Post office branch closures fan fears of job losses 27 May 2021 - 17:48 Image: Gallo Images/Foto24/Felix Dlangamandla
The biggest union at the SA Post Office (Sapo) has raised concerns about the planned closure of 130 branches by the state-owned entity.
Aubrey Tshabalala, general secretary of the Communications Workers Union, told SowetanLIVE during an interview yesterday that the planned closures would result in workers losing their jobs in the long term.
He said that communities where the branches would be closing shop are going to be financially affected as they would need to spend money to travel longer distances to access post office services.
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17 May 2021
Here we go again. What are the chances of the SA Post Office delivering a package to you safely and quickly? They are slim. My experience of the post office is that your parcel will be ripped open, the contents stolen, the empty package delivered to the wrong address and you will spend months at one of its branches paging through a tattered logbook trying to identify your package .
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13 May 2021
My relationship with the SA Post Office is the polar opposite of an ANC voter’s relationship with their party: I always believe the SAPO will screw up, and then it goes and does its job efficiently and honestly.
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