Mark Barnes’ plan to save bankrupt SA Post Office

  • Thread starter Thread starter Bianke Neethling
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Oh f**k off Mark.... you could not even turn it around. Leave things to the private couriers who are already doing a great job.
 
rvZA said:
Oh f**k off Mark.... you could not even turn it around. Leave things to the private couriers who are already doing a great job.
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private couriers deliver letters to your house?
Provide banking services to Sassa people?
Certify documents etc?
 
“If those conditions are met, then you end up saving a commercially irreplaceable infrastructure, a fabulous channel between the government and the people of South Africa and a whole bunch of jobs and precious data the state could use for the virtue of our people,” he said.
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Nothing can replace our people's virtue
 
ToxicBunny said:
private couriers deliver letters to your house?
Provide banking services to Sassa people?
Certify documents etc?
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No one still sends letters.
Sassa grants shouoldnt even exist.
You can certify documents at SAPS

Why do we need SAPO again?
 
ToxicBunny said:
private couriers deliver letters to your house?
Provide banking services to Sassa people?
Certify documents etc?
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private couriers deliver letters to your house?

Yes, if you pay for it.

Certify documents etc?

No, but they could. Instead I use my local attorneys, school principal, pastor or even police station for that.

Provide banking services to Sassa people?

No, but that seems to be the only valid thing you want a post office for. So, close it down and let banks or retail companies do the payment.
 
epah said:
No one still sends letters.
Sassa grants shouoldnt even exist.
You can certify documents at SAPS

Why do we need SAPO again?
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For the middle class and up, SAPO is largely a useless entity, for the lower class it is an essential.
 
ToxicBunny said:
For the middle class and up, SAPO is largely a useless entity, for the lower class it is an essential.
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K@k! The lower class do not even have a SAPO office remotely close to them or at least without the need to spend a lot of money in traveling to one. During Apartheid years this was the case, government ensured they had access, but the past 30 years they all closed down.
 
ShaunSA said:
Nobody cares about the lower class. They're just voting fodder
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Clearly, cos SAPO is in provisional liquidation
rvZA said:
K@k! The lower class do not even have a SAPO office remotely close to them or at least without the need to spend a lot of money in traveling to one. During Apartheid years this was the case, government ensured they had access, but the past 30 years they all closed down.
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So what do you think the lower class do? They spend the money to travel to one and then stay until they get their shyte done, or come back the next day... some (in certain areas) even camp outside the PO if they don't get served on the first day they're there.
I'm guessing you've never left your house on a Sassa grant day (though this is less of an issue these days with Spar and places like that able to pay out grants).
 
Creag said:
In Malelane the local Spar provides these payouts. It creates mayhem but they get it done.
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Even in my dodgy neck of the woods in Pinetown the Super Spar does it, and it causes a bit of chaos for a few hours, but its done and dusted quickly.

Generally an example of what private sector can do when given the opportunity to do so.
 
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