{"id":306768,"date":"2019-05-17T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=306768"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:39:07","slug":"sa-post-office-it-systems-will-be-down-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/306768-sa-post-office-it-systems-will-be-down-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"SA Post Office IT systems will be down tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office has announced that its IT systems, including those used by Postbank, will be down from 22:00 on Saturday 18 May until 06:00 on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This downtime is scheduled to accommodate the SA Post Office&#8217;s IT unit testing back-up and uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Postbank customers in particular are advised to complete all transactions they require before or after the times mentioned above,&#8221; said SAPO.<\/p>\n<p>The following services will not be available during the downtime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email<\/li>\n<li>Postbank transactions<\/li>\n<li>Sassa card withdrawals<\/li>\n<li>Track and trace<\/li>\n<li>Point-of-sale system<\/li>\n<li>Third-party systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The testing is essential to ensure a better and stable IT environment for all Post Office and Postbank transactions,&#8221; said SAPO. &#8220;We apologise for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/enterprise\/306702-bad-news-for-south-african-it-jobseekers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bad news for South African IT jobseekers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office has announced that its IT systems, including those used by Postbank, will be down from 22:00 on Saturday 18 May until 06:00 on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":144173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18668],"tags":[48212,3736,22355],"class_list":["post-306768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-it-systems","tag-sapo","tag-south-african-post-office-sapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306770,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306768\/revisions\/306770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}