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

I recently had the misfortune to visit the Pietermaritzburg Post Office.
It was filthy, grimy and illkept.
Security are using a 500ml cool drink bottle with a hole in the lid to squirt hand sanitizer.
There was no parking nearby.
Outside, the front of the building looked & smelt like an unflushed toilet.
I had to collect a parcel sent from the Netherlands, had to pay R30+ "handling/ customs" fees.
If SAPO take over small parcel deliveries you will be paying a "handling fee" for each & every parcel you collect.
They have a recently signed deal with Wish so of course they put special effort into that income generating contract.
 
Dear stupid person at the Post Office, you do that, you will kill small online trade. That's all.
 
This did not work in the past because the Post Office does not deliver to our street address, not even the notification to collect your parcel from the post office counter. I have to import used HDD for my work and they are used for spares only, but they have to be in good working order. The post office has lost most of these parcels and damaged most of the HDD's that I got. It usually takes the post office about 6 weeks to deliver my parcels and no client of mine is satisfied to wait so long before I can attend to their work. The courier is expensive, but I get my parcels the next day from China and all the disks are in good working order when I receive them. I cannot use the post office for my business. In anyway, many of their branches have closed down because they cannot pay the rent. Where does this leave us - my business is time critical and the post office is unreliable.
 
I wounder they still running their courier. Or they just pretend they are still alive.
 
Let's see when this arrives, so far pretty quick from wish. Ordered 24th july
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Jan said:
She added that this law was created to subsidise services that the Post Office cannot deliver profitably.
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This must be those most backward but expected "Africa" thing I've read in a long time.
 
What post offices?

Both of their offices close to me (home and work) were closed!
 
The few Post Offices I regularly use give shocking service and poor customer service. Just this week, I was refused to send a parcel to Tanzania. This service is advertised on their website with a prices advised for Tanzania and that was a 10kg parcel.
Im not surprised at all that they want to do less. They are not even offering services provided.
Oh well....I managed with PostNet. Maybe they will take them to court again.
What the actual.....
 
The SAPO is not delivering any parcels at all. I have been waiting for parcels (<1kg) that arrived in South Africa in March 2020 and some in April 2021. Probably lost (or perhaps stolen). To reword the SAPO complaint (and the law as it is used now). "The SAPO does not want ANY parcels <1Kg to be delivered at all as we want to horde or steal them".
 
In my local PO the lights have not worked for 6+ weeks. Its a rented office so I asked the Postmaster why she didn't ask building management to see to it

"We have to get permission from head office to allow anyone behind the counter and the DB is in that area"

No-one gave permission, so they work in the dark. The only light comes in via the glass door. She cannot use any common sense to get it seen to. All the sorted mail rooms have separate locks, the tills are locked. She cannot trust a single electrician to replace a burnt circuit-breaker.

When you go for a parcel, they walk around with a torch looking for the numbers
 
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Just dissolve SAPO already, like beating a dead horse.
 
It's outrageous, of course. And will seriously hurt tens of thousands of small businesses.

But let's put the blame where it belongs. SAPO didn't make the law. This madness is possible only because our elected legislature chose to make a law that prevents everyone but their own business from delivering packages up to 1kg. Even if the Post Office worked better than any other courier, and was cheaper and faster, that law would still be unjust and immoral.
 
Where is my freedom of choice,
And I don't choose the POST OFFICE.
 
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.
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But you don't deliver them, you make us collect them
 
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
- Ayn Rand

africa strikes again.
 
This won't work sorry SAPO kents this is what is called trying to create a monolopy courier company will go to court that law is old shiieet good luck with trying to implicate it.Sounds like they are trying the same stupid shiieet than the SABC .Just like Telkom.These companies had everthing and they fcked it up no one elses fault.
 
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