93% mail delivery rate

Anyone know more about the new postal coding system mentioned in the article?
 
my Q is how does 93% compare with other POs around the world or say Nigeria? I mean reporting that number out of context is misleading as the criminals employed by SAPO are unlikely to pilfer regular mail. The other day I received a letter with a small cutoff on the side showing sum1 wanted to see if they was anything like money in the envelope.

SAPO must say what the delivery rate of valuable parcels is?
 
Why not list the calculation that resulted in the answer of 93%?
I mean, if you deliver 56 out of 60 letters/parcels, thats 93%.

If you deliver 560/600, 5600/6000, 56000/60000, etc, it starts to become not just 4 items lost, but 4000, which is frightening...
 
I have bought a number of items from overseas and the biggest problem I had was getting the damn delivery notice slip. It never came and then the post office would send back the item to Amazon etc. They need a new method of notifying customers of delivery (DECENT online tracking) and an online form you can print out with a code on it to show that it is your item when you go to collect it at the branch.

But generally, I get all my mail and in good time, so I think the post office has done well to improve. Their branches look modern and offer some useful services. I just wish we could do away with stamps as well. Again, online printable stamps with a code like a cellular prepaid voucher would be great.
 
Well according to their annual report they deliver 6 million items per day. So given that their delivery standard is 93% this would mean that the total items that should be delivered per day should be 6,451,613. In other words 451,613 items don't meet the delivery standard. This is a staggering 112 million items per annum (based on a working year of 250 days).

The question of course is how that delivery standard is defined - my guess is it would be deliveries outside of the standard times, lost items etc.
 
if they try and arrest those resposible the unions are up in arms about it. if it's valuable and important fedX or dhl it.
 
Missing the point...

Why is everyone + dog missing the whole point of Amazon's decision?
Amazon have clearly stated that the problem is not "lost/stolen" mail, but fraud on the part of recipients who do receive the parcel, but then make use of Amazons no-delivery refund scheme by claiming that the mail was lost.
Amazons decision to use higher cost courier services as opposed to standard snail mail is solely for audit purposes, to ensure that the recipient signs and that there is a paper trail to prove this.
If SAPO wants to play wounded animal, they should offer a door-to-door registered post service with ID book authentication to provide due diligence cover for Amazon at a competitive rate.
 
pneuma said:
Why is everyone + dog missing the whole point of Amazon's decision?
Amazon have clearly stated that the problem is not "lost/stolen" mail, but fraud on the part of recipients who do receive the parcel, but then make use of Amazons no-delivery refund scheme by claiming that the mail was lost.
Amazons decision to use higher cost courier services as opposed to standard snail mail is solely for audit purposes, to ensure that the recipient signs and that there is a paper trail to prove this.
If SAPO wants to play wounded animal, they should offer a door-to-door registered post service with ID book authentication to provide due diligence cover for Amazon at a competitive rate.
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Link? Where do you get this information from?
 
Well if your parcel doesn't arrive then you claim for no delivery, how can that be fraud? Sure there must be cases where fraud is happening but I would guess that would be in the minority of cases.
 
pneuma said:
Why is everyone + dog missing the whole point of Amazon's decision?
Amazon have clearly stated that the problem is not "lost/stolen" mail, but fraud on the part of recipients who do receive the parcel, but then make use of Amazons no-delivery refund scheme by claiming that the mail was lost.
Amazons decision to use higher cost courier services as opposed to standard snail mail is solely for audit purposes, to ensure that the recipient signs and that there is a paper trail to prove this.
If SAPO wants to play wounded animal, they should offer a door-to-door registered post service with ID book authentication to provide due diligence cover for Amazon at a competitive rate.
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but you need your id book to collect any sort of parcel at the po - valuable or not.
 
I am not saying that the SAPO does not have problems with theft, but as usual the atmosphere around here is unusually negative.

I have bought parcels from Amazon, EBay, LPGear and a few other sites I can't even remember. Not once has any of my parcels gone missing. And I am talking about at least 40 packages over the last 4 years. These have included Cds, DVDs and books.
 
You've been lucky then...

I've ordered maybe 5 things from overseas...

Got 3 of them.. the other 2 vanished the second they arrived in SA.
 
Now is 93% what they have or want to have? Because Amazon used to be a big thing for SAPO... until the SAPO employees got their kiddies free presents.... and down came our security...
 
It however said there had been 1 699 reports of mail theft in the 2007 financial year.

Spokesperson Lungile Lose said there was a 99% success rate in pursuing these cases.
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hmmmmmm

lets do the math

99% of 1699 is 1682 so according to dear Lungile Lose from our post office there are 17 unsolved theft incidences.
Isn't it weird that of those 17 unsolved theft incidences 3 were mine?:(

Errrm I think not, I think the dear spokesperson has the numbers the wrong way round, maybe there is a 1% success rate in pursuing these cases, and even that would surprise me.:rolleyes:
 
93% my foot.
Letters maybe but definitely not parcels.
I've bought 2 items (R1000+ ea.) on eBay and received 1.
So as far as I'm concerned it's 50/50
The parcel that went missing was tracked to the Airport in the US, but mysteriously it vanished in mid air, and never arrived here.
When I check with SAPO they said they have no evidence that it ever made it to SA and suggested I take it up with the sender. ("nothing more we can do for you")
 
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