{"id":969,"date":"2014-01-07T00:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/australia-post-sell-off-would-devastate-rural-towns\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:27:21","slug":"australia-post-sell-off-would-devastate-rural-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/australia-post-sell-off-would-devastate-rural-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Post sell-off would &#039;devastate&#039; rural towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia Post sell-off would &#39;devastate&#39; rural towns<\/strong><br \/>\nIf there was no facility to provide that service to the people of Braidwood or any other little town like us, what would they do?&quot; Stressing that he spoke as a small business owner, not on behalf of Australia Post, the 62-year-old said while &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/2008876\/australia-post-sell-off-would-devastate-rural-towns\/?cs=12\">Illawarra Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>sell -off would &#39;devastate&#39; rural towns<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230; offices closed. Post offices served as hubs for small towns, he said. Mr Keeley said his post office offered passport application and other services, without which Braidwood residents would need to drive an hour to Canberra or 45 minutes to &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/australia-post-sell-off-would-devastate-rural-towns-20140106-30dmb.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia Post sell-off would &#39;devastate&#39; rural towns If there was no facility to provide that service to the people of Braidwood or any other little town like us, what would they do?&quot; Stressing that he spoke as a small business owner, not on behalf of Australia Post, the 62-year-old said while &#8230; Read more on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[2503,768,2506,139,2504,2502,2505,1782],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-39devastate39","tag-australia","tag-australia-post","tag-post","tag-rural","tag-selloff","tag-towns","tag-would"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australia Post sell-off would &#039;devastate&#039; 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