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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Rafqa Touma

Australia Post offices could one day include EV charging stations as part of strategy to halt losses

Australia Post Group CEO Paul Graham said Australia Post would consider EV charging partnerships to ‘cater for our own needs as well as the broader community’.
Australia Post Group CEO Paul Graham said Australia Post would consider EV charging partnerships to ‘cater for our own needs as well as the broader community’. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Electric vehicle charging at your local post office could one day be a reality, as Australia Post flags the future of its “quest to simplify” after another loss in its 2024 financial year results.

On Friday, the company reported a pre-tax loss of $88.5m. This was less than last year’s $200.3m deficit. But despite the improvement in underlying performance and ongoing efforts to modernise, the government-owned postal corporation is “still unfortunately in a loss-making situation,” the CEO, Paul Graham, told Guardian Australia.

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