Post offices News
POAAL Podcast: installing PO Boxes
Posted: March 30, 2021 at 7:15 am
Tony Barnard, Manager Post Office Boxes at Australia Post, discusses installing PO Boxes in this episode of the POAAL Podcast:
- Understand customer demand for new PO Boxes at your LPO
- Getting Australia Post approval for a new installation of PO Boxes
- Minimum requirements for first-time PO Box installations
- Critical considerations for PO Box installation locations
- Parcel collection hatches
- Parcel delivery via “red door” PO Boxes
- Free-standing PO Box units
- PO Box manufacturing
- Minimising customer disruption
Tony also covers some aspects of PO Box Plus:
- Customer benefits of PO Box Plus
- Procedure for scanning PO Box Plus parcels – including parcels with no scannable barcode
Click on the player above to listen to the POAAL Podcast.
Related posts:
More news

Resources
- Carded parcels storage advice
- Franchising dispute resolution
- Mail Management Fee
- PO Box installation
- Request a Disclosure Document
- Stock delivery issues
- Industrial relations
- Franchising Code of Conduct
- LPO assignment letters
- POMS Data Collection Report
- LPO Arrangements Payment Scheme
- Looking to buy a post office?
Become a POAAL member
POAAL provides support and services for Licensees and Franchisees (Post Office Owners), Mail & Parcel Contractors and Couriers.
Complete an expression of interest now for POAAL membership.
