The Post Office is failing — Here are six affordable alternatives

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The Post Office is failing — Here are six affordable alternatives
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Here are six affordable, point-to-point courier alternatives to the South African Post Office.

The South African Post Office is failing, with the company racking up enormous debts with its landlords, auctioning off its branches, and falling short of its delivery targets for more than ten years.

She added that the postal service had run up a municipal bill of R915,000 for water and electricity, attributing the outstanding amounts to Sapo’s “constrained cash flow position”.its staff’s pension fund contributions, medical aid, or income tax. MyBroadband conducted a real-world test of the Post Office’s delivery efficiency, which did not go well.

When sending a parcel, DSV will notify the recipient when it’s at the DSV Locker you selected for collection. Similarly, you will be notified when a package sent to you arrives at the collection locker.Easy Collect and Drop provides courier services for three scenarios — ECD point to ECD point, door to door, ECD point to door, and vice versa — with prices starting from R35.

PAXI pick-up points include PEP, PEP Cell, PEP Home, ShoeCity, and Tekkie Town stores across the country.Postnet offers courier prices starting from R99 for parcels up to 5kg. It charges R20 for each kilogram over 5kg.

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