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.

The state-owned enterprise has been trialling two vehicles and an electronic bike on selected Auckland routes as it considers overhauling home delivery practices.

New Zealand Post has sold its Australian Couriers Please business to Singapore Post for A$95 million.

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.

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.

Former postie Linda Street pedalled the streets of Christchurch for more than five years on ever-increasing sized rounds, clocking up unrostered overtime.

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.

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?

More than 1,000 posties and retail staff could lose their jobs after NZ Post got the green light from the Govt to move to three-day-a-week deliveries.

NZ Post has secured agreement from the Government allowing it to move to three day a week letter deliveries from 2015 but rural areas will still retain their current services.

New Zealand Post's across-town mail service will now take longer to reach their destination.

New Zealand Post is revamping its branch network to put Kiwibank at the fore as it looks to take advantage of the bank's growth potential.

A NZ Post worker has been awarded $500 compensation after receiving a final written warning for spending five hours socialising in the company carpark after work.

Post office customers are being dispatched to self-service counters as New Zealand Post bosses try to stamp out long queues.

New Zealand Post is to cut 120 mail processing roles as it halves its mail processing centres from six to three.