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Improve the Value of your Home

Guanavations — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:47:46 +0000

Our slogan at Guanavations for a very long time has been “Let STYLE be the Opening Statement to your Home”.

The mailbox is the first thing most visitors see and this is for a couple of reasons. Firstly it is generally where your house number is. While house numbers can be fitted directly onto the wall of your house or on your fence and even in what seems to be days gone bye, painted on the street curb, most house numbers are still fitted and expected to be seen on the mailbox.

Secondly the mailbox indicates the entry point to the house. In most circumstances the mailbox is next to the path.

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Australia Post Goes Green

Guanavations — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:04:23 +0000

Australian consumers may soon receive their online purchases faster and via a greener delivery method as retailers look at using pedal power and electric bikes to reduce costs as well as emissions.
Global retailer H&M is trialling bicycle delivery for its retail products in the Netherlands, where cyclists offer next-day delivery for online purchases across 30 cities.

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) business school Professor Gary Mortimer said the trial could see a similar greener alternative soon offered to Australian customers.

“Smart move — we haven’t seen it here in Australia really by any retailer,” Professor Mortimer said.

When you buy online, you want to get it pretty quickly, and throwing it onto the back of a bike and zipping it around, you can get it done in an hour or so.”

Professor Mortimer said the growth of online retailing — between 12 per cent and 13 per cent in 2019 — was forcing local brands to think of different ways to get products to customers.

“The challenge is that last mile being able to get that product from the retail’s business to your home pretty quickly,” he said.

‘Pollution-free mode of transport’

While bike delivery was less common among Australian retailers, restaurants were among 11,000 worldwide using cycling couriers like Deliveroo.

Deliveroo spokeswoman Joanne Woo said the company had 9,000 riders in Australia and bicycles had been an important part of the company’s fleet since day one.

4″Bicycles work best in areas that are highly populated,” Ms Woo said.

“Of course cycling is a pollution-free mode of transport — a person who rides 10 kilometres each way to work will save around 150,000 kilograms of carbon emissions each year.

“When you see that transport is the second largest source of carbon emissions in Australia, it is a massive saving if we can get more people to cycle.”

The company’s delivery fleet in the Netherlands is made up of 90 per cent bicycles, in comparison to just 10 per cent in Australia.

While Australia Post still delivers 2.2 billion letters annually, its business is increasingly in parcel delivery and the company is turning to electric pushbikes to try and faze out motorbikes.

Australia Post’s Last Mile Implementation national head Colin Hindle said the electric pushbike fleet had been rolling out for the past six years.

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Mail Theft A Big Problem!

Guanavations — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:01:06 +0000

More and more often you will read in newspapers and view on current affair programs stories of mail theft and with particular focus being on identity theft. While mailboxes are not built like safes we can offer a higher security lock with our mailboxes. This is a C4 lock and uses the same style of key and lock as you would find in your common home front door. A master locksmith can even “key alike” your mailbox key to your front door key. The downside of installing a higher security lock is that generally perpetrators when they find they can’t pick the lock or open it with a master key they will force entry and cause significant damage to the mailbox.

The best deterent against mailbox theft or vandalism is CCTV monitoring and these days this need not be expensive with many cameras now offering WIFI or 4G connections and even solar power in the event that you are unable to get power to the camera.

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