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Scotlandx, Its good to know that I don’t need to postpone a meeting if notices haven’t been received due to delayed post, but it does put me in the ridiculous situation of having to email or door knock everyone to let them know the meeting is on, if the notice and agenda haven’t arrived yet. it can be done, but to all practical (rather than legal) purposes really makes the postage of notices redundant if I have had to communicate with owners some other way anyway. I’d still have to postpone the meeting if we didn’t get a quorum to run the meeting due to the fact no one knew it was on.
I understand your answer is based on legislation but with the changes to the postal system last year, 4 days is not entirely realistic anymore unless you pay for priority mail. The Australia Post website says priority mail has an expected delivery time of 1 to 4 working days and regular mail, 1 to 6 working days.
We have been using priority mail since we postponed the 2 meetings last year (because we thought we had to postpone them – now i know better), but Priority mail costs 50c extra per letter. So now I know, we can go back to regular mail and take our chances that the letters will arrive in time for anyone to know there is a meeting on. (this seems to have some potential for excluding some members, especially non-resident owners or those who wont use email)
When you say one can’t use a noticeboard for general meetings, are you implying one could be used for notice for committee meetings? That would still save the largest chunk of our postage costs.