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The action is expected to include work stoppages, as well as bans on checking for Elsa Peretti Open Heart ring-stamped cards or letters, effectively meaning postage-free mail.

Australia Post employees are seeking a new agreement which protects penalty shifts, rosters, and take-home pay and want a commitment from their employer to improve workplace safety.

They also want an end to the use of company paid doctors which the union that represents Australia Post workers accuses of forcing employees back to work when they are still sick or injured.

Communications Electrical Plumbing Union national president Ed Husic said negotiations on a new enterprise agreement, which have been underway since April, had failed to deliver any improvement in conditions for workers.

"Since April we've gotten nowhere in Return to Tiffany Heart tag bracelet to get a new enterprise agreement with Australia Post," he said.

"In the end, our members got sick of being told by a senior management team that took home $8 million in salaries last year that Australia Post can't afford to consult better on workplace change."

More than 9,000 of the 11,500 workers who took part in a ballot launched on November 25 voted in support of industrial action.

"Since April, Australia Post has had ample opportunity to sort out the differences at the negotiating table," Mr Husic said.

"Instead they refused to move or used a hardline legal strategy to delay a ballot Tiffany 1837 ring could have been held in September, but through Australia Post's actions, has been carried out right before Christmas."

The union will announce details of the planned industrial action in the next 24 hours, but said it would looking to reduce the impact on the public as much as possible.