{"id":549521,"date":"2006-07-14T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549521-law-to-help-post-office-keep-up.html"},"modified":"2006-07-14T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T07:25:13","slug":"law-to-help-post-office-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549521-law-to-help-post-office-keep-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Law to help Post Office keep up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Consultations had been held on the proposed Postal Services Amendment Bill, which would be tabled in Parliament this year, said communications department spokesman Albi Modise yesterday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One provision will prohibit the Post Office from using income from reserved postal services (normal mail) to subsidise other postal services (such as courier services). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Also, new and clearer definitions will be given to courier services, value added services, universal postal services and under serviced areas. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Modise said ways had to be found to make sure the Post Office remained relevant in a technological environment where e mail communications were steadily increasing. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIn response to technological developments and the convergence of services, the bill proposes that the postal operator must be allowed to extend services beyond basic traditional postal services,\u201d Modise said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In addition to expanding the ambit of postal services, the bill will also remove postal regulation from the department and move it to the Independent Communications Authority of SA. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>INet-Bridge ||<\/em> <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=47996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislative changes are in the offing to enable the Post Office to keep abreast of technological developments and ensure it continues to maintain a share of the communications market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549521"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}