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.

New Zealand Post says it will axe 80 to 100 corporate roles at the state-owned company's Wellington and Auckland offices by July.

A disgraced former postie who stole more than 21,000 items of mail from Queenstown residents failed to fulfil her "sacrosanct" duty of delivering private correspondence.

The Queenstown postal worker who stole thousands of pieces of mail from Wakatipu residents has been jailed for 17 months.

Disgraced Queenstown postie Philippa Lynette Lindsay has admitted stealing thousands of pieces of mail destined for Wakatipu homes in the Queenstown District Court.

NZ Post faces falling mail volumes and must adapt

New Zealand Post will not rule out further cuts to mail services and Post Shops after outlining plans to move to three-day-a-week letter deliveries.

More undelivered mail has been handed in to police in Queenstown after it was found in the overgrown backyard where mail was found earlier.

NZ Post has sold its 35pc stake in Datacom to the NZ Superannuation Fund for $142m.

Kiwis have been waiting more than a month for overseas parcels containing Christmas presents, as mail authorities here question who is to blame.

The woman accused of stealing more than 17,000 pieces of mail bound for Wakatipu homes has been remanded on bail to February 14.

The start of delivery of more than 16,000 letters and parcels by New Zealand Post is better late than never for hundreds of Wakatipu residents.

Wakatipu residents will receive an apology from New Zealand Post when their lost mail is delivered to their homes on Sunday.

Six Christchurch post boxes have been broken into and the mail stolen, in what is being called a targeted criminal activity.

Another 10,000 pieces of undelivered mail have been discovered in a room at a storage company by Queenstown police.