SA Post Office closing branches as it is unable to pay rent

[Jamie McKane]

SA Post Office closing branches as it is unable to pay rent

The South African Post Office (SAPO) is on the verge of financial collapse and has closed numerous branches after failing to pay rent.

A recent presentation at the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee revealed just how big a financial mess the Post Office is in.

 

[Hellhound105]

Brrrrmmmmm tssssss

 

[Mila]

Still?
So can we cancel the Po#skantoor now?
And get customs to be handled by a private company?

 

[ThinkCentre]

Get the unions that made the people to strike for so long, to fix the company!

 

[Hemi300c]

But SOE's are so important..........

 

[Beyond.Celsus]

 

[BBSA]

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

 

[N@t3]

Close down please, then followed by SABC and SAA etc etc...

 

[chromedome]

So a postal levy soon..

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

So a postal levy soon..

Yeah what we need is a postal levi on every private courrier package. This levi will be for "the possibility to use the post office".

 

[Vrotappel]

viva anc viva

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Close down please, then followed by SABC and SAA etc etc...

SABC will never close, the ANC needs them to portray the government as this glorious bunch of nice people
SAA will never ever close down as government officials in parliament get free flights locally and internationally for themselves and their families. Some of them have this as a benefit for entire lifetime. I know Trevor Manual still has this benfit. So nope, it is never ever ever ever gonna go away.

viva ANC

 

[SWB]

Wonder if Mark Barnes is laughing.

 

[ForceFate]

Get the unions that made the people to strike for so long, to fix the company!

I think it's more internal inefficiencies, maladministration, stiff competition, etc more than the strike. The need for huge floor space has diminished with emergence of specialist courier companies that are more efficient, as well as much of what PO used to do going online. They need to move with the times.

 

[ForceFate]

Wonder if Mark Barnes is laughing.

All the way to the bank definitely. He was part of the rot.

 

[Synaesthesia]

It's just mismanagement. Other countries also have "socialist" (state owned) postal services that do just fine.

 

[SWB]

All the way to the bank definitely. He was part of the rot.

Ja but I think he got to much internal resistance to actually do anything.

 

[ForceFate]

It's just mismanagement. Other countries also have "socialist" (state owned) postal services that do just fine.

Yeah, UK seems to be doing well in that regard...

 

[ForceFate]

Ja but I think he got to much internal resistance to actually do anything.

Yet he stayed.

 

[ProfA]

Ja but I think he got to much internal resistance to actually do anything.

Internal resistance because he wanted to turn a post office into a bank.