Austalia Post’s Digital Mailbox service and Velocity Frequent Flyer tie-up is getting another promotion, this time yielding a bonus 1,000 Velocity Points for adding Velocity statements to your account.
If you don’t already have a Digital Mailbox, you can register here.
As with previous bonus’, you could use this offer with multiple Digital Mailbox and Velocity accounts (ie: your partner and kids) and take further advantage of family pooling. Note that that doesn’t mean adding multiple Velocity accounts to one Digital Mailbox.
The terms are pretty clear about that, and also make sure your name on your Velocity and Mailbox accounts are the same.
To be eligible to earn 1000 bonus Velocity Points, you must register your Velocity membership number within the profile details of your MyPost Digital Mailbox and your first name and last name used to open your Australia Post MyPost Digital Mailbox account must be the same as your Velocity Account. You must connect to Velocity Frequent Flyer to receive your Velocity member statements through MyPost Digital Mailbox by 31 March 2016. Velocity Points will be allocated to your Velocity Account within 10 business days from date of eligible connection. Only one allocation of the 1000 bonus Velocity Points will be provided per MyPost Digital Mailbox account, multiple connections will not result in multiple Point allocations. Velocity Points will only be allocated if the connection has been accepted by Velocity and not for rejected connections. Velocity Points will be allocated to the Velocity Frequent Flyer membership number that has been entered as per the MyPost Digital Mailbox Profile Settings.
This promotion ends 31 March 2016.
The Australia Post Digital Mailbox is a website and app combination which allows you to receive bills directly, removing them from the postal system, and with 1GB free secure document storage, and is straightforward to register for.
The core ongoing benefit for using the application is 50 Velocity points for payments of $50 or more for payments through Digital Mailbox too – you simply scan the barcode on your bill and pay through their app. It’s free to join, if you haven’t done so already, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t sign up yourself (and others) for an account.
With the ongoing 50 points per bill payment, you’ll earn points using your credit card of choice on top of what you’d earn through the Digital Mailbox tie-up. If you pay bills frequently enough it could be worth double-dipping and getting an extra 50 Velocity points as well.
How useful these features are on an ongoing basis depends on what utility providers you are signed up with and whether they have a partnership with Australia Post to get your bills into your Digital Mailbox – or whether you have a use for that storage allowance for general documents. However the app and website are well designed and look to be very useful, if either are the case.
Termination of the MyPost Digital Mailbox partnership
11 September 2017
Effective 29 September 2017, Velocity members will no longer earn Velocity Points with the Australia Post MyPost Digital Mailbox.
Members will also cease to receive their Velocity Statement through the MyPost Digital Mailbox. Statements will continue to be delivered to the email address nominated on your Velocity Account profile. If required, please update your details.
If you have any concerns relating to Australia Post MyPost Digital Mailbox, please call Australia Post on 13 62 45.
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I did this 4 weeks ago although no sign of points here either 🙁
you must have magical powers – my points seem to have appeared in my account this afternoon – someone’s ears must’ve been burning 😉
Is this offer definitely still active, I linked my Velocity statements to my Digital mailbox when this offer was first posted here, but still haven’t received any points? I don’t want to lodge a missing points claim and look silly if this offer doesn’t even exist :p
For thos offer (unlike previous) under 18s are ineligible. It may let you sign up but you will get a rejection email
I got the points credited to my velocity account the next business day after I linked the digital mailbox to a partner agency. So it’s just one day – pretty fast!
How long does it take for the 2000 points to appear in the velocity account?. I have signed up yesterday and linked to a partner agency, and I don’t see anything yet. Also, do we get any intimation when the points are credited to the velocity account?.
I’ve realized my middle name was missing on my australia post digital mail box account where as my velocity membership got the middle name. So’ I’ve logged in to aust post digital mail box settings and added my middle name to match the name on my velocity account but I did that almost 15 hours after initial registration for aust post digital mailbox. Is that going to be an issue?.
I wouldn’t have thought that middle name thing would cause a problem. The terms (paraphrased) are…
If it’s been more than 10 business days since doing it, I’d follow up with Velocity directly. It could also be 10 business days after the promo ends, which leaves another couple of weeks before chasing the points.
“The core ongoing benefit for using the application is 50 Velocity points for payments of $50 or more for payments through Digital Mailbox too – you simply scan the barcode on your bill and pay through their app.”
I don’t quite understand this bit? I have set it up to pay my Telstra bill monthly but why do I need to scan and pay through their app? Can’t I just do it on my PC and they’ll already have a record of it and pay the 50 points automatically?
Australia Post want to incentivise you to pay through them as the payment gateway, and to use their service. Quoting the terms: “50 Velocity Points will be awarded for each eligible bill paid to the value of $50 or more via Australia Post’s MyPost Digital Mailbox… One allocation of 50 Points will be earned per bill paid to the value of $50 or more, multiple payments for the same bill will not attract multiple allocations.”
It’s up on the velocity site now. I signed up. No sign of points yet though! Also signed up for Quickflix for the points. Are there any other quick and simple things like that Keith?
Davey – not that come to mind. But… it is a good idea for a future post. Leave with me!
Keith, did you get an email from velocity
entitled “Don’t let 100 Status Credits fly by” about earning status credits for transferring velocity points from the bank across? I got one indicating 25,000 points transferred to velocity earns 100 status credits. See text below.
“As an exclusive offer, you have the chance to boost your Status Credit
balance simply by transferring your existing credit or charge card
points to your Velocity Account.
Transfer the equivalent of 25,000 Velocity Points or more from one of the participating partners below by 30 June 2014 and you’ll receive 100 Status Credits*.
Hurry, this exclusive offer is available for a limited time only.”
My wife is Gold and she didn’t get one, but I did and am a lowly red (she gets all my points from family transfer)
Just thought I would share as it seems targeted – cheers, Dave
I didn’t get the email, but someone else tweeted me to let me know they did – they got 75k points / 200 status credits. Interesting offer from Virgin!
I got my points a few days ago, it took 2 days after signing up.
Where is the link the offer?
That’ll be https://digitalmailbox.com.au/
Presumably the Australia Post offer is invite only?
Nope, seems to be for anyone.
Should be sign up through any method, but make sure your name / email address matches that on your Velocity account,
Do you need a specific link for this or can you just sign up and access the points?