SA Post Office in deep trouble

  • Thread starter Thread starter Bianke Neethling
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Implement legislation which forces all relevant shipping and courier companies to offer SAPO services.
 
just close them already they are no longer required for anything....
 
Implement legislation which forces all relevant shipping and courier companies to offer SAPO services.
It'll be better to just ban all other couriers. Only SAPO allowed. So what if no one ever gets anything every again.
 
It'll be better to just ban all other couriers. Only SAPO allowed. So what if no one ever gets anything every again.
I reckon to have something like an accreditation reading "Authorised SAPO provider" would deal with this issue swiftly.
I won't however put it pass the ANC to force said couriers/shipping providers to employ retrenched SAPO staff and pander to the Unions as part of the agreement.
 
Implement legislation which forces all relevant shipping and courier companies to offer SAPO services.
According to the Treasury, the SAPO has “historically struggled with defining its strategic role as a commercial enterprise, operating within a rapidly changing ICT environment, whilst balancing its distinct developmental mandate”.
They are completely failing at that.
All they need to do is outsource the function to the private sector. Namely take advantage of retail chains.
Then, if there are a couple of really remote places that don't have any shops, those are the places where they can maintain an actual branch.
 
On the plus side, South Africa is showing how a country really doesn't need a postal system. We're probably one of the biggest economies in the world that doesn't have a functioning postal system and hardly anyone even notices anymore.
 
SA Post Office in deep trouble

Despite more than R10 billion in government bailouts, the South African Post Office forecasts a loss of R2.1 billion for 2022/23 – and said it lacks funding.

Nothing new. Quite common in all SOE's. Next article they go belly up and under business rescue. Article after that they are in operation again and turned into profit. We all know the ending of these Proudly South African fairy tales.
 
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