SA Post Office Strike

Is this Post Office strike country-wide?

I have had no delays at all in receiving my usual mail (bills mostly :cry:).

But I also sent a birthday card 9 days ago to one of my granddaughters in Ireland from my local Post Office in the WC, and they have received it already

When I lived in Jhb before retirement a card from Jhb to Ireland would take as long as 30 days to reach them .. and the postage was around R27

Now my posted cards take a max of 10 days, via airmail, and I only pay R7.50 for the postage.

Viva Western Cape, Viva ... and I live 240 km from Cape Town, so that 10 days must include ox-wagon-style transport to Cape Town first.
 
atomcrusher said:
Viva Western Cape, Viva ... and I live 240 km from Cape Town, so that 10 days must include ox-wagon-style transport to Cape Town first.
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Yeah all my post has also all arrived in CPT. Was a bit of a delay but nothing so bad that I started crying. Just a bit hesitant to order more with JHB still a bit off-balance. Although maybe jimc is ok & it's just the Post Offices where the main problems are?
 
saor said:
Yeah all my post has also all arrived in CPT. Was a bit of a delay but nothing so bad that I started crying. Just a bit hesitant to order more with JHB still a bit off-balance. Although maybe jimc is ok & it's just the Post Offices where the main problems are?
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JIMC is closed, the past couple of weeks it was open intermittently. I would not rely on it being open soon or processing parcels as it looks like the violence is spreading.
 
The_Assimilator said:
If ANC morons weren't "running" SAPO, this would be a good time to fire all of the strikers and automate their jobs. Robots don't strike or need pay, and they don't treat customers like **** either.
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They should have automated the sorting centres long ago but whenever automation is mentioned in this country we have unions threatening to strike. Go figure.
 
saor said:
Yeah all my post has also all arrived in CPT. Was a bit of a delay but nothing so bad that I started crying. Just a bit hesitant to order more with JHB still a bit off-balance. Although maybe jimc is ok & it's just the Post Offices where the main problems are?
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My two EMS items aren't even scanned in the local system yet because of this JIMC fsck up.
 
3 letters posted from the UK on 3rd August arrived on 13th October

One was a verification letter for proof of life for my 97 year old mother in law and since they did not receive a reply within the 4 weeks specified, they stopped her pension of £4500 a month. Fortunately, FNB will keep her going at the rate of R 40000 a month but there will be an interest bill to be sure

I called the agency by phone and they are not interested that there is a postal strike on in SA, so now its signed affidavits from 3 separate doctors and a letter from the manager of the nursing home

She will get her back-pay, but it might take several months
 
ambroseg1 said:
That would be a start. Run the place like a business.
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That only sounds like a good idea to free market cultists. Postal services are more often than not state subsidised all over the world. The South African service is having problems partly because they are mandated to provide universal service, but the brain donors in the central government have been cutting off their funding.

OrbitalDawn said:
All the private mail companies should form a massive conglomerate and create a parallel national postal service.
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They wouldn't because they'd not be able to provide a universal service without a state subsidy.
 
ACTPerformance said:
Has anyone had any success in getting their parcels?
Maybe by going to the JIMC....
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No, once, same frikken day the second strike started they took the tracking and then just up and vanished for 3 hours, probably having tea and pissing themself in the back and second time was just closed.
 
chrisc4290 said:
3 letters posted from the UK on 3rd August arrived on 13th October

One was a verification letter for proof of life for my 97 year old mother in law and since they did not receive a reply within the 4 weeks specified, they stopped her pension of £4500 a month. Fortunately, FNB will keep her going at the rate of R 40000 a month but there will be an interest bill to be sure

I called the agency by phone and they are not interested that there is a postal strike on in SA, so now its signed affidavits from 3 separate doctors and a letter from the manager of the nursing home

She will get her back-pay, but it might take several months
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That really sucks badly. It's not like we chose to have a useless PO.
 
Ordered item again and chose courier this time. POS post office can suck my nuts.
 
Nefertiti said:
JIMC is closed, the past couple of weeks it was open intermittently. I would not rely on it being open soon or processing parcels as it looks like the violence is spreading.
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So when using a courier like FedEx or dhl...Do they still clear their items via customs or does the striking not affect them in any way?
 
saor said:
So when using a courier like FedEx or dhl...Do they still clear their items via customs or does the striking not affect them in any way?
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Customs are not on strike. It does not affect them.
 
saor said:
So when using a courier like FedEx or dhl...Do they still clear their items via customs or does the striking not affect them in any way?
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SARS is not on strike, only the Post Office.

So the courier companies are not affected.
 
Jola said:
SARS is not on strike, only the Post Office.

So the courier companies are not affected.
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Well technically speaking it's only certain lazy b-ggers who are on strike in the PO. They work in the incoming hub which means they're delaying everything. PO's in Cape Town are all open.
 
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