• melbaboutown@aussie.zoneOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      It’s not a small issue, you’ve been cheated of both the supports you should have had but also of the right to do necessary things for yourself.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      depending on your spoons, if you’re a big enough pain in their arse and keep pestering them about it, they can and fucking will make exceptions.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          did a bit of digging and they absolutely have special dispensation for DV, deceased estates and victims of natural disaster, but it must be a “special request”

          might have to actually call them, or go to the GPO - lpo are franchisees, I don’t see them having the authority to kick it up.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      I somewhat get it. I moved out as a minor and had some of this nonsense. Difference was I had a lawyer for a father who could hand over a business card and mostly make the shit go away. Sorry.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        …you’ve got time to turn things around.

        This feels uncomfortably close to a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality… 😔

          • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            13·
            2 months ago

            It’s just that you keep putting it on them, as if they need to be the one to “turn things around” when their rant was specifically about external systems prejudicing them. They can’t “turn around” AusPost’s decision to deny them the ability to redirect their mail?

            Basically, they are trying to ask these systems for help, and are being denied. So why put it on their shoulders? Why not be outraged that someone is falling through the gaps, through no fault of their own?

            I get that you have good intentions here, but I feel like you’re kind of missing the point in a big way…