Omarama businessman Craig Dawson is disappointed at a decision to discontinue Saturday mail delivery to PostCentre agencies in the upper Waitaki Valley from May.
As well as being another reduction in service to the area, it could affect businesses which relied on the Saturday morning service, Mr Dawson, who is also chairman of the Ahuriri Community Board, said.
When contacted, a New Zealand Post Group spokesman said mail was carried by New Zealand Post's contractor, CourierPost, which had scheduled deliveries to the New Zealand Post PostCentre agencies at Kurow, Omarama and Otematata from Monday to Friday.
The Oamaru-Omarama Saturday service had become commercially unsustainable and a decision had been made to discontinue it from May 1.
