Editing Australia Post (section)

{{Short description|Australian postal service}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Use Australian English|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Australian Postal Corporation
| logo = Australia Post Logo.png
| owner = [[Australian Government]]
| type = [[State-owned enterprise|Government business enterprise]]
| industry = [[Postal service]]
| predecessor = {{Unbulleted list|Australian Postal Commission|[[Postmaster-General's Department]]}}
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1975|7|1|df=yes}} in [[Sydney, Australia]]
| location_city = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| locations = {{Decrease}} 4,310 outlets ([[Financial year|FY]]22)<ref name="AP AR22">{{Cite web |date=25 August 2022 |title=''Delivering like never before'': Australia Post Annual Report 2022 |url=https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/2022-australia-post-annual-report.pdf |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=Australia Post |publication-place=[[Melbourne]], Australia}}</ref>
| area_served = [[Australia]]
| key_people = {{Unbulleted indent list|Lucio Di Bartolomeo (Chairman)|Paul Graham (CEO)}}
| products = {{Unbulleted indent list|[[Postal services]]|[[Retail]]|[[Logistics]]|Printing services}}
| revenue = {{Increase}} {{AUD|8.97 billion}} ([[Financial year|FY]]22)<ref name="AP AR22" />
| net_income = {{Increase}} {{AUD|55.3 million}} ([[Financial year|FY]]22)<ref name="AP AR22" />
| num_employees = {{Increase}} 64,900 ([[Financial year|FY]]22)<ref name="AP AR22" />
| subsid = [[POLi Payments]]<br/>SecurePay<br/>Decipha
| homepage = {{URL|auspost.com.au}}
}}

'''Australia Post''', formally the '''Australian Postal Corporation''' and also known as '''AusPost''', is an Australian Government-[[State-owned enterprise|owned corporation]] that provides [[postal service]]s throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Swan Street in [[Richmond, Victoria]].

Australia Post is the successor of the [[Postmaster-General's Department]], which was established at [[Federation of Australia|federation]] in 1901 to formalise colonial postal services. In 1975, the department was abolished and its postal functions were taken over by the Australian Postal Commission.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dowse |first1=Josh |title=Australia Post - our dead letter office |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/news-story/australia-post--our-dead-letter-office/db682354bd3117b35b12cd9a8da8b525 |access-date=27 March 2020 |publisher=The Australian Business Review}}</ref> The organisation's current name and structure were adopted in 1989 when it was [[corporatisation|made into a government-owned corporation]].