SAPO delivered a parcel notification slip to a MyBroadband tester four months after they'd collected the package

[mylesillidge]

The Post Office took 4 months to notify us about a parcel we had already collected

The SA Post Office delivered a parcel notification slip to one of MyBroadband’s testers four months after they had already collected the item from the branch.

In mid-December 2025, we conducted a parcel delivery test by sending two parcels from Centurion to Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth): one with the Post Office and one using a The Courier Guy locker.

 

[icantchooseone]

thats quite normal these days . they are lucky they even got it

 

[OCP]

Lucky the parcel was received at all never mind the notification.

My daughter ordered something from Temu - took 4 trips to post office before we finally got it.

Months later I got a slip to pay for "handling fee"

 

[RedViking]

That's like my Absa notifications.

 

[Goosfrabba]

“We are aware that the Regional General Manager of the Eastern Cape assisted the client to receive the parcel on 2 Jan 2026, which he was pleased with,” they said.

It took 3 weeks...what exactly is he pleased with?

 

[bwana]

“We are aware that the Regional General Manager of the Eastern Cape assisted the client to receive the parcel on 2 Jan 2026, which he was pleased with,” they said.

What does that even mean?

It took 3 weeks...what exactly is he pleased with?

Depends who "he" is - the recipient or the general manager...

 

[JerryMungo]

What does that even mean?

The GM was pleased to have meaningful work.

 

[bwana]

The GM was pleased to have meaningful work.

Meaningful?

“There must have been an error with the collection note being sent out after the parcel had already been received. We apologise for this error.”

If you look at the slip it was stamped six days before the parcel was collected.

 

[My_King]

Hell yeah

 

[HumanShield]

on brand for the post office. no one should be surprised with that.

 

[Lupus]

Speeding fine in September paid in Oct, notice delivered June.
Package from Germany shipped in 2022, arrived in 2025

 

[Smiggles]

Had to pay and ship my Stanley tumbler to Awesometools to have it replaced. The lid Stanley US send me via PO I've never received. Another glorious ANC cockup.

 

[Goosfrabba]

Gravitational physicists should study SAPO. There has to be some sort of time dilation there since what should take a week to complete takes them 3 years.

 

[Justanotherguybythesea]

Hey, I have a parcel that was supposed to be delivered in 2000, still waiting, should be here any year.

 

[Flanders]

They need to re-calibrate the carrier pigeons.

 

[Justanotherguybythesea]

They need to re-calibrate the carrier pigeons.

Think they have changed to carrier snails, though, and then chose the oldest ones.