LPO Survey for Senate Inquiry Submission

In March 2018, the Senate referred an Inquiry into the Operation and Effectiveness of the Franchising Code of Conduct. The LPOGroup will be making an evidence-based submission to the Senate Inquiry and wants your participation to help shape the response. 

The survey is based on the Terms of Reference as detailed in the Senate inquiry and should take around 12 minutes to complete. Your indentifiable information will be treated in confidence.

This survey is open to all Licensees to complete and will close on Wednesday 25 April 2018. Once completed, responses will be summarised and used in the LPOGroup submission, which is due 4 May 2018.

Click here to complete survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lpo-survey

Nationals Senator for New South Wales, Senator John Williams, was instrumental in referring the franchise sector to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services for an inquiry and report by the 30 September 2018.

The franchise model had been called into question by mainstream media following high profile instances of franchisee dissatisfaction and failure.

Read more at http://www.franchisebusiness.com.au/news/senate-inquiry-into-franchising...

The latest round of LEEP meetings is almost concluded in most states and LPOG is seeking feed back on the success, or not, of this program. There are 2 rounds of LEEP meetings each year, with a lot of resources directed towards the process. But does it provide Australia Post and Licensees value for money? The format of the latest round was more focused on providing information to assist Licensees to manage our business resources, but did it do that? Or could it have been more successful? 

Help from some new law

The LPOG continues in its singular endeavour to get more money to Licensees without damaging the brand on which our livelihood depends. 

We identified for members in May 2017 and again in September 2017, some help from an unexpected source: the Federal Parliament.

ARA Australia Post Members - which is Every LPO

ARA will be holding an Australia Post Lease Negotiation and Information Webinar:

Monday 26th February
2pm (Melb,Syd,Can) time

To register your attendance for the online session click the link below:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5380676043046077443 

If you are concerned about the amount of MMF paid in the Jan POMs, you could be right. It seems there is an error in the calculations or some such part that has resulted in problems with the amount. Not sure if anyone got too much, but LPOG is aware of many that got too little, as is Australia Post.

https://ourpost.com.au/news/christines-blog/strategic-review-update

Finally, after a long period of absence Australia Post has a CEO who wants to run the Post Office and deliver the mail. Australia Post's new CEO, Christine Holgate states that Post Offices are an important part of the community, and maintaining a healthy and viable Post Office network is critical to meet the needs of  Australian communities and the government. And mail remains a very important part of our business and should be protected and nurtured. 

So lets get back to selling stamps to put on letters to deliver to the world and growing our business together with the new boss. 

How good is that!

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-advice/franchising/franchisees-...

Accountability is long overdue. The churning of underperforming businesses should be illegal. Especially when the poor sods who purchase on good faith have been subject to fraud.

Finally something is being done to allow victims of scams undertaken via this service to seek compensation. If you have customers, or know of any licensees who were caught up in the scam that targeted LPOs, now is the time to take some affirmative actions to try to recover lost funds. We will probably have to convince people that they do not need to send money to WU to lodge these claims also. Won't take the vultures long to think that one up!