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Small businesses shipping goods with FedEx face significant disruptions in the lead up to Christmas, as industrial action in Victorian and Tasmanian depots intensifies.

Australian small businesses and consumers have been urged to get their Christmas plans in place early this year, with high parcel volumes and supply chain problems expected to slow deliveries down.

Based largely on ABS data with the assistance of renowned demographer Bernard Salt, the Boss Insights report identified five quite diverse key areas of growth for sole traders ranging from “couriers to accountants, solicitors to IT and healthcare workers”.

Australia Post is receiving backlash for auctioning off customers items that didn’t quite make it to their doorsteps.

Amid the post-COVID carnage, retailers must prioritise their customers and take time to reflect on old values or methods that may seem archaic, but go the distance. 

Small businesses are turning to private delivery services and doing their own parcel-runs, as delays at Australia Post push out delivery times by up to four weeks in the lead up to Christmas.

E-commerce retailers in Melbourne are once again preparing for a pause in pickups from Australia Post, as the delivery network tries to manage unprecedented high levels of parcel deliveries with a reduced workforce. 

Retailers who are fully reliant on large-scale delivery providers alone, such as Australia Post, should act fast and smart if they want to stay ahead of the game.

Small businesses are concerned Australia Post’s pause on e-commerce parcel collections will lead to an unmanageable surge in deliveries when collections resume next Tuesday.

Small Business Ombudsman Bruce Billson has welcomed a commitment by Australia Post to permanently reverse an earlier decision to stop delivering certain perishable goods around the country. 

Parcel delivery volumes are surging to heights not seen since Christmas last year, leading small businesses to increase their communications with suppliers and customers to avoid lengthy shipping times.

Australia Post has long been caught between its role as a publicly owned corporation expected to compete with private corporations and as a community service provider delivering letters, a business in terminal decline.