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SA Post Office Strike
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Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
On Friday I got two items ordered from Hong Kong on 31-Aug and 7-Sep.
sybertiger
Expert Member
Mine has been averaging 2 months and its due this week
:'(
where have u had it ship from?
im waiting for some mail also
makes me sad,how slow everything is
been waiting 12days for signed documents to come via mail from 150km away
if its that slow localy how long will mail from the us/uk take
Exactly. We're fooked . Sound like they're going to start striking tomorrow again again the wage issues. I took a month for two local parcel to arrive for me.
ichigo
Executive Member
Still waiting for mine around the same date and November last year.
2 days from US/UK and then 2 months from JHB to wherever you are.
Post Office wins court order against strike
Gareth van Zyl
Johannesburg - The South African Post Office (Sapo) has won an urgent court interdict to halt planned strike action on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at a media briefing said it was planning a march involving an estimated 4 000 Gauteng postal workers in Johannesburg.
CWU issued demands to convert all Sapo contract workers to permanent employment, payment of outstanding back pay, 10% salary increases for the current financial year, a halt to changes in workers’ terms and conditions of employment and a “total stop to piecemeal salary payments”.
Union members further expected to submit a memorandum to the Gauteng Premier David Makhura outlining more demands for government to bail out Sapo and release a Special Investigative Unit (SIU) report on corruption at the Post Office.
CWU also called for the Public Protector to release a report on corruption at Sapo.
But Sapo has poured cold water over CWU's strike plans.
“The Labour Court has granted a final order against the industrial action which CWU has scheduled for tomorrow,” said Sapo in an emailed statement to Fin24 on Wednesday afternoon.
“The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been interdicted and restrained from striking and marching to, and/or picketing at the SA Post Office’s work premises; including the head office, retail outlets, mail centres, depots, regional office and hubs tomorrow, 29 October 2015.
“This order effectively makes any strike, march and/or picket unlawful and illegal,” said Sapo.
But in response to the court interdict, the union told Fin24 that it is consulting its legal team and still plans to go ahead with the march, even it just passes by Post Office buildings to the offices of the Public Protector and Gauteng legislature in Johannesburg.
"The strike is not off," CWU provincial spokesperson Veli Zulu told Fin24.
Meanwhile, CWU said earlier on Wednesday that its intended march was planned before the advent of Sapo’s problems with paying salaries.
Over the last week, Sapo has publicly announced that it’s negative financial position means that it’s struggling to pay full salaries and that it paid staff 70% of their full salaries last week.
Sapo said that it plans to pay the remaining 30% on Wednesday.
Fin24
Source
http://www.fin24.com/Tech/News/Post-Office-wins-court-order-against-strike-20151028
Gareth van Zyl
Johannesburg - The South African Post Office (Sapo) has won an urgent court interdict to halt planned strike action on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at a media briefing said it was planning a march involving an estimated 4 000 Gauteng postal workers in Johannesburg.
CWU issued demands to convert all Sapo contract workers to permanent employment, payment of outstanding back pay, 10% salary increases for the current financial year, a halt to changes in workers’ terms and conditions of employment and a “total stop to piecemeal salary payments”.
Union members further expected to submit a memorandum to the Gauteng Premier David Makhura outlining more demands for government to bail out Sapo and release a Special Investigative Unit (SIU) report on corruption at the Post Office.
CWU also called for the Public Protector to release a report on corruption at Sapo.
But Sapo has poured cold water over CWU's strike plans.
“The Labour Court has granted a final order against the industrial action which CWU has scheduled for tomorrow,” said Sapo in an emailed statement to Fin24 on Wednesday afternoon.
“The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been interdicted and restrained from striking and marching to, and/or picketing at the SA Post Office’s work premises; including the head office, retail outlets, mail centres, depots, regional office and hubs tomorrow, 29 October 2015.
“This order effectively makes any strike, march and/or picket unlawful and illegal,” said Sapo.
But in response to the court interdict, the union told Fin24 that it is consulting its legal team and still plans to go ahead with the march, even it just passes by Post Office buildings to the offices of the Public Protector and Gauteng legislature in Johannesburg.
"The strike is not off," CWU provincial spokesperson Veli Zulu told Fin24.
Meanwhile, CWU said earlier on Wednesday that its intended march was planned before the advent of Sapo’s problems with paying salaries.
Over the last week, Sapo has publicly announced that it’s negative financial position means that it’s struggling to pay full salaries and that it paid staff 70% of their full salaries last week.
Sapo said that it plans to pay the remaining 30% on Wednesday.
Fin24
Source
http://www.fin24.com/Tech/News/Post-Office-wins-court-order-against-strike-20151028
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Don't CWU get it?! #FeesMustFall that includes their fees -> #SalariesMustFall
R13...
Honorary Master
They are also striking over wholesale incompetence and corruption at SAPO, those two issues are worth striking over.
Jola
Honorary Master
That 2 months could extend to a year, or perhaps forever.
The_Assimilator
Executive Member
Wholesale corruption and incompetence that they are part and parcel of.
I get that, but why do it when SAPO cannot cope financially? Their previous strike also included that and look what happened. Surely there has to be a better way to deal with the incompetence and corruption?
Sinbad
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Vote the ANC out.
AndreKotze
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Ebay order shipped 24/12/2015 and I just received it... WOW
Mighty
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Wow!
I am still waiting for an order placed and shipped on the 18th Dec
Where about was your order from (what country) and what kind of postage option did you select?
Jola
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Wow!
I am still waiting for an order placed and shipped on the 18th Dec
Where about was your order from (what country) and what kind of postage option did you select?
Been waiting years and months for some stuff.
Most recent 23 Oct 2015.
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AndreKotze
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I used the free shipping option and it came from Hong Kong...Wow!
I am still waiting for an order placed and shipped on the 18th Dec
Where about was your order from (what country) and what kind of postage option did you select?
Acid0
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Ok so my Parcel arrived at JIMC now the game starts of "who will get my Parcel" either the sorting guy, the post office guy or me...... at least I have a 33.33% chance .... 
Just a warning to anyone who has the unfortunate situation of still using the post office.
I called to find out why a parcel has not been through customs after 4 days of being "Incoming International" I got a sob story about backlog and overtime to clear the parcels.
So any new orders are most likely going to just sit there and wait. Gotta love South African efficiency.
I called to find out why a parcel has not been through customs after 4 days of being "Incoming International" I got a sob story about backlog and overtime to clear the parcels.
So any new orders are most likely going to just sit there and wait. Gotta love South African efficiency.
EchoZA
Expert Member
Parcel took three days from LAX to JHB, it "arrived" in customs mid October... still no sign of it. 8x parcels mising in the space of the past 4 months and counting...