Post Office's plan to block couriers from delivering parcels under 1kg

Post office services demand that you use them for parcels between 0 to 1kg but they are so pathetic you either wait a few weeks or not get the parcel at all.
Now the government makes it law to use SAPO to save their butts going down... ( in fact they are already down )
Some international online stores know that SAPO is pathetic and they do not want to deliver to South Africa because they have to re send the item at their cost to make up for loss and theft.
Way to go SAPO
 
Keithk said:
Post office services demand that you use them for parcels between 0 to 1kg but they are so pathetic you either wait a few weeks or not get the parcel at all.
Now the government makes it law to use SAPO to save their butts going down... ( in fact they are already down )
Some international online stores know that SAPO is pathetic and they do not want to deliver to South Africa because they have to re send the item at their cost to make up for loss and theft.
Way to go SAPO
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IIRC isn't that the reason amazon left in the first place?
 
cavedog said:
I stand to be corrected but the same law compel them deliver to those areas.

What she is saying makes sense. No courier company wants to touch those routes and if they do you pay very high costs. The Post office delivers to those areas and still charge the low post office rate. Each package to those destinations is a loss and it's a loss that SAPO really can't afford.

Simple example.

If you make an energy drink in JHB and only distribute it locally at R10 a can and make profits. If you are forced to sell in CPT at the same price you will be making a loss. You are not allowed to abandon that area or increase prices. Definitely you will need a bailout soon.
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I don't disagree that they have locations that aren't profitable at all, but the PO has considerably more structural issues to resolve before they can think of targeting things like Courier companies and the small parcels. Its no good trying to resolve your profitability to remote regions when you can't even deliver reliably into the major metros in an even vaguely acceptable timeframe, or guarantee that the package/letter will even arrive.
 
2 years ago an order came in from Europe.
Because of this law the goods went to the Post Office.
Customs had cleared the goods within 48 hours.
The recipient had to get a court order to get the Post Office to release the goods 8 months down the line.
Only to find it had been stolen.
Now that's great corruption service for you!

Unfortunate South African reality, no recourse in this dictatorship.
 
Im still waiting for 2 parcels to be delivered from overseas that I ordered in June
August now
Money down the drain

**** you SAPO !!!!!!
 
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I'm going to sue SAPO when I get fatter! Now I have to order 1kg of food from UberEats as opposed to just one pizza ...
 
kolaval said:
How do normal citizens stop something like this from happening?
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JZ's supporters showed you the way. Burn every post office to the ground.

Slightly off topic, do postmen still exist? I remember seeing them on bicycles riding around, delivering mail. Did that really happen or am I victim of the Mandela Effect?
 
I do not have a post box on my driveway. I live in a gated estate. The post office does not deliver mail to my street address.
 
Cant trust them to deliver a normal letter so would I trust them with a package ? No ways.
 
Jan said:
SA Post Office's plan to block all courier deliveries under 1kg

South Africa Post Office CEO Nomkhita Mona said by law, they are the only institution that is allowed to deliver packages between 0 and 1 kilogram.

She added that this law was created to subsidise services that the Post Office cannot deliver profitably.
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So...where is this "plan"?

Nothing in the article except BS legislation...that has been blocked and the fact that the Post Office demands a monopoly on a service that they admit they cannot provide.

The African clown show continues.
 
Screw you Post Office thieves.
Never using anything related to PO ever again, my last 2 parcels went missing and the third took months to arrive, only to stand in queue for hours to collect.
Nope never again.

I would rather the shop offer me a 1L water at checkout to make up for the weight and pay for that, than to have my parcels come close to a post office.
 
But then they still expect a private courier company to do the work.

Typical Government/BEE modus operandi. Just add more cost to the process. The company that did do the work initially now have to tender for it and give part of their profit to SAPO.
 
I have two small packages (each below 1kg) that arrived in SA on 7 June 2021 at 15:29. Zero movement since and SAPO still says it is not scanned into their system. One is a replacement device for something that broke, and this is a pretty good example of why I try to avoid SAPO at all costs. They seriously cannot handle and deliver packages coming into SA. The JOKE here is these parcels came in FOR SAP to deliver, but they have BLOCKED them too?
 
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Danie_V said:
I have two small packages (each below 1kg) that arrived in SA on 7 June 2021 at 15:29. Zero movement since and SAPO still says it is not scanned into their system. One is a replacement device for something that broke, and this is a pretty good example of why I try to avoid SAPO at all costs. They seriously cannot handle and deliver packages coming into SA.
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But you can't compare international packages getting stuck at the customs warehouse with national packages going from one town to the next. We promise that your national packages will be delivered within 24 hours.
 
The Post Office barely exists! In some towns they had the offices closed due to no payment to land owners!
They need on their image and let people try to trust them again. The post office need to do much better than this including not stealing parcels before we can make use of them again! Until then, there are many other couriers in the Yellow Pages!
 
cavedog said:
I stand to be corrected but the same law compel them deliver to those areas.

What she is saying makes sense. No courier company wants to touch those routes and if they do you pay very high costs. The Post office delivers to those areas and still charge the low post office rate. Each package to those destinations is a loss and it's a loss that SAPO really can't afford.

Simple example.

If you make an energy drink in JHB and only distribute it locally at R10 a can and make profits. If you are forced to sell in CPT at the same price you will be making a loss. You are not allowed to abandon that area or increase prices. Definitely you will need a bailout soon.
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I get why they "need" it. But the simple fact is that the PO had a service that no courier could or wanted to compete with. Not only did they let that slip so that couriers became even more expensive but businesses would rather sponsor the additional predictable cost than replace stolen goods. It was based on competition rather than law but their incompetence couldn't make it work.

If they get their way they will simply go the way of outsourcing like every state department and employ couriers to do it. They'll deliver to those areas not because of their monopoly but because they'll increase the cost overall which is the opposite intent of the law.
 
They don't need to sub-contract and be involved at all. That sounds like work!

I suspect they will just assert their monopoly position and sell licenses to couriers who want to play on their law-given turf. It will increase the couriers' cost of business and subsidize SAPO. Couriers will serve the public as they do today and some 'delivery tax' will be worked into the consumer price for shipping.
 
Another proposal from a minister completely unqualified for her portfolio. Medicines HAVE to be delivered on time, they are perishable and cannot survive the temperatures of the post office system let alone the rough handling they would be subject to. Lives are at stake!! Spare parts for machinery, medical equipment, laboratory equipment, aircraft, HAS to arrive, ON TIME or else people will die, aircraft will not fly on time, industry will grind to a halt, all because a bankrupt government department with no knowledge of business wants to hijack a business model that private industry is operating profitably to conceal it own abysmal management and provide more opportunities for corrupt deviation or profits and tenders again.
 
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