{"id":852142,"date":"2026-08-12T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852142\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:12:10","slug":"australia-post-delivery-centre-opens-in-murray-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852142\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Post delivery centre opens in Murray Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.murraybridge.news\/tag\/development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\ud83c\udfd7\ufe0f Growth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Thousands of parcels will pass through the new facility every day, in line with the continued growth of online shopping.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-9.jpg\" alt=\"Australia Post delivery centre opens in Murray Bridge\"\/><br \/>\n            Australia Post staff stand outside their new Murray Bridge distribution centre. Photo: Australia Post.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the Murraylands and receive a parcel through Australia Post over the next few decades, it will come through this place.<\/p>\n<p>The postal service\u2019s new delivery centre on Hindmarsh Road, Murray Bridge opened on Tuesday, just six months after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murraybridge.news\/australia-post-is-building-a-new-distribution-centre-in-murray-bridge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will handle up to 2600 parcels per day, with a fully electric processing system powered by solar panels and batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Although few of us write letters any more, spokesman Shane Plant said the rise of online shopping and parcel delivery meant Australia Post was busier than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnline spend in South Australia rose 14 per cent to $5.6 billion last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs more people shop online, particularly in regional areas, we\u2019re continuing to invest in our regional network to keep pace with demand and changing customer needs, to deliver a better, more reliable service for our customers into the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new facility will help our team get parcels on the road faster and deliver them to our customers as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will also strengthen our ability to support local businesses, helping them reach more customers and grow through e-commerce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new facility replaced one at 193 Adelaide Road which was half the size.<\/p>\n<p>Public-facing postal services will remain available at the Murray Bridge Post Office, at Murray Bridge Marketplace; and the licensed post office at Southside Newsagency.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-10.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/>The new facility is up and running, with room to grow. Photo: Australia Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfd7\ufe0f Growth Thousands of parcels will pass through the new facility every day, in line with the continued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-852142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}