South Africa needs the Post Office

[Daniel Puchert]

Post Office critical for South Africa

Despite the financial burden the Post Office has posed to South Africa, its services are still necessary to increase e-commerce penetration in the country.

This is according to Zulzi CEO Donald Valoyi, who told Cape Talk he believes the Post Office is worth saving.

 

[Lupus]

Do we??

 

[SykomantiS]

No we don't

 

[Kosmik]

Ah, pep? pargo? etc.

We don't need the post office, shut it down. It doesn't work and hasn't for a long time.

 

[HAL 9000]

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

We need the Post Office like Gauteng need E-tolls

 

[Supervan II]

FOUR months to just deliver a local municipal account.

 

[Lupus]

FOUR months to just deliver a local municipal account.

3 years for some stickers

 

[Thor]

I cannot recall when last I used the post office, or anyone that I know for that matter.

When last did you use it and why?

 

[notayoba]

If we haven't been able to use it for years, and life went on without a hitch, how can it be classified as something we need?

Shut it down, and take the SABC with it while you are it. Billions saved, no impact on anyone.

 

[Baise]

The ANC needs the post office to deploy Cadres, pat ridiculous salaries and fund their corruption schemes.
SA on the other hand does not need the PO

 

[deweyzeph]

There is no postal service in rural areas. There never has been. That argument is complete rubbish. And now the Post Office can't even deliver letters in urban areas, how the hell is it ever going to do anything for rural areas.

 

[Pax]

Ai Daniel, ai. Really? We DO NOT need the post office. Where have you lived for the last 30 years? Under a rock?

 

[longboy]

Dannie... wys jou muis somewhere else. We do not need the poeskantoor.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

 

[notayoba]

how the hell is it ever going to do anything for rural areas.

I have a plan.

• R250B for fancy new post office buildings in rural areas.
• R50B or so for new Mercs, so that the cadres, their secretaries and close family can travel to these new buildings to inspect them.
• R150B for jets to get to the further sites for inspection.
• R100m per month for fact finding missions to Paris and Dubai.
• R100B for hotel costs and catering while the inspections are going on.
• R100M for the press. To call any opponents to my plan racist.
• R zero for salaries for component people to run it.
• R1B bribe to cover anyone looking into the scheme.

I think my plan must resemble the actual plan with at least a 90% match.

 

[Quicks]

ANC cadre's seeing the gravy is starting to run dry. Maybe one last bailout and then it's done finish.

 

[konfab]

So these guys:
> Admit the post office doesn't work, and doesn't fulfil its mandate, even in muh sacred rural areas
> Admit the private sector has stepped in to take its place
> Yet thinks that people in rural areas need it?

As a model, it is completely broken. If the state wants to ensure that people living in deep rural areas can pick up and send packages, then they should simply create a tax exemption for entities to provide postal services to underserved areas.

Change post office licensing to include private players like Paxi, and Postnet. I.e they offer a service where you can pick up and drop off packages/letters, as well as receive ecommerce packages and they can deliver to other locations around entire country

Have the exemption apply to the whole delivery business as a reward, and have it such that it only applies to the first two licenced entities that get there first.

State doesn't have to do anything other than manage the list of underserved areas and licencing the correct operators.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Donald Valoyi is a bit misguided.

Does SA need a Post Office that functions and provides universal services? Yes
Do we need SAPO in its current form, fsck no.
Can SAPO be transformed into the entity the country needs? Nope.

 

[My_King]