SAPO actually has plenty of opportunities to properly self-sustain as a public institution at arms length from government:
[1] it retains a monopoly on registered mail - this is
[2] it has a comparative advantage in small value imports due to the structure of customs and collections
[3] it has a preferred supplier status for government on a host of services included authentication and cryptology which is held by SAPO rather than SITA - leveraging this preferred bidder status by a well run SAPO could produce an incredibly powerful and catalytic business services provider
[4] several SAPO fold entities do in fact function profitably - Docex certainly doesn't run at a loss
if SAPO is extended to have a power to serve summons commencing action and become the front desk of a claims adjudication system it could do quite well
The problem is that the SAPO is treated as a pork barrel for government mismanagement and as long as the tune of "let the post office die" is sung so stupidly this will continue - inefficient post office, whining, bail out.
[1] it retains a monopoly on registered mail - this is
[2] it has a comparative advantage in small value imports due to the structure of customs and collections
[3] it has a preferred supplier status for government on a host of services included authentication and cryptology which is held by SAPO rather than SITA - leveraging this preferred bidder status by a well run SAPO could produce an incredibly powerful and catalytic business services provider
[4] several SAPO fold entities do in fact function profitably - Docex certainly doesn't run at a loss
if SAPO is extended to have a power to serve summons commencing action and become the front desk of a claims adjudication system it could do quite well
The problem is that the SAPO is treated as a pork barrel for government mismanagement and as long as the tune of "let the post office die" is sung so stupidly this will continue - inefficient post office, whining, bail out.
