• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Advertise
  • Issues
  • About
  • Competitions
  • Calendar
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

DUO Magazine

Go to Category
  • HOME
  • Style
  • Health
  • Home + Travel
  • Community
  • Business
  • Arts + Events
  • Food + Drink
  • Seen
Home|Community|After Dark: Denise Tripp

Community

After Dark:
Denise Tripp

 

 

Denise Tripp

Mail Sorter
Townsville Mail Centre

 


Without Denise Tripp and her crew of night mail sorters, our letterboxes would go hungry. Clocking on at 7.09pm, Denise starts her shift at the Delivery Annex in Sturt Street and gets to work sorting the mail for Ayr. It all has to be sorted, bundled and put in runs for the posties so it’s ready to go on the 1am truck to Bowen/Ayr.

“I don’t think people realise how much there is to do and it’s all got to be done by a certain time,” Denise says. “We hand-sort all of the mail for Ayr, Bowen and Charters Towers first then move over to the Delivery Centre, where all the posties are, to start sorting for the 22 Townsville runs.”

The four-strong crew of sorters listen to music to keep them going. Most nights they work till 4 or 5am – as long as it takes to get the mail sorted.

“We all get tired and snappy occasionally but we just let it all pass. We don’t take it to heart. The crew know to leave me alone when I’ve got ‘that look’ on my face,” Denise laughs. “I’m really lucky – we’ve got a great crew who just get stuck in and get the job done.”

We all get tired and snappy occasionally but we just let it all pass. We don’t take it to heart.

Denise says the most frustrating part of the job is when people don’t address their mail correctly.

“Sometimes we’ll get a name on a letter and the address is ‘no fixed address’,” Denise says. “Surprisingly, we get that quite a lot. We do our best to find the right address but if we can’t we just have to ‘return
to sender’.”

Written by: Kylie Davis | Photos by: Josephine Carter
June 27, 2017
Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Pin on Pinterest
Pinterest
Email this to someone
email

Primary Sidebar

logo
Finally, a women's lifestyle magazine that covers all of North Queensland. Now in its thirteenth year, DUO is the elegant bi-monthly publication that features exclusive and insightful interviews with the amazing women of our region as well as the latest in home design, style and fashion, dining and recipes, travel and the arts.
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

Read It

Newsletter

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
© 2021 DUO Magazine
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
Web Design by iCreate