south african post office (sapo)

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    Jet park speed service is holding my parcel without communicating.

    Hello, I have ordered an item from AliExpress and it arrived safely in South Africa, it passed customs and it was received by Jet park speed service on the 25th November 2024. The order was supposed to be delivered on the 3rd of December 2024, when my parcel was not delivered I contacted speed...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Post Office Amendment Bill signed into law

    Post Office Amendment Bill signed into law President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the South African Post Office Amendment Bill into law, setting the stage for a significant transformation of the country’s postal service into a modern, multi-functional hub for government, business, and community...
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    RTIA's big traffic fine whoopsie

    RTIA's big traffic fine whoopsie The Road Traffic Infringement Agency has incurred a substantial debt to the South African Post Office to deliver payment demands for invalid fines, the Sunday Times reports. Citing two sources, the paper reported that the agency had to forfeit the income...
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    Post Office creditors approve turnaround plan, which includes firing 6,000 more workers

    Post Office must fire 6,000 workers — or die The South African Post Office's creditors have voted in support of the Business Rescue Plan developed by its joint business rescue practitioners. The plan, created by Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons, involves restructuring the SA Post Office...
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    Post Office business rescue practitioners reveal the depth of the hole it's in

    SA Post Office in a massive hole — R7.9 billion deep The South African Post Office’s (SAPO) liabilities exceed its assets by R7.9 billion, meaning it is hopelessly insolvent and will need tremendous assistance to survive. Last week, the SAPO Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs), Anoosh Rooplal...
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    SAPO debt surges to R12.5 billion

    SAPO debt surges to R12.5 billion The South African Post Office (SAPO) is insolvent, and its debt obligations have increased to R12.5 billion. This is according to a statement from the business rescue practitioners this week, who said the state-owned company must improve revenue and implement...
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  8. Jan

    Post Office's Business Rescue Practitioners believe it can be saved

    Post Office can be rescued The South African Post Office's (Sapo) Business Rescue Practitioners believe there is a reasonable chance that the state-owned entity can be rescued. This was one of the outcomes of the first meeting of creditors, according to a press release from the Post Office's...
  9. Jan

    Post Office dodges liquidation, gets placed in business rescue

    Post Office snatched out of liquidation and into business rescue The North Gauteng High Court has placed the South African Post Office (Sapo) in business rescue. This comes after a landlord to which the Post Office owed rent, Bay City Trading, received an application to place the failing...
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  10. Jan

    No Post Office execs punished despite billions being squandered

    Billions squandered at the Post Office — no punishment for execs The South African government hasn't punished any Post Office executives for spending money destined for the state-owned enterprise's turnaround plan. This is according to communications minister Mondli Gungubele's response to...
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    The South African Post Office closed 314 branches in three years

    Goodbye Post Office — over 300 branches closed in three years The struggling South African Post Office (SAPO) has lost about a quarter of its branches in the past three years. That is according to a response from communications minister Mondli Gungubele to a question in Parliament raised by...
  12. Jan

    Telkom drops Post Office as payment channel

    Telkom drops the South African Post Office Telkom has announced that account payment options for their customers will no longer include the South African Post Office. The partially state-owned telecommunications company said dropping the state-owned mail carrier “aims to streamline payment...
  13. Jan

    Post Office alternatives for parcel deliveries and licence renewals

    The Post Office is failing — these are the best alternatives The South African Post Office (Sapo) is collapsing, with the state-owned company auctioning off branches, failing to pay staff medical aid contributions, cutting jobs, and consistently falling short of its delivery targets. Sapo has...
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    Durban family finally gets postal package from New York — 13 years after it was sent

    Durban family finally gets postal package from New York — 13 years after it was sent A family in Durban has been left stunned after taking delivery of a package from the South African Post Office that was sent over 13 years ago. The Hanekoms of the Upper Highway Area recently found two...
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    Eskom-as-we-know-it will cease to exist like SAA and SAPO - Dawie Roodt

    Kiss Eskom goodbye Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt predicts that Eskom would follow the same path as South African Airways (SAA) and the South African Post Office (SAPO) and “simply come to an end”. “Eskom is completely bankrupt. It has been operationally and financially run into...
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    SAPO possibly owes staff R1 billion in pension payments

    SAPO possibly owes staff R1 billion in pension payments The Post Office has been deducting pension fund contributions from workers’ salaries, but the last time any money was paid over to the retirement fund was in April 2020. Authorities will not say how much is owed to the retirement fund, but...
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    Mondli Gungubele insinuates former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes is being holier-than-thou

    "Holy" Mark Barnes is running his mouth — Mondli Gungubele South African Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mondli Gungubele, suggested that former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes was not as good a steward of the beleaguered state-owned mail carrier as he claims. Gungubele told...
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    Post Office must explain provisional liquidation

    Post Office must explain provisional liquidation South Africa’s government has requested more information from the state-controlled post office about financial problems that threaten its survival. Minister of communications Mondli Gungubele said he wants SAPO, as the postal system is known, to...
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    Mark Barnes says his proposal to buy and save the Post Office still stands

    Former Post Office boss' plan to save the bankrupt mail carrier Former South African Post Office (SAPO) CEO Mark Barnes’ proposal to save the now-bankrupt state-owned enterprise (SOE) and turn it into a national treasure still stands. The SA Post Office was placed under provisional liquidation...
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    Former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes comments on provisional liquidation

    Post Office faces liquidation with billions owed The South African Post Office (Sapo) is in provisional liquidation, even though the state-owned entity's former CEO, Mark Barnes, says it has been bankrupt for 18 months already. Sapo owes billions of rands to its creditors, and Business Day...
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    Online vehicle licence disc renewal comparison - Post Office vs Natis vs FNB vs Spar vs Pick n Pay

    Cheapest vehicle licence disc renewals in South Africa South African motorists have to renew their vehicle licence discs annually, and a MyBroadband analysis has revealed that doing so through the South African Post Office offers the most affordable nationally available option. MyBroadband...
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