Ousted Australia Post boss Christine Holgate is leading a strategic bid by private delivery operator Team Global Express to access the postal enterprise’s “last mile infrastructure”, in a plan she says will boost services including in regional areas.

As Labor considers ways to modernise Australia Post’s services, the chief executive of Team Global Express (formerly known as Toll) has called for the government-owned business to open up community post offices and other delivery infrastructure to third-party operators such as her company.