Craic, I hope you're still around to read this, I didn't see that post yesterday. You must be in good health if you're out there clobbering big trees for firewood.
My post was a bit tongue in cheek, but certainly David Shearer is getting better at the TV work. Maybe he'll get rolled, like Ms Gillard, but that's not the point. It should be all about policies.
The latest work the National Govt has done for the economy is to assume that postal volume will continue to fall 8% a year, for every year. This means that within a few years there will be no postal items at all. All of the relatively newly built Waikato Mail Sorting building and its expensive equipment will be mothballed by next year, over 120 Waikato people out of work, and mail that is posted in Hamilton, to go to someone else in Hamilton, will be travelling all the way to Auckland and back on the roads, just to get sorted. Madness. Overall only 120 jobs will be saved nationwide at first, and I assume they'll then bring in very intensive sorting systems to drop more jobs from the main centres once they can do so.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...d-by-post-cuts
I'm spending over $20,000 a year with NZPost, sending smaller volume export items overseas, because they have been the cheapest to deal with. Not the easiest, and the frowns and feedback I get when I turn up at the counter with say 15-20 mins before closing time, tells me that if they're not careful, I will need to take my business elsewhere.