Riverina’s Country Women’s Association (CWA) branch members will fight to be heard at the annual NSW State Conference, pushing for a review of the current postal system. 

The issue is just one of 24 motions which will be presented for discussion at the conference, running from  May 22 to 25.

President Ann Adams said members were “fed up”, with lengthy service wait times and higher prices. 

“We thought when the prices went up the service would improve but instead it’s gone backward,” Ms Adams said. 

“One of my priority paid letters took nine days to arrive, we used to have a good service.” 

While Wagga currently has a sorting centre, the group is calling for a larger operation in order to cut out the need for mail to be sent via Canberra. 

“For a big regional area like Wagga to need to send mail to Canberra is disgraceful, the service has gone down big time,” Ms Adams said. 

The call comes after Estella resident Chris Heazlewood joined the crusade for a larger scale Wagga sorting system in February, claiming his overseas Christmas cards took more than two and a half months to arrive. 

Ms Adams said a quality postal service was vital to Wagga’s oldest generation. 

“A lot of the elderly need to rely on sending their letters and parcels,” Ms Adams said. 

“We have a few members who live out at Tumut without internet and it’s hard.”