Hundreds of posties will lose their jobs when mail delivery days are slashed next month, but just one compulsory redundancy is expected.

A new coin is being minted in New Zealand to commemorate the birth of the royal princess.

A postie who stockpiled nearly 2000 pieces of mail at his house has been sacked from the job.

New Zealand Post will decrease deliveries of post to three days per week from July, costing 400 posties their job.

Rusty Hamlet can't vote after all, even though the Electoral Commission sent him voting forms.

An expensive designer handbag, a preserved scorpion, human ashes and an unwrapped tennis ball are some of the 100,000 "undeliverable" mail items sent via New Zealand Post that have been destroyed or sold in the past year.

Michael Lewis is a visionary young leader who is committed to growing people to deliver both their individual and organisational success.

A postie fired after being suspected of being involved in a "significant drinking session" has won her job back after a botched inquiry.

An elderly NZ Post rural mail contractor in Hokitika was seriously injured after being run over by her own vehicle last night.

A wounded postwoman is believed to have been accidentally shot with a pellet gun while making her rounds in Northland yesterday morning.

New Zealand Post reported a 12pc fall in annual profit as shrinking mail volumes were offset by gains in its Kiwibank and parcel businesses.

An Auckland postie who left thousands of letters undelivered has been dismissed by New Zealand Post.

New Zealand Post is apologising to customers following security problems with its online shopping service.

It is not as if NZ Post is going broke, writes Dita De Boni. It pays at least $5 million each year to the government, profits are soaring - up 18 per cent if the SOE's first-half profit growth is anything to go by.

NZ Post plans to roll out YouShop in China - the parcel forwarding service set up to cash in on the surge in online shopping.

New Zealand Post has sold its digital media subsidiary the Localist to management. But the state-owned enterprise will not say how much money it has lost from its investment in the advertising-funded directory business or the price paid.

New Zealand Post is denying a claim it deliberately delays mail deliveries in order to promote its premium fast post service.

Why does NZ Post continue to flounder while Germany's Deutsche Post has significantly outperformed the Frankfurt sharemarket in recent years and the UK's Royal Mail has just had a successful IPO?

Prime Minister John Key says the loss of up to 2000 postal jobs is the "brutal reality" of people sending fewer letters.

NZ Post is about to begin a three-month trial offering fingerprinting for employment, immigration and other purposes - previously a police service.

No one delights in job losses and my heart goes out to posties and their families with the cloud that hangs over their futures, writes Bruce Wills.

Editorial: Is the decision to cut postal deliveries in urban areas - but not rural areas - tied to the National Government holding almost all rural seats?