SA Post Office Strike

Who did the deliveries for the guys who got parcels from USPS priority..? I still can't locate the local courier company and Ebay have shown themselves to be USELESS with resolving queries and issues.
 
Zenbaas said:
Who did the deliveries for the guys who got parcels from USPS priority..? I still can't locate the local courier company and Ebay have shown themselves to be USELESS with resolving queries and issues.
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There is no courier delivery for USPS Priority Mail. That goes straight to your designated Post Office.
Courier delivery is for EMS.
 
Vernon said:
Is there such a thing as Priority Express? Is that like a combination of the two?
AFAIK, it's either USPS Priority Mail International, or USPS Express Mail International.
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Ah spot on Vernon, its Express Intl. That one has vanished :(
 
Vernon said:
There is no courier delivery for USPS Priority Mail. That goes straight to your designated Post Office.
Courier delivery is for EMS.
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Something is very dodge with this whole order of one. It only took 9 days from the states to the PO supposedly.
 
Zenbaas said:
Hmmm so EMS uses their own couriers...?
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They have dedicated SAPO employees who do the deliveries. The truck may be marked with the EMS logo. But it's still SAPO.

THey did deliver to me once on a Saturday. :)
 
From the mail sent during the "strike" I received one small parcel from china which was opened and the contents obviously found worthless and left in place and a bigger parcel from the USA which was partially looted (no tax though). Also two taxed items arrived. The rest vanished or did not even appear in the SAPO system.
This makes me believe that we face the biggest post-heist in history of man with a well organized gang looting JIMC. That now everybody is happy if something still surfaces only distracts from what I think is fact, that posted items estimated worth billions of Rand have disappeared.
It is the almost perfect crime and one can be sure that the next strike is already scheduled to be able to repeat it.

The answer cannot be to use expensive couriers or to send everything registered and insured alone for the costs. A working reliable mail service is part of the definition of "civilized nation" and divides the hopeful from the lost ones.
Except one just is fine with South Africa being regarded as a nation of crooks what seems to be the dominating opinion in Australia and NZ anyways already.

But this issue is not addressed by anyone, despite sending some decoys with trackers (not GPS but celltower/wifi based) would expose the organized criminals in question in no time with little efforts or costs. Costs for the tracker? USD20 or less, just do a search for "WIFI sniffer sent by mail" or similar where somebody buildt something useful Rasberry Pi based.
One of the reasons that stealing mail is not so common is that it can be easily prevented - if there is an interest in doing this.
Whilst ESKOM is the painful death of the ancient socialistic idea of parastatals as backbone of a working economy which is stupidily also the backbone of ANC economic ideology, and as such somewhat explainable and far from over, the SAPO is only a shame for the whole country and nothing else.
 
sovielenamen said:
This makes me believe that we face the biggest post-heist in history of man with a well organized gang looting JIMC. That now everybody is happy if something still surfaces only distracts from what I think is fact, that posted items estimated worth billions of Rand have disappeared.
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I agree with you.
I also think that there is an organized syndicate at work at the JIMC.
These thieves must be caught.
But it seems that no one gives a *$%^.
 
So what exactly is the plan to re-start the post office?

Or have they seriously just given up on being a post office?
 
Well I got a reply to that mail I sent them 3 weeks later. They have no knowledge of my parcel and will inform me once they receive any. Well done SAPO, I knew a month before that already that it was sent back.

I think it's safe to say if you didn't receive your parcel by now that was sent last year it was probably on that truck that was burnt down.

sovielenamen said:
The answer cannot be to use expensive couriers or to send everything registered and insured alone for the costs. A working reliable mail service is part of the definition of "civilized nation" and divides the hopeful from the lost ones.
Except one just is fine with South Africa being regarded as a nation of crooks what seems to be the dominating opinion in Australia and NZ anyways already.
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^ This. I spent over R200 to get a DHL parcel here only because of the amount of my order. Normal charge is over R400. Then I still had to pay a hidden R150 fee. Seriously almost R600 for a parcel is not a realistic option for me.
 
So I Guess we can write off our packages, Can they now just hand over to an independent company so that we can start ordering international parcels please.
 
Mila said:
So I Guess we can write off our packages, Can they now just hand over to an independent company so that we can start ordering international parcels please.
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I was wondering if they sorted out their issues, but it seems not :( oh well. Expensive couriers it is then.
 
For me my Righstuf parcels are still in limbo. SG and JP stuff seems to arrive, but slowly.
 
For anyone interested in how our postal service compares with other postal services, the bulk shipper Ascendia has an updated list of postal service problems across the world. You'll find an occasional strike and some natural disasters and wars. And of course, guess which country features with most disruptions....

http://www.asendiausa.com/news-tools/global-hotspots/

I counted SA 14 times, that's more than any other country, and not for bad weather, cancelled flights, landslides, wars and earthquakes but for stupid strikes. We truly are lost.
 
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