Modern mail: Australia Post to end daily letter deliveries in a bid to avoid losses

Australia Post will end daily deliveries of ordinary letters and unaddressed mail in what it claims is a bid to modernise. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Australia Post will end daily letter deliveries next year under new rules relaxing the requirement for five-day-a-week delivery.

The outcome of the postal service’s modernisation review, to be announced by the Albanese government on Wednesday, means Australians will soon be receiving ordinary letters and unaddressed mail every other business day, a response to the long-term decline of letters and the post’s first loss in eight years.