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The South African Post Office is failing — these are the best alternatives
I’m going to bookmark these for myself so long as most of my incoming deliveries via SAPO have been dramatically delayed, and one even had the item inside stolen (and replaced with a metal weight).
It is better for your sanity often to pay more to a 3rd party to have your delivery taken care of. Although the post office has always been the cheapest, the risk is becoming too much, and many 3rd parties are at least getting a lot cheaper. For example, selling items online via BobShop, can have door-to-door courier delivery fees as cheap as R30 per delivery.
See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/496591-the-post-office-is-failing-these-are-the-best-alternatives.html
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SA Post Office signs deal with US online shopping giant Wish to improve deliveries - If they can get end-to-end tracking visibility right it will be something!
Yes it sounds like 'wish'-ful thinking, and it's true that an average 50% plus faster transit time for our post office won't be noticed at all, but if they can get end-to-end tracking right that is really something because right now anything non-courier entering the SA Post Office seems to go into an endless hole in time. Even a query takes a week to two weeks to even get an answer, and then it is often 'we have no record of that shipment arriving'.
Seeing will be believing....
See SA Post Office signs deal with US online shopping giant to improve deliveries
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Online shopping retailer Wish has announced a strategic partnership with the South African Post Office to strengthen its logistics capabilities and customer experience for South African consumers.
