Do we need the post office?

Does South Africa need a state owned post office?

  • Yes

    Votes: 81 22.7%

  • No

    Votes: 264 73.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 12 3.4%
  • Total voters
    357
C4Cat said:
Many countries around the world have a functioning state owned postal service.
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Some countries own their postal service, a people’s service, others have independent postal services or have state-owned postal services. Most allow the private postal services to compete against the already mentioned. The state should never own a monopoly, embargoing private services, not in my view, but we institutionalise said practice,

www.dailymaverick.co.za

Postal wars: SA Post Office fights courier firms to retain monopoly on delivering small parcels

If the South African Post Office can’t be trusted to deliver a Christmas card on time, or even pay its own bills, how can it be trusted to deliver other small parcels and postal goods?…
www.dailymaverick.co.za www.dailymaverick.co.za

In terms of Sapo and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) interpretations of the Postal Services Act of 1998, letters and parcels weighing less than 1kg are reserved for Sapo, while unreserved postal services, such as those provided by couriers, can be upwards of a kilogramme. The private courier sector disagrees, saying the Post Office is incapable of offering the service and that the act was written with the postal service in mind – never deliveries.
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SA is wearing the crown where competition are deemed unhealthy by the state.
 
I used to be of the view that it's existing infrastructure that could be repurposed and made profitable. But it's so dilapidated now that it won't make sense.

Also, the fewer SOE's our government has to mismanage the better.
 
Yes, where else are we going to renew vehicle licenses? Only reason I go there now LOL
 
I saw the Postman in the street last week. His bag was full of advertising flyers. He said that morning, there were 4 letters to deliver on his rounds

20 years ago there was so much mail that there were 2 of them doing deliveries.

He also added that he was still waiting for his August salary. This on 22nd September
 
We already have a private-owned post office called Postnet, I much enjoy supporting my kind of people in their business ventures anyway.
 
pinball wizard said:
Me too. He had a big bag, mostly letters. Walking the streets in the Benoni Small Farms. Why don't they have bicycles anymore like they used to?
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Actually, our postman does still have a bicycle. The mail that I DO still get regularly are traffic fines for my daughter-in-law and notices of toll charges.
 
Definitely yes.

There's a need for sheltered employment, especially in the thirty-percent market.
 
Voted Yes, because I still paid my vehicle license there (MUCH quicker than traffic department) and because IF it were re-organised, it would serve a useful purpose. Couriers expensive and not always the answer and drone-drops not far enough developed yet.
 
Other: we don't need the post office, but I need the post office vehicle licensing service counter, until there is something better, that doesn't cost more.
 
Nope, any services the post office "allegedly" provides can de done cheaper and more efficiently by a private entity or online.
 
Wary GOM said:
Voted Yes, because I still paid my vehicle license there (MUCH quicker than traffic department) and because IF it were re-organised, it would serve a useful purpose. Couriers expensive and not always the answer and drone-drops not far enough developed yet.
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You can renew your vehicle licence online.
 
No. It needs to be privatised (because anything our good government touches turns to turd). Incentivised into performance. Held to account if it fails in its standards.
 
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