No choice but to cut Post Office jobs - CEO

"The Post Office also highlighted other factors that contributed to its dire financial situation, including:
Courier companies allowing their services for parcels under 1kg"

Yes, they are out to get you.
Must legislate the communist utopia into fruition soon.
 
Well I guess when you don't have any Post Offices left then it's difficult to keep people employed.

I needed to take my grandmother to a Post Office today to get here SASSA pension card renewed.

Started at Parklands Post Office as it's the only one left in the area (Big Bay, Boy De Goode and Bayside branches have all closed within the last few years).

Parklands branch is still open but they don't do SASSA cards, not surprised. They tell me I have to go to Milnerton branch.

Drive to Milnerton branch, get there and they tell me they can't help because they don't have any SASSA cards and won't be getting more anytime soon. I'm told the only Post Office in Cape Town that can help is Mowbray and I must do it quickly as they're also running out of cards.

So I drive to Mowbray, and to nobody's surprise they have also shut down (apparently yesterday). Sign on the door says I need to go to Clareinch branch.

Off on another adventure to Claremont, 4th time's a charm and they're actually helping people with SASSA cards. A few people in front of us but it didn't take too long to finish up.

Now imagine I can't just jump in a car and drive endlessly to find a Post Office, which is the majority of people on SASSA grants. How the hell are they supposed to know where to go, you can't phone the post office and ask because nobody answers the phones.
 
"Mona explained that employee salaries make up 68% of its expenditure"

Not to be a "I told you so" or "I saw this coming" guy, but... In 2014 a Mid-weight designer (3 - 5 years experience) who was employed by the Post Office applied for a position at the company that I was working for - I interviewed him, really like him and moved to offer stage. Got his paperwork (including latest payslip) and at that stage he was earning R950K p/a CTC - for a mid-weight designer!? I remember telling my CD that there was no way that the Post Office could sustain salaries like that
 
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Benedict A55h0le said:
You are still high if you think you will be getting that:ROFL:
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I will be very happy with my 2 grand a month
Covers my levies and rates and taxes municipal bill
Will have around 150 bux change after that to buy some electricity units

Old Age Rocks :thumbsup:
 
Pineapple Smurf said:
I will be very happy with my 2 grand a month
Covers my levies and rates and taxes municipal bill
Will have around 150 bux change after that to buy some electricity units

Old Age Rocks :thumbsup:
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But you own a laanie flat in Somerset West, so you are excluded. Or are you planning to sell, drinking spree, and then live in a shack when you are old?
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
But you own a laanie flat in Somerset West, so you are excluded. Or are you planning to sell, drinking spree, and then live in a shack when you are old?
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Where da **** do you come up with a larnie flat?
Place is a dump falling apart
I would be lucky to get R600k for it
 
Pineapple Smurf said:
Where da **** do you come up with a larnie flat?
Place is a dump falling apart
I would be lucky to get R600k for it
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I know that flat disqualifies you. It is a dump only on the inside. It is still a laanie complex in a laanie area. I know where you live, I estimate that to be valued at R2,5mil.
 
Benedict A55h0le said:
I know that flat disqualifies you. It is a dump only on the inside. It is still a laanie complex in a laanie area. I know where you live, I estimate that to be valued at R2,5mil.
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Sweet Jesus :oops:
Got cash?
I will give it to you half price
Deal :thumbsup:
 
So 28 years is the magic number. The number of years it took the ANC to totally destroy a working, profitable country, to something we see today.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Well I guess when you don't have any Post Offices left then it's difficult to keep people employed.

I needed to take my grandmother to a Post Office today to get here SASSA pension card renewed.

Started at Parklands Post Office as it's the only one left in the area (Big Bay, Boy De Goode and Bayside branches have all closed within the last few years).

Parklands branch is still open but they don't do SASSA cards, not surprised. They tell me I have to go to Milnerton branch.

Drive to Milnerton branch, get there and they tell me they can't help because they don't have any SASSA cards and won't be getting more anytime soon. I'm told the only Post Office in Cape Town that can help is Mowbray and I must do it quickly as they're also running out of cards.

So I drive to Mowbray, and to nobody's surprise they have also shut down (apparently yesterday). Sign on the door says I need to go to Clareinch branch.

Off on another adventure to Claremont, 4th time's a charm and they're actually helping people with SASSA cards. A few people in front of us but it didn't take too long to finish up.

Now imagine I can't just jump in a car and drive endlessly to find a Post Office, which is the majority of people on SASSA grants. How the hell are they supposed to know where to go, you can't phone the post office and ask because nobody answers the phones.
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