Post Office close to collapse

Hanno Labuschagne

Hanno Labuschagne

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Post Office close to collapse

Millions of gold SASSA cards are expiring over the next few months and post offices are overflowing with people needing to renew their cards.
  • Human rights organisation the Black Sash has raised concern about the limited staff to help beneficiaries as well as the way long queues are managed.
  • However, the Post Office says that queues outside its offices are not unusual during peak times, especially on grant payment dates.
Chaos ensued outside the South African Post Office branch in Athlone, Cape Town this week.

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This SASSA card is all bulls### The morons should have gotten all banks to create a special type of account with no charges. All grants can then get paid into these account, obviously after the grant recepient opens it, and the recipients can then use then to withdraw the cash or swipe and pay for goods and services.

But this is wakanda and we don't do that here
 
Sarg3_ZN said:
This SASSA card is all bulls### The morons should have gotten all banks to create a special type of account with no charges. All grants can then get paid into these account, obviously after the grant recepient opens it, and the recipients can then use then to withdraw the cash or swipe and pay for goods and services.

But this is wakanda and we don't do that here
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There was? It used to be paid to ABSA and they managed it all and afaik fees were either zero or greatly reduced for pensioners. There is no reason it can’t go to one of the big 4s to manage.

The problem wasn’t ABSA, the problem was the government cadres who wanted kickbacks and side hustles which wasn’t possible while ABSA was in the mix so they opted to move it somewhere they could control - and steal from.
 
neoprema said:
The problem wasn’t ABSA, the problem was the government cadres who wanted kickbacks and side hustles which wasn’t possible while ABSA was in the mix so they opted to move it somewhere they could control - and steal from.
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This will unfortunately always be an issue in SA under the ANC or any other party for that matter. Whatever happens will need to cater for this too.
 
3WA said:
It's there, it's fast, and it's the cheapest way.
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Maybe cheaper. But not as fast as a couple of clicks on the eNatis website.
But they screwed up my disc. Got it in Feb and the expiry was 28-02-2024. After a month they realised that 2024 is a leap year. Nevertheless they sent me an updated one (well actually for two vehicles) free of charge delivery included.
 
Dan C said:
Maybe cheaper. But not as fast as a couple of clicks on the eNatis website.
But they screwed up my disc. Got it in Feb and the expiry was 28-02-2024. After a month they realised that 2024 is a leap year. Nevertheless they sent me an updated one (well actually for two vehicles) free of charge delivery included.
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I prefer not having to wait in one place for delivery. So walking in and doing it when it suits me works for me.
 
3WA said:
I prefer not having to wait in one place for delivery. So walking in and doing it when it suits me works for me.
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I have no choice. I work from home. But Skynet normally phone to make sure they can deliver at a given time. (well at least where I live)
 
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