Post Office returns parcel to sender - 8 months after we sent it

[hj007]

I can't wait for NHI /s

 

[OhYeah84]

No surprise. ANC wins at destroying anything that used to work.

 

[Cray]

Getting it back at all sounds like a win considering this is the Post Office.

 

[Grubscrew]

The only shocking thing is that the parcel wasn't stolen.

It was at the bottom of the pile, hence it would have been work to steal it and that just doesn't happen at the post office.

 

[Ikhraam]

We tested the Post Office's parcel delivery — and the results were shocking

MyBroadband has been waiting for a parcel sent from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) to Centurion for eight months (238 calendar days, 163 working days), and it finally arrived — back at the sender’s address.

The parcel contained a GPS tracker and was sent with the Post Office’s ordinary mail service.

It's good that your test confirmed what we as users or now non-users of SAPO long know. It's of course not surprise thar the entity needs funds which I guess will be lost as soon as Treasury paid it to them. My view let this mismanaged, ineffective and inefficient entity just die. There are already alternatives to the services they are supposed to provide us. Nobody will miss them other than their union.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Haaibo! That is not a GPS tracking unit. That is a fart detector.

 

[RonSwanson]

We clearly need to intensify Transformation, AA and BEE at the Post Office.

 

[Unreal]

I’m gonna go ahead and comment before I read the article.
We’ve come to expect the post office to be horribly bad, so if the results were shocking, does that mean they were good?

 

[Rouxenator]

8 months for me

 

[LazyLion]

Should have sent it by Courier Pigeon.....

Pigeon transfers data faster than South Africa's Telkom

A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.

www.reuters.com

 

[gregmcc]

That parcel did some serious travelling around the country!

 

[Goosfrabba]

4 packages sent. All 4 are still accounted for. That's a win

 

[epah]

What about the letters we sent back in 2017, are they still flowing in?

 

[Wut]

I have four parcels that have been making their way through the postal system for nearly a year. They sat at customs for almost 5 months, then another 4 months at the Joburg sorting center and now 2 months at the PE sorting center

 

[TimTDP]

After 5 months, still waiting for a letter to be delivered. Posted at Cape Town Post Office. To be delivered in Lakeside, Cape Town!

Got to hand it to the anc. They have really $%%^ the Post Office

 

[joecool]

We tested the Post Office's parcel delivery — and the results were shocking

MyBroadband has been waiting for a parcel sent from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) to Centurion for eight months (238 calendar days, 163 working days), and it finally arrived — back at the sender’s address.

The parcel contained a GPS tracker and was sent with the Post Office’s ordinary mail service.

I'm impressed that the parcel did not go "missing" or was nicked. BTW this is the same Post Office that wishes to become the sole courier company to be allowed to deliver parcels up to 1kg. What madness is afoot in our land? PS Good luck all those waiting for their heart pills from your pharmacy

 

[Praeses]

You can literally walk and hand deliver the parcel many times faster if you only walked 10 hours a day at 3km/h.

 

[Calkem]

Im pretty sure whatever parcel you sent is no longer new but now "used"

 

[cavedog]

That parcel did some serious travelling around the country!

No wonder they don't have money. Keep hauling parcels around the country that shouldn't be in those regions.

 

[Totempole]

8 months...not bad...There is still hope...

I mean, it wasn't stolen, so there's that.