No credit card payments allowed at "small" post office

The implementation of an Electronic Point of Sale machine has been denied after it was judged a post office did not have enough business.

The Guildford Post Office is not allowed to have an Electronic Point of Sale machine because it is "too small", which means they are losing business, it has been claimed.

So people cannot come to the store and use their credit card without the system being implemented, the Bendigo Advertiser reported.

Pam Adams, Guildford Progress Association vice-president, said it was "heartbreaking" to tell people they could not use credit cards in the shop after the Australia Post denied them the chance to install the technology.

She added: "(Australia Post) came back and said 'no you're too small, you don’t generate enough business', but how can they generate business if they are having to turn people away?"

The owners have been petitioning for more than two years for the system to allow people to pay with Aussie credit.

Earlier this month, Robert Morgan, head of market analysis for banking research and adviser East and Partners, said scheme debit cards – similar to an Electronic Fund Transfer Point of Sale card – were becoming more popular than credit cards, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

By Mark Hornby