Australian Immigration Daily News

This is the email being sent out by the Perth Parent visa centre (note no officer first or last name and no position number, just 'Admin'):

UNCLASSIFIED

As no mail could be delivered on 2nd June due to the public holiday in WA and as that mail would have been in the GPO before the repeal date any mail coming from the post office and delivered on the 3rd will be accepted as valid. Couriered applications will not be accepted as valid.

Admin
Parent Visa Centre
Department of Immigration and Border Protection

I always understood it to be the Seven P's:

"Prior Preparation and Planning Prevent Piss Poor Performance".

I guess that's what you get when you rush in a change without thinking through the consequences.  I am sure there will be some interesting debates around the change to the date for some people and not for others.  It benefits some and not others.  What about all those people who faxed their applications in trying to make the 'kind-of' deadline of the 2nd of June?  And how does the Post Office know whether the couriers arrived on 2nd at 11:59pm or on 3rd at 12:01am?  It isn't a locked bag.  It is a GPO which means it's probably open to the public in an open space.  It is all just a bit of a joke, really.  Anyway.