The Post Office wants to force its dysfunctional service on South Africans.
When one buys something, it is a basic assumption that what they have bought is theirs. It is a basic and just assumption that they get to choose how what they have bought is handled and delivered to them.Sapo has been embattled in financial difficulties for a while. Like most state-owned entities under the ANC government, its performance has slowly deteriorated over the years.
Yet, for survival, SOEs must commit injustice after injustice in the market. For their survival, SOEs mostly need the use of state legislative force to be shielded from market forces. The Competition Commission has been silent on the matter proposed by Sapo. The idea that there is a segment of the market that ought to be free from competition is contrary to every tenet of anti-trust law; misguided as those tenets may be.
If a particular consumer chooses for their parcel to be delivered by a company either than the Post Office then as humans, with dignity and freedom, they are free to do so. More economic freedom leads to better living conditions; the literature on this is plentiful. Yet, government and its enterprises seem to think decreasing economic freedom and choices in a struggling economy like ours is the way to go.The fact that this needs to be said shows the anti-freedom stance that has been adopted by the government and its enterprises; as if they forgot that our freedoms are not given to us by the state or government.
Online companies that are reliant on couriers for their deliveries will suffer greatly. These companies have foregone Sapo for a reason, and simply barring them from using couriers will have an impact on their models.
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