Uber user letters to the Australian Parliament were delivered in bags on a horse-drawn carriage

On May 3, a wooden wagon pulled by a horse rolled up to the Australian State of Queensland parliament building. In the cart there were bags of 15,000 paper letters from Uber service users to the Queensland premier. The letters in different forms stated the same request - not to prohibit the work of their favorite service. The local office of Uber organized an unusual delivery after parliament deliberately blocked receipt of emails from users.

On April 20, the state parliament passed a law that effectively prohibited Uber from operating in the state. Uber drivers caught red-handed are awaited by a fine of A $ 2,356, and the organizers of the service are fined 10 times more.

Even before the start of voting for this law, Uber posted on its website a form through which everyone could send a request directly to the state parliament with a request not to accept it. But almost immediately after the start of the form, emails stopped reaching the mailbox of the parliament.
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@Uber delivers letters to @AnnastaciaMP office through horsepower. @tennewsqld pic.twitter.com/iJKn312ukc

- Lauren Day (@Lauren_Day_Ten) May 3, 2016

Parliament speaker Peter Wellington [Peter Wellington] confirmed that the box lock was deliberately made , as the officials in charge felt that the email service was designed to “disrupt parliament’s email and block members’ correspondence. ”

The Uber service with the form for sending letters retained all the senders' data, and in the local office of the company decided to arrange a demonstration action, printing all these letters and delivering them in paper form in a deliberately vintage way. This was probably a hint of how members of parliament are trying to block the development of progress. Office manager Sam Bul [Sam Bool] told the Mashable publication that the behavior of parliamentarians is an open hypocrisy, because only last week they had a meeting on innovation.



This tense situation, repeated over and over again in all parts of the world where Uber comes to, is due to the fact that local taxi drivers are unhappy with the way Uber selects their jobs. The haulers have to comply with a variety of rules and pay for various licenses, while Uber conquers the market thanks to simple service and low prices.

Recently, 400 taxi drivers lost to the Supreme Court of Western Australia with their demand to punish Uber for violating taxi laws, which, according to the plaintiffs, took place.