In the UK they still have ten thousand post office
is an argument on community FM up here?

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Really, who can you argue with there?

Speaker 16 (01:16:14):
Uh?

Speaker 34 (01:16:15):
He asked me a question and I said, I believe
that we share post offices. And he said, John, everyone's
going to email. I said, in the UK, sir, they
have ten thousand post offices.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Hang on, is this a talk show?

Speaker 34 (01:16:27):
No, it's a quack on who's on the community radio
up here?

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
What's a quake?

Speaker 34 (01:16:33):
Ah, Well, it's a polite way of saying something else,
you know. So we had an argument and I just said, well,
in the UK they've got ten thousand post offices, what
have we got in New Zealand? All the post officers
either being closed down or consolidated. We need to bring
back the post offices and the postal system.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Yeah, I don't think we do, but I appreciate your passion. John,
Thanks for that, Thanks for coming through here till twelve.
If you're on the there's no lines free. But we'll
come back to your people. I'm not seeing a lot
of love for John and his backward thinking. For other
text doors. Someone says he'd probably be when Maile come,
and he'd probably fighting for the carrier pigeon or the

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smoke signal. People think he's a lot of but eving. Pam,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:17:24):
Hello Marcus. I went to Tamroy Girls High. I was
a boarder there. I'd probably danced with the other job,
the other one, John John, and we probably did the
foxtrot and the gypsy tech together. I'm wondering if he

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was the one with the sweety palms you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
I guess most kids would have sweaty palms, wouldn't they
if they're biked across? They biked I think did he
say they biked across the team of girls?

Speaker 22 (01:17:57):
They biked across years to our whole years on a
Saturday night, and a mistress was always with us, supervising
and shepherd owning us around.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Must have been the hell of a night. Were they
dressed up?

Speaker 22 (01:18:12):
No, we didn't dress up. But I must tell you
that I am not Shirley Crawford, and I did not
Chuck John.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Were you Shirley Crawford?

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Though, Pam, No, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:18:27):
No, but he's seen he got a chuck leader Shirley
craw Well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
But he still did. But that didn't seem to have
to tute him anyway, still seemed to be quite fond
of her.

Speaker 14 (01:18:38):
Yeah, well, I don't know who.

Speaker 22 (01:18:40):
No surprise day wrote letters to each other because the
smart girls in the sixth form of four or five
of them had to go over to the boys high
to school for physics and chemistry.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
And sciences, yes, of course.

Speaker 22 (01:18:58):
And they always took the letters backwards and forwards. We
didn't post some of these girls that were smart and
could do things like log or sums what either the
hell they are? They took all their lovely suspectator forwards
with them in their centrals. Yeah, it makes sense anyway.

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I hope John's still listening.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Hi John, I'm sure he will be. Thank you so
much that we'll find I heard the spit the twinty Palms. Hello, Davis,
is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 27 (01:19:31):
Good Marcus here?

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Thank you?

Speaker 26 (01:19:34):
Hey.

Speaker 27 (01:19:36):
I just wanted to compere effect of Anthony versus phoning
someone up straight away, and I got frustrated one one
afternoon to keep my daughter down from I won't say

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the city, what what city, but a city down to
an air alway. And what happened was I tried it
was like something like sixty three backs or whatever. And
then I run, I got frustrated with my with with

(01:20:19):
doing it. Oh the internet. When I rung up the
rung up the company at the time, it reduced like
twenty odd bucks or more. Was amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Yeah, so what's the point? What's to tell me the story?

Speaker 27 (01:20:38):
So okay, yep, yeah, just the difference between I couldn't
I couldn't believe it, like when you actually phone phone
them up and talk to someone from into city. It

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was a bus trip, you know. Yeah, yeah, so that
was it was quite a significant difference.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
So between phoning and booking online within the city.

Speaker 27 (01:21:12):
Yeah, it was so so different.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
And the bigger cost was booking in person or on
the internet.

Speaker 27 (01:21:20):
The bigger cost was on the internet.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Okay, well, I'm surprised to hear that.

Speaker 27 (01:21:27):
And just before I finished that was all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Where was David? Where was a trip from? Because I
know the inter city quite well.

Speaker 27 (01:21:37):
Okay, so it was christ Church to Eshburton and then
Eshburton returned.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Okay, pwabus returned.

Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
No, it was a bit.

Speaker 27 (01:21:47):
It was eighty three bucks trip and then but when
I find the mat it reduced right back to like
sixty seven backs, and I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
Ah, it's interesting. I'll find out more about that. I'm
just booking my next inter city speak at trip as
we speak, thirteen past ten, Margaret, this is Marcus.

Speaker 31 (01:22:07):
Welcome, Oh believing Marcus, I better nineteen sixty four, I
actually delivered telegrams around christ Church.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Wow.

Speaker 31 (01:22:23):
I delivered them and all around christ Church. And I
did that for about fourteen months, and then I went
into the toll room worked in the toll room in
christ Church, and you know when overseas, but I don't
use email or a computer. I've got to land the line.

Speaker 17 (01:22:45):
And I don't like.

Speaker 31 (01:22:46):
Their the cell phones or the or the computer because
I'm really, really honestly can't use them. I don't know
how to use them, you know. So I'm a rather
old fashioned girl.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
And will it be a problem for your rails down
if mails down to twice a week delivery?

Speaker 31 (01:23:06):
Well, I mean I don't get a lot of mail,
but what I do get I'm quite pleased to have.
I do send mail overseas. I've got a niece overseas,
and i've got a friend in Australia, so I do
send mail over there. But I guess I'll just be

(01:23:28):
hitting it when arrives.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
I mean, yeah, just tell me. Going back to your
job as a telegram deliverer, did you have your own
Did they provide you with a vehicle?

Speaker 31 (01:23:42):
No, I had my pushbike.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
So you'd go to the office and they would give
you a telegram to be delivered in an envelope. Is
that right that hand that to you?

Speaker 16 (01:23:52):
Yes?

Speaker 31 (01:23:52):
Yes, yes, so I'd have a pilotelegrame. So I would
I go in and I would have to deliver polegrams
around Shirley, and I get all those torolegrams, put them
in order, and go around Shirty and delivered all those telegrams.
And if I had to know, sometimes I have to
go out to Rickitton and deliver telegrams around Ricketon and

(01:24:15):
other ones go around, say Feneralton and Pepin that way.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Would would you knock on the door on the head
to answer yes, yes.

Speaker 31 (01:24:27):
I wouldn't put me in a letter box. No, No,
I would knock on the door and I would ask
for this particular person and they would get there. They
would coming that I'd give them the telegram.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Would you know what was on Margaret? Do you know?
Would you know what was on the telegram.

Speaker 31 (01:24:42):
No, I would not, because that was it was in
a sealed envelope.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Okay, So I presume sometimes you would not. I presumed
sometimes you were bringing tragic news. Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:24:55):
Yes?

Speaker 31 (01:24:56):
Yes, much like actually amazing enough. It would be a
written form of email. Yes, be a written form of email.

Speaker 15 (01:25:07):
The email.

Speaker 2 (01:25:09):
I don't think you get an email to say that
your partners died. But you would have got a telegram
in those days, wouldn't you.

Speaker 31 (01:25:15):
Yes, Yes, she would have done. She would have done.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
What sort of Margaret, What sort of bike?

Speaker 31 (01:25:21):
I was just normally push bike?

Speaker 7 (01:25:23):
Okay, just a push bike yep with gears that we had.

Speaker 31 (01:25:28):
Men delivered fire out like down to sun that Mount
pleasant Kaipoy and down to church church corner. Those were
fire out ones were delivered by men and cars.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
Okay, yeah, how many would you deliver a day?

Speaker 31 (01:25:51):
Oh gosh, I wouldn't. I wouldn't know. I maybe ever
thought of counting. I'm going to just get this is
going backer, Well, sixty four you know only sixty four
I did it, so and I'm giving yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:26:03):
Okay, well yeah it was in.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Sixteen at great job, you've been young.

Speaker 31 (01:26:08):
Sixteen, Yes, sixteen seventeen, and it was it was a
good job, it really was. It was a good job.
So yes, and then went into the tour room and
that was a good job too, so.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
I And no one told you what any of the
telegrams were about.

Speaker 31 (01:26:31):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no. That that was
never ever discussed. And you never knew. You just delivered
those telegrams there and I sealed them. You delivered them.
You did not ask anything, and you just left it
at that, and that was it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Love you to talk. Thank you so much, Margaret. Once
upon a time in the eighties, for a long time
there and maybe the nineties, there were singing telegrams and
they were atrocious things. The whole room was sort of avert.
Their eyes looked through their hands, embarrassed. But if someone
walk in and sing some song should come back. My

(01:27:09):
sister has been a post he for twenty seven years.
She says he's in the post as culling postal deliveries
to save thousands of dollars. They don't want to replace
or appear their aging fleet of e bikes, which were
actually sticking hand when they bought them. Then there were
a few hundred vans that deliver rurally seventeen past ten.
It's all about the mail. That's twenty past ten. Ricketts Marcus, welcome,

(01:27:31):
good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:27:32):
Good a mate, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:27:34):
Rick? Yeah, hey, listen, just sort of thinking about this
whole postal thing. Back in nine in seventy three, I
started out My first job out of school was a
telegram boy and doing what that last said before, you know,
but we used to actually spread that. Come up to
tic Tate and you you knew what teleerram said and

(01:27:56):
you've got of them. It was quite funny because you
get some of the older people backon none in seventy
four and they'll be terrified because I think they'd remember
rulebar two or something like that. Wags are terrible. Getting
telegrams were terrible back then, however, and I stayed in
the post office tool I don't know, for another ten

(01:28:17):
to fifteen years, and then got out of the done things,
and in my dotage, I picked up a job and
was doing a rural delivery job. Done that for five
six years. And the whole thing about cutting down the
mail delivery is what they're actually cutting down, I would

(01:28:37):
think would be cutting down actual delivery of letters, but
like only got out of the rural delivery a year
or so. Gay, but the actual straight that they're taking
is just huge. It's just you know, you've got Temo
coming out and all sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
A couple of questions for your reck Okay, how often
would you deliver?

Speaker 19 (01:29:06):
Well?

Speaker 5 (01:29:06):
Which on on the d.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
Yeah, would you be? If would you be? Would it
be daily?

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
Hell yes, okay, and something Sometimes you'd have to actually
do the run twice because you couldn't couldn't put on your.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Beer, and there would be letters every day.

Speaker 5 (01:29:24):
Yeah, but backer all okay, And the letters were going down,
but the freight was going up. So if you if
you were to order something off Timo and you lived
up somewhere up in the bush, you're going to give
that anyway. But like like all around the whole depa

(01:29:47):
that I was, and everybody's saying, why are we why
are we delivering mail every day? You know, because that
was going down, down down, But like I mean envelopes,
but the parcels and all letters going up up up, there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Would be no extra it would be no extra hazeld
lovering mail because it'd be hard any letters.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
Right, yeah, yeah, you know well used to may you know,
because you might hit to stop at a litter box
where you haven't got a parcel for understand. Yeah, but
the short as to it is, Look, you know everybody's going, oh,
can't it my mouth, thank you mouth whilst talking to

(01:30:25):
your mail. It might be just and a half later
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
You know what percentage of the farmer folk? What percentage
of this stuff is timo rubbish?

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
Loads? Like yeah, loads a lot of people, a lot
of people, and like back in the day when first
came out, when they packed him out in those orange pegs.
You get to sort your sort your you freight it, well, well,

(01:30:59):
passage are called freight. You get the whole dip over
bit cea of orange.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Well, so it's a lot of it. Do you know
what that? Do you know what they're buying?

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Ah, well I can tell you a story, but I'd
have to probably tell you a bit about offline parcel
was dry britting on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
The floor, you understand.

Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
Yeah, but no, look you know, no, you don't know
what they're buying. You deliver it. You know, I probably
knew more about telegrams I was delivering back and none
In seventy three.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
And in your in your day when you're delivering telegrams, right, Rick, Yeah,
did you read them before you delivered them?

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
Well, you had to take them up at ticket tape, That's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
What I thought. And then you and then you'd assemble them.
You'd stick them on the bit of paper, would you.

Speaker 28 (01:31:49):
That's one.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Yeah, yeah, And you know, like you know, I used
to get the wedding telegrams or I think they used
to call them make their greetings telegrams. Sure, and you've
got all the winding telegrams saying good to see, you've
roll You've gone from the little bloody tag back to
a role on roll off them all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Watched the line, all those sorts of what were most
what were most other telegrams.

Speaker 5 (01:32:15):
About generally just sort of there's a lot of business telegrams,
I suppose, you know, like I was in a little
town in south and yeah, it was you just been
just sort of telling people, giving people updates on what

(01:32:37):
was happening. Like I'll tell you what a lot of
things went through was what the sheep were selling for
somewhere and christ Church or out there, something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
And there must be a lot of stuff coming on
a holiday and meet the train at three o'clock or
stuff like that. A lot of that time and date stuff.
Would that be right?

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
No, No, not really, there's more sort of as mostly
it was, well, I remember when Normal was run into
Parliament there was a lot of parliamentary rob tolboys I
think was the go parliament down there, and we had

(01:33:18):
a lot of parliamentary telegrams I suppose. But but look, Tea,
it's a long Yeah, you're dragging some some stuff right
out of the back of my memory. But but I mean,
you know, everybody's worrying about the male going down there,

(01:33:38):
But well the short is the only reason Mars going
down is because people have stopped stopped sending leaders. Yeah,
so what would you do it? Every day? There's a business?
What would you what would you do it every day
a f year until one or two in teen every
two days?

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
Camp Camp can't help but agree. Thank you for that.
Twenty six past ten, twenty nine away from living o'clock, Louise,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 35 (01:34:06):
Well ah, hi Marcus. Yeah, interesting conversations from one experience
or the other. Really, I just want to say that
I haven't eve been listening since nine I don't know
if anyone's mentioned this. It's such a waste of paper

(01:34:26):
which comes from trees, so they have to cut down
trees to give you. I remember the insurance spells and
the bank statements, pages and pages and pages, and I
used to feel so guilty about, you know, receiving all
this paper because I knew that a tree had to

(01:34:48):
die or I don't know how many trees make up
favorbook whatever, and we need trees. So email is wonderful. Yeah, yeah,
and we've had years to get used to it. I
was resisting the first year, but that was twenty five
years ago. And people who say, oh, I'm not going

(01:35:09):
to do it, I'm not gonna well, you know, I
know they were brought up with it.

Speaker 26 (01:35:14):
Neither was I.

Speaker 35 (01:35:15):
And it just it's not the nineteen sixties anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Sorry, But in a century, a huge change. There's been
phones and TV and fax machines and computers. I mean,
all of it's been revolutionary technology. And we've got used
to all of it in time, haven't we.

Speaker 35 (01:35:31):
Yes, it took me a while, but now I wouldn't.
I mean, I wouldn't go past. Online banking is brilliant.
It's just yes, it's revolutionary, but I I did enjoy
John with his Chuck letter.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
Well, I still can't work out what people at what
male people are sending. I can't work out you know, people,
because I don't think people are sending long letters to
people anyway like they once did. I mean, I think
probably probably the most I just thought of this the most.
The most disruptive thing for letters in this country has

(01:36:06):
been that now phone calls are pretty well free right
around the country. For a long time they were. A
toll call out of your own city was very expensive,
so you'd send a letter instead because people didn't phone
each other because they couldn't afford it.

Speaker 35 (01:36:20):
Yes, yes, that is the wonderful thing too. I've been
on the hospital several times because they keep sending me
the appointments by letter in the wind around here. Sometimes,
you know, I got I was lucky. I got one
appointment for blowing out the letter box and it was
sodden on the other side of the driveway, you know,
And just would you please send me emails like I've asked,

(01:36:45):
because you know, I nearly missed that appointment, a very
important appointment, as it turned out, only just because when
my neighbor saw the letter blocks, Luise.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
You emails don't blow away, do they exactly?

Speaker 35 (01:36:59):
Exactly? And they say paper, and I think it's very
important to say paper. And we can still if we're
go on to burn, say card, you can still get
birthday cards. I recently put all my birthday cards and
everything like that into a great big scrap box some
bit SMaL it's nice to keep. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've

(01:37:19):
been sitting around in bags forever. So I thought i'd
better do something, and so i'd never you know, people
need to start to, you know, stop being so stubborn
and move on. You know, it's not the same as
it used to be. The world trained. Some of that
I don't like very much, but you just have to

(01:37:41):
get on with us and do it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Nice to talk to Lauise, Thank you for that. Twenty
six to eleven. Hello, Jill, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
Yes, that's just one thing I'd like to say is
in the day, people were getting married in a whore
or something, and all the mail would be getted at
the local post office and it would be delivered to
the bridle table for the couple on arrival to undo
for the evening or whenever. Yeah, and that was very

(01:38:10):
common in its day.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Now was that just telegrams or letters and telegrams?

Speaker 4 (01:38:15):
Letters and telegrams.

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
I didn't know that. That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:38:18):
Yeah, they used to do They used to do telegrams,
but as time were on, originally it was letters, but
then later on they did telegrams and they were picked
up and they were never opened. That all was tied
with a ribbon and they'd be left there and the
bridal copy would be able to open them on the
day at their reception.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
And would those letters who would those letters be addressed to?
Would they would there be a special.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Place it would be addressed. They would be addressed to
where the wedding reception.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Was to be. Understand, Okay, if it's I would be
saying mister and the new mister and miss such and such, Cleveland. Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
It's interesting and it was really exciting because some people
got big bundles and some people got little, but that
was all part of the of the whole day. They
would arrived there the past the mail would be there
for them. And yeah, and that was just from people
that were you know, that weren't invited or whatever or

(01:39:18):
couldn't come, and that was.

Speaker 22 (01:39:20):
What they did.

Speaker 4 (01:39:22):
Like that I have got in my possession at the moment,
masses and matters of HMS on Her Majesty's service, as
my husband worked for a government department. Yes, and they
are all addressed and they all have the Thruppenny stamp.

Speaker 2 (01:39:41):
Nice to hear from it, Jill, Thank you so much.
Twenty four to eleven, twenty two from eleven. If you
want to be a part of the show, feel free
to come through. Hello, Matthew, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
Hi Marcus. I've just read clearly just my thoughts and
my brain here. A little bit is that you know,
like for example and lower hut here at Wellington, Wellington,
is that you know when you to have the it's
called a hot news. And they used to deliver a

(01:40:11):
hot news. And the hot news was very useful, not
always for you know, reading and just looking at the pictures.
It was also good to use as a window cleaner
the newspaper. Yes, it was also good for mulch the garden.
It was very useful. That it was very useful. And
what I found a bit sad is when they closed

(01:40:34):
the local hot news the hot News office down here
in Lower Heart, which obviously you can pick up. They
no longer deliver the hot news to Lower Hut Here
is that it also impacted the disabled community. Now, the
disabled community was the main when you got home from

(01:40:55):
your day at work, it was the disabled community that
were employed, you know, maybe less than five dollars an hour.
And it was a disabled the community that obviously went
to your letterboxes and put the newspaper in your letter box.
And now all of those jobs in the whole entire
Wellington Lower Heart, Winery Marta, Upper Heart, all those jobs

(01:41:19):
are gone for the disabled community. And you know, I
work alongside a mental health and IC people, and I
work with people, and they are the people that are
finding it extremely hard just to find on the modern

(01:41:39):
day economy that five dollars is their pay rate per hour.
Five dollars a pay rate. Is criminal that the government
would offer that minimum income to the disadvantage community. And
that's all I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
Say, Matthew. And it's nice to hear from you, and now
is to hear you sounding in such good form. I
would say that the reason those the reason all those
community newspapers disappear is because all thetizing went to Facebook
and YouTube. That's what's happened to those. So does don't
make any money anymore? So yeah, so yeah, So, I

(01:42:15):
mean that's forces beyond everyone's control, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:42:19):
So we're confused who gets paid money and who doesn't
get paid money. And we won't even talk about what
the government wants to come up with next of jobs
seekers don't even go there. But you know, it's a
pretty greatable community that did the work and rarely did
the work. And I know people that worked in newspapers.

(01:42:40):
They employed thousands of people to deliver the Heart news
and the pamphlets and the disabled community. The people that
were delivering the mail were so happy and positive about it.
And can you imagine how many jobs are gone, not
just from the people delivering you know, the pamphlets and

(01:43:01):
the heart news, but the people that had to be
the publishers, that all organizers that could help these people
to be on their job prospectives, to be able to
have these five dollars an hour. Yes, it's just very difficult, Marcus.
It's it's very New Zealand's going for a difficult time

(01:43:25):
and we all know this, and some of your callers
are right, it's because the Internet has been established and
we all have to be self sufficient, But what about
the ones that can't be self sufficient?

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
I'm hearing you, Matthew, Thanks so much for you called
eighteen to eleven. Hello Josephin, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 32 (01:43:45):
Yes, well, I was like to say when I was
younger that Polygon used to come in machine fans to
the farm with the newspapers. And one day there's Polygon
in the time that's saying that the are coming home

(01:44:05):
from the war. Wow, and that to be at the
Longa Tar station.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
To meet the Spain Oh a wonderful thing.

Speaker 32 (01:44:15):
Yeah, I don't remember that. So we all dressed up
and went down to Nunga Tar station and the men
all came office the training, some of who didn't come home,
but lots came the home. They were all wearing their
rays and they had their role over their shoulder and

(01:44:36):
it was just marvelous. But that's how they got the
message in the Queen Can.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
Thanks so much, Josephine. Nice to hear that. Hello, David,
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:44:46):
Here is Marcus David.

Speaker 6 (01:44:47):
Here, David.

Speaker 9 (01:44:49):
I got a number of letters that go back to
nineteen fourteen and One of them is from my grandfather
from Egypt. Oh, here was stationed. These soldiers were stationed
in Egypt before they went to the various theaters of war.

(01:45:11):
So there's the Australian ution soldiers. Yeah. Yeah, so he
wrote about life in the camp in Egypt and very interesting.
And now I got another letter from my grandmother about
nineteen fourteen. She took about the mail only going out
once a week, so those days would have been by horseback,

(01:45:35):
so the marment would have just had a saddle bag
or something. And yeah. But anyhow, when I was growing
up in those days, we walked to school primary school,
but we used to click the mail on the way home.
With the mail, the bread was also delivered by the marlment,

(01:45:57):
so he had a standing order of bread. And because
those days the red was was made up of two hours, yes,
and we used to wreak the red and you eat
the middle section because we had a driveway about the
clime of the long so that was part of our

(01:46:19):
routine at score, click the mail and eat some of
the red on the on the way home. Okay, delivered
newspaper as well as the red as well as the mail.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Whereabouts was the farm just out of one you okay,
nice to hear David. Thanks about fifteen to eleven twelve
away from eleven. Good evening, Jason, this is Marcus.

Speaker 36 (01:46:47):
Welcome, Hello Jas, but first I'm calling hi.

Speaker 9 (01:46:53):
Hi.

Speaker 36 (01:46:53):
I'll keep the short because about the swat trucks over.
Just wondering about all of the posts redurcing. I actually
am a driver in then Post contracted out to them.
Just I haven't kept up with the news. Is what's
that all about?

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
They the government have signed an agreement with you Zealand
Post that they're able to reduce the number of deliveries
to twice a week as opposed to three, and from
four a week to three a week for rural areas.

Speaker 36 (01:47:25):
Once your opinion on all that, I think it's a
good thing or a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Well, it's just got to happen. I mean, no one's
sending letters. You know, it's cost of fortune to send them, right,
They've got to try and make money.

Speaker 36 (01:47:36):
Well, I do agree with that, especially worth by salf
I haven't sent letters and ages, but also just the
running of the trucks and the business. You know, I
can put a thousand dollars worth of leaders of Diesel
in the truck, and some of these trucks were in
you know, six days a week, so that's six thousand leaders.

(01:47:58):
Then you've got your on road costs. Then you've got
all your your courier drivers for your vans that are
contracted out, You've got your staff, You've got all that,
and I think people some people are missing missing the
fact of everything's going up and you've got all these
other people that they have to pain and you've got
to cut cost somewhere. And I do kind of think

(01:48:20):
the technology side of things of you know, if you
fall behind, you get left behind. You know, the will
the world's changing. I'm loving technology, you know, sending emails
and all that.

Speaker 31 (01:48:31):
You know.

Speaker 36 (01:48:32):
The other day I had to go to a call
I can fly out to be able to be a witness,
and so they did a video call and talking to
the lady there, it was fantastic. They've had least people
coming through. It's it's streamlined absolutely everything.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
I imagine the only other thing they could do to
keep the post going more regularly is to charge a
lot more for letters. But I think already if they
charge much more, no one will see them anyway. So
they're kind of in a bind.

Speaker 36 (01:49:00):
Yeah, yeah, so it's it's a double leaved sword. And
you dan if you do, damned if you don't. And
I do kind of think of it of what's the
point of keeping a mailing service around for just the
old person that you know that's a little bit upset with,
I mean nothing against her, but for the majority of

(01:49:22):
people sending letters, it's a bit pointless. While in terms
of state government, for security, that's that's the only thing
I would think that they would keep it for because
it's tried and true. But for everything else, it's you know,
we've got emails, we've got everything for that, and it's
a waste of money just to see leaders for for example,
all of the voting papers. I got a leader for that.

(01:49:45):
But that's a waste of fuel and you are cutting
down trees and shit just for that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
Okay, thanks Jason, keeping it short, Marcus, I dare not
phone as I'm so angry. Then's it been used an
excuse to ignore male theft, excess to democratic process for
the poor and other groups? Also, Marcus, I remember telegram
has been delivered to my cabins before to the UK
in nineteen seventy. Also in later years to the attorney

(01:50:11):
hospital where our babies arrived. I guess there'll also be
telegrams from the hospital telling families about the birth of babies.
Am I right there? If way I at our hospital
appointments can't be sent as email as they are printed scan,
then email free labor intensive computer system needs an upgrade, Marcus.

(01:50:31):
Although Louise is happy about saving trees and papers, there
is a downside the loss of one hundred and forty
nine jobs here and talking with the closing of the
paper mill, that's progress, Binny. I don't know if the
closing of the paper mill is because people are using
this paper. I hadn't thought of that. There could be
the reason I haven't heard that has been quoted. I'll
tell you what with all these people getting stuff on

(01:50:52):
TIMU and stuff a lot of cardboard out there these days,
there has been more cardble than there's ever been, Marcus.
I seen all my greeting cards electronically from an app
on my phone, and it costs me absolutely nothing. With
the cost of cards being at times four or five dollars,
I save heaps. Emails are for mindless slaves. Letters sent

(01:51:12):
by postar what sensible, intelligent people use.

Speaker 14 (01:51:16):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
Good luck with your two deliveries a week, Marcus. I
missed the weekly matters in the Lillver box. No, only
get them at Christmas time. Boom right, there was a
right there with have an environmentally conscious lady. Thank god, Marcus.
I used to receive the telegram recording. In my mind
now every letter on the alphabet was covered. M for Mary,
A for Apple, RFA Roberts, C for Charlie, you for Uncle,

(01:51:38):
is for Sally. Then you read it back to the
center to confirm good old days. Love your show, Marcus Stelly. Here,
I'm in my seventies. I paid for a long period
I paid for a long period of time to trial
in the computer for myself. It was a waste of
time and money. I don't use the internet, email, computer, etc.
It's refrustrating. I don't understand it. I absolutely have no

(01:51:59):
desire interest in trying to learn such technology. I use
letters and stamps by sending mail. Bradley's comment of people
my age not using their computer technology is unacceptable and disrespectful.
Bradly doesn't walk in another's shoes. Thank you, Marcus, and
joy listening to you as you are always patient, respectful,
of your callers, and you don't use bad language. Blessings,

(01:52:20):
Marcus Stella. Why would you use bad language? Do you
know how many people will have to reset their driver's
license and will they be prosecuted for bribery? No, I
don't think they know the ones that did it. Just
all those people that went to that station and got
their license they will have to rese it. I think
it was about three hundred and sixty, but I don't

(01:52:43):
think they know which ones paid the bribe. It seems
pretty sketchy, eh, when how many people they've killed on
their oads, those drivers with their wonky licenses. You thought
of that pretty staggering that they could be bribed, Marcus.

(01:53:05):
I love receiving cards by mail and find email impersonal example.
I always like to write sympathy liz or cards to
close friends who have lost. Someone asked the caller wanted
to go back to more post offices. Maybe we should
go back to writing on tablets as well? Hi, loll.
Fifty million people in the UK, so of course they

(01:53:27):
still have one thousand post offices. We currently have eight hundred.
That caller should do the math. Seems like we've got
a higher ratio. I think that's what they're saying, Marcus,
that last guy and John is really in denial. The
three friends he has can't sustain the cost of one posting,
even if they send ten letters a day rural mail.

(01:53:48):
We get our local paper, maybe five farming papers a week.
Used to get supermarket and warehouse brochures and many more
keep us in touch with our community. The real cost
per lititor ends it posts at least three times the
letter stamp price needs some national poster letter days. Marcus,
how do I send you a telegram? Don't think you can?

(01:54:11):
Someone says Cisco the only supermarke you have to play
to get into. I think you mean Costco. I think
people find a really good value for money. When I
was young, I said Christmas cards to famous people. I
got run reply from Ronald Reagan, the Queen and Rob muldoon.
He continues sending Christmas cards. There you go, Marcus. I

(01:54:33):
posted an air track an air tag tracker to my
sister in Toronto. Quite amazing watching it track. I overtook
the truck it was been carried in before it got
on a plane across the world and ended up going
through Cuba. Wow. Anyway, get in touch if you want
to talk Oha eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine ten nine two to text Marcus was the last

(01:54:57):
call of sousatives on another planet. I think we had
no daily delivery in my in the city for met
for years. That's from Mary Wow. Two antagonists and a
row Bob the boiler Maker. I was a contract for
friendsed couriers two thousand and seven, two thousand we delivered
rural post to the Royal Post contract as it was

(01:55:18):
not just ended post involved. I think it's the phone
calls are replaced. Mostly it's because people have a good
chin wag the whole time. Now, can you get this
guy some therapy hasn't gone over his girlfriend from fifty
years ago? Well she might have been the one, Oh Marcus,
superb topic male was the only contact between my parents

(01:55:39):
in Vicago and Cracow, Poland in nineteen fifty onwards. Letter
writing is so much safer this modern technology. Well, people call,
I mean toll calls, don't expert you know, people call
your call overseas. It's not a problem. That would be
my take. Hi, Fe, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:55:57):
Hello Marcus. I'm not going to be rude with him.
In a shardy mood. Oh God, Monday, I can say worse.
I'day I received two leaders from the New Zealand Transport Department.
Well you know what they are?

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
Fine?

Speaker 17 (01:56:15):
Yes, I worked for twelve years picking up special needs
children and I have to go from I don't really
know the area, but I have to go from Dawson
Road in the afternoon, down through the motorway down to
Oe Tar over Who and then turn right into Great
South Road. If you know the arean, Yes, leave o

(01:56:36):
to Who, leve atarret quarter to three and expect me
to be at Mount Rochman Special Needs Children, Elbourne Street
at three o'clock. No way can one do that. So
the eighteenth of eighteenth of August is the way back
the sixty k fifty k area. I've got a fine

(01:56:58):
for sixty ten k's over thirty dollars. That was a Monday,
two fifty four Tuesday at two fifty two. The next
day the nineteenth fifty K area, I did a sixty
one over What was the fine? Eighty dollars? It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Why don't you pick your bus up earlier?

Speaker 17 (01:57:32):
Well, I can't pick the it up until one could
comes out of quarter to three, especially in each children.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
One could come out for different schools today.

Speaker 17 (01:57:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then I have to go all
the way over who's flared out on the motor.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
It sounds unreasonable. Okay, so you've got you've got a
you've got to talk to your bosses about that because
it doesn't work.

Speaker 17 (01:57:53):
And he said to me, well, i'll take the second
good off you just for one boy. But I mean,
you know, one k over and it's set what forty
dollars eighty and thirty fifty dollars for one k over?

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Well they've got to have a mark somewhere because it's
the bigger you go, the bigger you find. So yeah,
I know, I think that's understandable. But that's unfortunate for you.
That happened that just right on the CUSP.

Speaker 17 (01:58:19):
Sixty one eighty dollars. But I paid it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
But it's it's good the boss paid one of them.
That sounds like a good guy.

Speaker 17 (01:58:28):
No, no, he isn't paid one. I've paid.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
Or don't you say the boss did? What did you say?

Speaker 4 (01:58:32):
He said?

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
The boss? You spoke the boss? What he say?

Speaker 17 (01:58:36):
The boss just said, you've got to leave it? Hey
for again? Fee You've got a couple of tickets to
you again. But I had to go like here to
get the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Yeah, but he needs to he needs to change your
route or get something to pick out the kid. That's
got to be a quarter to three.

Speaker 29 (01:58:51):
That's the one.

Speaker 17 (01:58:52):
As I've told him. I've told him so, I said,
never mind, take one kid off. So I've just only
got the one kid, and then i can go as slow.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
As chasing trafficful.

Speaker 17 (01:59:01):
For you, so a little probably after twelve years, I
probably two tickets of one day, two days, and two
letters in one day.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
Nice hear from your faith. Thank you for that. Eleven eleven.
We used to have a private bags and all the
letters to a single address would arrive in a large
bag in the mailroom would sort them. Then the office
boy would take them around on a mail trolley. They're
very good. Our post is still rides a pushpike deliver mail.
I live in Levin. That's from Lee. That lady was right.

(01:59:35):
Telegrams were great fun at weddings back in the sixties
and seventies. Were usually the best man read them out
after his speech about the groom and his bride. They
were usually full of sexual innuendo. I believe I was
a versatile rugby player and playing a resuccessful senior team
in Marston during the seventies. My team sent this telegram

(01:59:58):
best wishes and congratulations Marge and Bob on your wedding day.
Hey Marge, we have tried Bob in several positions without
much success. Hope you have better luck. There we go.
Case in point. I reckon you're gonna run a great
show on these telegrams of yester year. Marcus, best wishes,
keep up the great work. Bob Pringle, great player in

(02:00:19):
a dale Bringo, Well, I'm gonna where he ended up?
What position? Get in touch if you want to talk
here till twelve thirteen past eleven. Have you got anything
to say? That's what we're about tonight, Oh waight t
one hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two detects

(02:00:43):
if you want to talk about the mail. But yes,
I mean they're quite right, no one's posting it. They well,
I mean they're losing a fortune. Whether they need some
drones or something. I don't know what the quicker way
to deliver is, but you might want to talk about that.
Do get in touch if you want to good evening,

(02:01:04):
Christus is Marcus? Welcome you get back again?

Speaker 3 (02:01:08):
Good?

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (02:01:09):
Chris so here the post driver just sitting in Auckland
now with mail on board. Yes, just such a small part.
You know, people will get a bit. I'm saying he's
going to post the top of post anymore. It's parcels,
you know, my tracks as parcels less than team seemed

(02:01:30):
would be male. We're going to look.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
Are you with your volume?

Speaker 16 (02:01:38):
Chris?

Speaker 2 (02:01:40):
Are you busy than you've ever been with with parcels
and stuff?

Speaker 12 (02:01:44):
I mean, we're gearing up for the peak. At the
moment it's pretty, it's but quiet, but that's the time
of the year economy, and it's a longda you know,
we're gearing up ready for peak. So it'll go'll get there.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Yeah, but I'm talking year on year. Are people sending
more parcels?

Speaker 12 (02:02:03):
I yeah, I couldn't really comment on that, to be honest.
Looking outside of.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
My warehouse, sure, because there's also planes flying stuff around,
isn't there.

Speaker 16 (02:02:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:02:15):
So so my first stop is the airport for what
we call our christ jovinight. So that's all the South
Island overnight stuff.

Speaker 37 (02:02:23):
You know.

Speaker 12 (02:02:23):
So there's probably we look at volume oys on a
on a busy night, I might hear maybe more more
cubic meters of male. I suppose a sorry, as the
partials to Christchurch tonight was probably only about three. I
suppose work without rugby, the containers were used are a bit different.

(02:02:46):
But yeah, probably cubic meters would be what most people
can understand something. So there's only one track.

Speaker 2 (02:02:54):
Does that go on to a designated a special insured
post flight.

Speaker 12 (02:03:00):
Part of the Yeah, yeah, through we call it air posts.
So yeah, I'm not sure the total logistics struck once
it's yeah, but you know mail everyone sort of worried
about mail, and then the volume will even in the
last of a couple of years that the volume's probably

(02:03:21):
he had dropped by well over half, you know, went
down to we'll go back to cubic meters. Probably been
a cubic meter of mail. I've got on here for
all of told of it. It's probably every night, you know.
So there's not a lot, not a lot of mail
at all.

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
No, no, well, yeah, and people used to say that
your people have said about two days a week on average.
It's hardly any.

Speaker 12 (02:03:43):
Yeah, that's right. You know, the beginning of the month
is always busy. Around the twentieth of the month obviously, but
a volume increase. Magazines are probably one of the biggest
pretty pretty pretty bulky. So yeah, it reached media will
do a lot, a lot for them.

Speaker 16 (02:03:59):
You know, you can get.

Speaker 12 (02:04:00):
Several cubes on the right right day, so then coming out.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
So I don't know why magazines haven't gone why people
aren't reading more of those online.

Speaker 12 (02:04:13):
Yeah, well who knows. I'm supposed to stir a tactile
sort of thing of yeah, the pages, you know. But yeah,
when you look at a carrier delivery, you seen the
carrier partil out for a d L which is like
an envelope size, You're probably looked at about six bucks.
I think you don't just send that out anywhere in
New Zealand. So I don't even know how much a

(02:04:34):
letter is. How long I've seen a letter.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
Yeah, look, I don't know. I made you be about
three dollars, but I don't know if I'm right or
not with that.

Speaker 12 (02:04:43):
Yeah, so carrier overnight there it is the next day
to the door. You know, you might not necessarily have
signature delivery, but I mean you can always rung up
and I'll give you a GPS coordinate or a photo
of the door. Things like that. You have to clients
been authority to leave, so you know there's more where
out you put it in the mailbox. And I hate

(02:05:03):
to say it, but you know who knows that good luck.
But yeah, Curry is probably a little bit a little
bit less likely to get lost. I think, you know,
we don't them try and lose stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:05:15):
But Chris, I think I think the courier service the
last couple of years has become outstanding. They're so good.

Speaker 12 (02:05:23):
It's it's phenomenal when you see the back end of it,
you know, the orkhand Processing center, what goes on up there.
It's a pretty swisch sort of base. I'm measured it
the other day. It's killing me to drive right around it.
So yeah, it's it's a pretty big, big place. And yeah,
it's the amount of stuff that goes on manually. Don't

(02:05:44):
still most parcels, all parcels that are handled, you know,
they're all well handled by hand. It's quote phenomenal how
much it gets moved around at night, you know we're
all overnight and stuff for over run and yeah, really.

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
Really amazing, Chris, do you said, you're in the South Island.

Speaker 12 (02:06:01):
Right, I'm an Auckland, so I kin run.

Speaker 2 (02:06:06):
Okay, that's what. Yeah, when you said Todd, I wasn't
quite sure about that. I appreciate that, Chris, thank you
for that. Hello, Graham, this is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (02:06:12):
Welcome, Yeah, Granning from yourself and anywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
I'm looking at my diffion window right now we speak,
and here is the.

Speaker 21 (02:06:20):
Supermoon, also known as the averagey moons. It's just slightly
closer to the Earth and normal, so it looks a
bit bigger, and it's just up there and looking absolutely gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (02:06:33):
Could you tell me, Graham, how elliptical is the Moon's orbit?

Speaker 21 (02:06:40):
It's slightly elliptical.

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
What's the difference. What's the difference between it's epig and
it's epogy.

Speaker 14 (02:06:49):
Average is when the Moon is slightly further away. There's
about thirty about.

Speaker 3 (02:07:02):
The moon look a bit makes the moon look a bit.

Speaker 2 (02:07:04):
Further away at the moment the moon it is further away.

Speaker 14 (02:07:08):
Because it's it's a peeragey moon.

Speaker 3 (02:07:13):
They have other names for it in popular.

Speaker 21 (02:07:19):
Press or whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
But yeah, I'm trying to keep it non well they non.

Speaker 21 (02:07:25):
Technical, so I don't get people confused. Telling us that
if you're talking about the male.

Speaker 14 (02:07:33):
I used to travel with a young kiddie in the
Lake Sas in his sixties, a lot across the Kenavary
planes at night on the Midnight Express or what it
was the late nine Express from in Vocable, all about
the Christchurch and those beautiful jheem change are thunder across
the Canvary planes over sixty miles an hour, sometimes even higher.

(02:07:59):
And they had a one particular wagon where all the
males and then go to the mail sorting here.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
And what we Why were you were traveling as a child.

Speaker 21 (02:08:12):
Yeah, because I was a very anxious guy and I
was out sort of Bruce is on the world as
it were, and I love, as I've seen trains, so
I had about five generations of.

Speaker 3 (02:08:26):
So would you would you just go to the shop?

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
Would you go into cal and Christ Church and back
just for for a holiday treat?

Speaker 9 (02:08:34):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:08:34):
Not really?

Speaker 3 (02:08:36):
The train use just.

Speaker 14 (02:08:39):
Sort of starting in the carrole that four hundred tons on.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
The foot plate yet be crypto, but we were get
how old were you and where were you going?

Speaker 14 (02:08:50):
I was going to go into the Christ Church from
the Duneeden, Yes, and we would go across the county
planes drave a war and well over sixty miles.

Speaker 2 (02:09:01):
And there, you know, I'm not cured about the mine.
I wanted to know what was the circumstances in your
life that you would do that. Were you on holiday
or were you just up and back in the same night.

Speaker 14 (02:09:09):
The glory days I got to live the glory days
of steam before the steam trains disappeared almost forever.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
And those trains cared are really all baker.

Speaker 14 (02:09:21):
So where were you going planes?

Speaker 3 (02:09:23):
I've got going at the crotch for.

Speaker 2 (02:09:25):
A holiday, or to stay with family, or to I do.

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
Give us a just doesn't know.

Speaker 14 (02:09:32):
People would take the bus, I'll take the train and
and those are incredible experiences. But they had they carried
the evening mail and the guys would be in the
mail carriage and they would be sorting them along the
way up to the line.

Speaker 3 (02:09:54):
It was it was it was an express. It was
the one three four I think was the train. That
the number for the train.

Speaker 14 (02:10:01):
And yeah, beautiful days.

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
Yeah, nice to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (02:10:05):
Thank you, Graham. To past eleven twenty five past eleven, Hello, Wendy,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (02:10:12):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 38 (02:10:15):
Thank you Wendy, I just rang up to tell you
that when we were kids, my parents used to get
so they had a part time job at home doing
all the greeting cards, putting pankis in them and things
like that, and we seem to yeah, it's really quite
interesting as we used to get a bit of poppet

(02:10:37):
money too, and where my brother and I when we
were doing it, And that's the amount of cards that.

Speaker 20 (02:10:43):
We used to get to do.

Speaker 38 (02:10:44):
It was amazing and we seemed to have I don't know,
the mail was quite a thrilling thing to receive if
you've got a greeting card, and it seems to we've you.

Speaker 17 (02:10:55):
Know, we just lost that nostalgic thing.

Speaker 2 (02:10:58):
I think now, who were you working for Hallmark?

Speaker 6 (02:11:03):
I think it from.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
Memor we're about whereabouts?

Speaker 4 (02:11:07):
Was this?

Speaker 38 (02:11:08):
This was an Auckland and my uncle was involved with it.
He got the job for my parents and they used
to drop off all the cards. But you know, so
we could put these hankies and other things in it,
and sometimes there are keys for twenty first keys and
things like that, and we used to do it every year.

(02:11:31):
It was it was amazing amount.

Speaker 14 (02:11:32):
Of cards that I mean, you wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (02:11:35):
You wouldn't see that.

Speaker 38 (02:11:36):
Nowadays, I don't know what they do, but they don't
put things in cards, do they now?

Speaker 2 (02:11:42):
No, No, had a recent birth thing got quite a
few cards for which was quite nice. But you know,
I'm not sentimental like that, No, I just remembering that.

Speaker 38 (02:11:54):
You know, I saved some cards that I had given
to me as a child, and on my twenty first
I had gold keys and silver keys and the cards,
you know, and i's a dead mark at the time.
I said, no, somebody's put them and we haven't put
those ones. And you know that here we used to

(02:12:15):
this past hounds, hundreds of them there. It seemed to
be boxes after boxes of them, just to make up
some money. But that was the mail in those days, Marcus,
it was. It was such a big industry.

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
And as I'm talking to you, Wendy, I can't really
work out why people stop sending cards, because of course,
you know, we don't write letters because phone conversations are
so easy and texting and all that. But cards. I
don't know why we've given up on cards, largely because
it seems like nothing really has replaced them, nothing satisfactory
has replaced them.

Speaker 38 (02:12:49):
Well, I've still send cards. I've tried on the internation.
It's not on the sending them by either terrible.

Speaker 14 (02:12:59):
It's not the same for them, you know.

Speaker 38 (02:13:01):
I send cards to my grandchildren and god children. Carstiles
send cards to them as the happy Birthday. I think
it's a nice thing to receive.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
There's some great cards to some of those ones that
play tunes and things. They're unbelievable. It's your birthday, it's
your birthday.

Speaker 3 (02:13:17):
Yes, yeah, I.

Speaker 38 (02:13:20):
Think a couple of those too. But that's why I
rang up to tell you. I just think we've lost
a bit of.

Speaker 34 (02:13:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 38 (02:13:28):
I suppose it's sentimental what you said. You know that
they are. They are such a.

Speaker 6 (02:13:36):
Drawing things for.

Speaker 38 (02:13:37):
Mike, I know, for my grandkids and for my godchildren.

Speaker 17 (02:13:41):
They love receiving them.

Speaker 2 (02:13:43):
Nice to hear from you when you think if they're
twenty eight past eleven, Marcus till twelve, do you want
to talk about tonight? If there's something else you want
to mention text or mainly it's been a bit of
a one topic night, hasn't it about the male? And
long may we continue for that? I always thought, yes, yes,
I remember, I remember often telegrams but lot, and they're

(02:14:05):
about holidays and when you arriving on holidays. Most of
it was like arriving on the rail car b there
at three or something like that that I don't know
how that much would cost to write, I think trying
to think the other times it would send Taylor. It
was always quite a big deal sending telegrams. This has
when I was a child. I don't think I've ever
been involved with them as an adult. I feel they

(02:14:26):
finished it about the eighties, did they? But I guess
they were sent via Who knows might of them will
even be sent from Morse code from place to place.
Taylor Swift said she won't play Super Bowl halftime because
of Travis Kelcey. By the way, I've always been a

(02:14:48):
great supporter of Taylor Swift. Well, not a supporter, but
I've always kind of thought that a lot of the
criticism that she accepted was kind of unreasonable but looked.
But all the people that rave about it, no one
seems to be liking the new album. They say that
it's got a mean spirited street which is slightly vengeful.
So yeah, we thought she'd be moving beyond that, but no,

(02:15:13):
it's what. All the reviews I've read have stated, Hello, Jenny,
this is Marcus. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 30 (02:15:19):
How you deceive me?

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
Jinny, I'm very good. Thank you.

Speaker 30 (02:15:22):
That's good to hear. It's good to hear the deep self.

Speaker 9 (02:15:27):
Good to hear what.

Speaker 2 (02:15:27):
It's good to hear, what's sorry.

Speaker 30 (02:15:29):
It's good to hear you good in the deep self.

Speaker 2 (02:15:32):
Very but that'll go.

Speaker 30 (02:15:37):
I know, I thought we were in spring. One of
these we'll get a couple of fine days in a row.
I'm looking forward to many years ago. I turned around
and all this I was just stay at home mum
and my husband was the white work and we put
her names down for hell and corporate nails, and also
knock at the back door. And I went over and

(02:15:57):
I said, I've got a telegram for you. And I thought, oh,
this is not good, you know, And I took it
inside and sat there at the tape. One sort of
looked at for a couple of moments, so it's better
open it up and have a read.

Speaker 35 (02:16:10):
And it was.

Speaker 30 (02:16:11):
It was a telegram from the house in corporation to
tell me that we'd actually had been allocated the house.
So it turned down the course, I never had a
phone and they turned around. So I thought, now, how
am I going to going to get on to had
a young daughter, Bridget who she's sisty on now. And
I put it in the post chair and went the

(02:16:32):
way down so State Advancers where the where the new
mall is on in the cargo now and went away
up the stairs and I said the lady, I've got
a telegram and said She said to me, yes, you
have come into those rooms. I went into a room
and she said, you will give you the key the
were and I said what's the address and she said

(02:16:53):
it's on Perth Street. And I said I had no
idea where Berth Street was. So I went the way
down and I thought was south. Now how do I
get a hold.

Speaker 37 (02:17:01):
Of my mum?

Speaker 30 (02:17:02):
And I said, I'll go to the phone box across
at the post office where the post office was in
those days, and ring mom and I said, I'm just
coming to your place. I've just got a message to
say we've got a house to shift into fin the
State Advancers in those days, And she said, here are
going to get here? She said, go and get a

(02:17:24):
taxi and come straight to my house. I'll pay for
the taxi for you. So we were there for I
think it was about three and a half year. Of
of course we paid six dollars fifty a week. Rent
was what air rent was that days, because we only
got about.

Speaker 2 (02:17:38):
Thirty What great communication for the What number Perth Street
was it?

Speaker 30 (02:17:42):
It was twenty nine per Street and directly across from
those centurison.

Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
Yep.

Speaker 30 (02:17:50):
And that's so we were there for so long. And
then we then we bought her own home.

Speaker 2 (02:17:54):
Solet we just reverse engineers, because I'm quite quite fascinated
by this. So yeah, once you had the telegram, m hmm,
we walked.

Speaker 30 (02:18:08):
In Neary Street. I walked out right down into town
and went to Sate Advance's building, went up in the
lift and went and stood at the queue and the
cup counter and showed the lady the telegram. Oh, come
with me, she says. So it was very exciting news
on that. So I went to my parents' place where
us I got the taxi and my dad arrived home

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for lunch. He was he was actually a bluff bus
driver right out to those days. And he came home
for lunch and we said, we're going to have a
look at this house. Oh well, forget lunch. We're going
to have a look at this house. Away off we
went to have a look at the house. We lived
there for two and a half years, so it was
a great start to their every young family and that

(02:18:48):
I had a son while we were there. And then
we bought our own place in Sturt Street, which is
just what fella road.

Speaker 14 (02:18:55):
Wow.

Speaker 30 (02:18:57):
So there was one of those things in there. You
look at all the ones on here, ones on'm waiting
lists and think, well, that's tero women, No, I mean
we're all geting.

Speaker 2 (02:19:06):
It did seem as that was a government that kid
and communicated well.

Speaker 30 (02:19:09):
So yeah, it was. It was well and truly and
that we've been on the list. I think we'd only
been on the list something like that two months. Sect
you get a house.

Speaker 2 (02:19:19):
And where were you living?

Speaker 30 (02:19:22):
We were living in person in Mary Street just off here.

Speaker 2 (02:19:25):
Were fit were renting there?

Speaker 30 (02:19:27):
Or yeah, we were living in an old house here
and it was as cold as you put the fire
on and if I would go all day and the
house never got warm with the actual the curtains used
to move in and that was the wind that the
old draft it was so so it was one of
those things, but no other than asthmetic and in that

(02:19:47):
they just said you can't stay in this, that's orders
to it. So it was quite a good thing. So
that's a few years ago now because I'm in the
seventies and now, so it's got greatly resonate. You sort
of think, well, once I give the young one's hand
up like that, and it's very nice to hear in
the place of you will still go past to look

(02:20:07):
at it and places place is still there the house
that we used to living in Perth Street, No, I
don't think it is. Yep, it's still there and direct
the opposite churches.

Speaker 2 (02:20:19):
I don't think it is. Yeah, I found thirty three.
I think I think there's three units at twenty nine.
I was looking as I was talking to you.

Speaker 30 (02:20:30):
It's it's a double unit.

Speaker 2 (02:20:33):
Yeah, but that's not the house, urine.

Speaker 30 (02:20:34):
Was it that we were in a double unit?

Speaker 14 (02:20:37):
Yeah, there was.

Speaker 30 (02:20:38):
Lady was pretty gay.

Speaker 2 (02:20:40):
Look, they look like new houses at twenty nine now.

Speaker 5 (02:20:45):
When we last.

Speaker 30 (02:20:47):
Nine might have been thirty, it might have.

Speaker 2 (02:20:49):
Been thirty nine. Yeah, that makes it.

Speaker 30 (02:20:51):
There's quite a lot of new houses, a long.

Speaker 2 (02:20:54):
Home, the duplexes at thirty nine, I think it will
be thirty nine. I'm looking at forty one. Now they
will be yet that will have been. Yeah, the duplexes.
It's the kind of ones white and ones of pink
color with a hydranger around the front.

Speaker 24 (02:21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (02:21:07):
I can remember being there when Princess Anne got married
because Father Pound, that was the priest and Saint Teresa's
came over and said to me, are you going to
get up in the middle of it? I like to
watch Princess Anne's wedding and was so.

Speaker 2 (02:21:22):
You were involved with that, You're involved with it. St. Theresa's.
They got a whold.

Speaker 30 (02:21:26):
We just knew them because we lived in the neighborhood.

Speaker 35 (02:21:29):
And that.

Speaker 30 (02:21:30):
But no, they came over. Of course I hit the
bridget was out living on doing the garden.

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
And where was Bridget living on?

Speaker 30 (02:21:37):
The bridget was sitting and sitting on the law a
rug while I was doing the garden. It was just
a week talked she wasn't even one of those days.
So turned around and you what's fifty fifty three? Now
here we go, So just a memory.

Speaker 2 (02:21:55):
Anyway, I've been to some funerals at Saint Theresa's.

Speaker 30 (02:21:58):
It's a it's a lovely church.

Speaker 2 (02:22:01):
When was that built? That kind of been built that
long before you.

Speaker 9 (02:22:05):
You were there.

Speaker 30 (02:22:07):
I don't know see when it was built to watch
many a funeral the year and really well in those
days before kidneys went to funerals, and you know it
was it was very quiet. Just the elderly folk went yes,
and the kids didn't. They got for the town there
was somebody else and take them to funerals a moment too.

Speaker 2 (02:22:27):
Because I can go on at that church a bit too,
aren't they? They can be the ones I've been quite
long winded affairs with singing and all sorts of stuff.
The butcher up there singing in the.

Speaker 29 (02:22:35):
Whole bit, that's for sure.

Speaker 30 (02:22:38):
Thank you, Markes be not the light.

Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
Jenny, you do well. Thank you for that. Twenty two
to twelve back soone be a part of your on
talk before the end of the show. Here till twelve.
I can tell you what's happening around the other stories
from around them. There's a bit to talk about today.
But you know what a one topic night's like. Once
everyone's done, once they've done their dish, it's hard to
get going on something else. Bathist is the Sunday. Hey,

(02:23:05):
I'll tell you what's something that I while I have
got a minute to talk. And I was interested earlier
on tonight about this. Could someone ring me and tell
me if if they're interested enough about Shane van Gisbergen,

(02:23:27):
because I've heard during the news that he has won
eight or five in a row and he's almost unbeatable
on worn tires. Could someone explain a bit more to
me about that. Is he just a very very good driver?

(02:23:50):
Is he like a driver of a generation? Is that
what that's about or is there something else going on?
There is that experience to what's happening with him. If
you do know about that, find that quite fascinating. If
one can update me on van Gisbergen, can find that
pretty interesting. It's fourteen to eleven. Hello William, this is Marcus. Welcome.

(02:24:12):
I say again good William, thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:24:16):
Excellent.

Speaker 28 (02:24:17):
So I was looking at some of the course you've
had earlier to night and I kind of agree with
the one that everybody hates in terms of the postal service.
The postal service is the backbone of communications in the
country and if we look at it, even trans them
the train operators have a paper based service to implement

(02:24:39):
when something goes wrong, right, So we look at the
current geopolitical environment, we're not immune from that. We need
to be able to communicate if something happens, and I
just believe that maintaining those systems, not necessarily in the

(02:25:01):
form the previous caller was talking about, is really kind
of important. We need to be able to have a
backup system.

Speaker 2 (02:25:11):
Yeah, I think it's a valid point, and thanks for
making that. Also know too that the ham radio operators
they're always really good to come into anything if there's
a solar storm whatever, because they provide vital communication. But yeah,
I don't know what the backups are. I did see
two the other day that air traffic control went down,
which I thought was surprising.

Speaker 28 (02:25:32):
Well, yeah, really it is. I mean it shouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (02:25:35):
But well really you think that you think they have
some resilience built in there for.

Speaker 28 (02:25:39):
That, Well, yes, I mean you can have resilience built
on resilience, built on resilience, and things can still occur.
I get that. And at the end of the day,
you still need to have a more traditional system that
used to work that still can work. And I think

(02:26:00):
our postal system, as the previous caller said, the baseline
of communication across our country is necessary. It doesn't necessarily
need to deliver every single letter to everyone, but the
muscle memory for the country needs to be there.

Speaker 2 (02:26:22):
Well, the good thing is no one's talking about getting
rid of the mail. They're just reducing their services to
try and make it less unprofitable. I guess I get that,
But you.

Speaker 28 (02:26:30):
Know why it should something that's is essentially a government department.
I know it's not quite, but why should that be
run at a profit? It should be run at net zero? Right,
it should pay us workers do its job, not make
a profit, and be effective.

Speaker 2 (02:26:53):
Not to hear from you, William, thanks so much of
that twelve way from twelve good evening.

Speaker 37 (02:26:57):
Cal yea's good evening matters, Yeah, saying then Grisbergen here
is a generational driver. He's naturally street. He first comes
to thame in the supercars, in the Australian Supercars, which
you won, you know, he won Backhurst and all that,

(02:27:18):
and then he got sort of recruited to go to
the United States to race nascars and in masscars. Most
of their races are on the oval circuit where you
just go round and around around because a lot of
while to get used to that. But also about all
of their races were on street circuits, which you know

(02:27:41):
you've got all corners and states and all that street circuits,
and he's won like five or six in a row.
I think there's been eight street circuit races this season
in masscar and he's won six or seven of the eighth.
So he's done quite incredible. And not just that, he

(02:28:04):
also come back to New Zealand and you know rally
cars that raced through the forest on the gravel and
all that sort of stuff. He had to go at
that and he won the New Zealand New Zealand Rally.

Speaker 9 (02:28:16):
Wow.

Speaker 37 (02:28:17):
He also won the New Zealand Grand Prix, which he
had like formerly one cars that sort of car, but
obviously a smaller version. He won the New Zealand Grand
Prix racing that style of car. He makes a drive anything, mate,
He's probably been to Melbourn Cup on the horse Carl.

Speaker 2 (02:28:37):
How's he going? How's he got on the tricks at
the next car?

Speaker 5 (02:28:40):
Is he is?

Speaker 3 (02:28:41):
He has?

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
He not got the experience for that? Is he getting
better or is that something he's going to start winning
on as well on the on then circuit.

Speaker 37 (02:28:50):
Yeah, he's getting much better. He's improving all the time.
And MASCA also has the street circuit races, which is
he's winning that's when row. Yeah, yeah, the oval racing,
he's improving every race.

Speaker 2 (02:29:07):
Okay, hey, Cal, I've got to go to commercials. But
just before I go, have they talked about him at
Formula one? Is that something he's considering.

Speaker 37 (02:29:15):
Oh, I don't know. Probably runs a different, different sort
of beast just because the money to give him there
in cognitive age and sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
But it's a young man's game. I'm gonna run Carvert,
Thanks so.

Speaker 19 (02:29:28):
Much for that.

Speaker 1 (02:29:29):
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