The Post Office maintains that its employees are not on strike, but confirmed there are delays in mail delivery on the East Rand.
”The SA Post Office can confirm that mail delivery in sections of the East Rand has been erratic for the past two weeks, as a result of employees who attended work irregularly,” said South African Post Office communications officer Johan Kruger.
”The Post Office has taken steps to rectify the situation and the situation in Benoni is expected to be back to normal by the end of next week.”
This is despite an official at the Benoni Post Office telling the City Times, on Wednesday (June 25), that the IT, transport and logistics and mail and delivery departments were on strike.
Benoni Agricultural Holdings resident Ian Smith said he last received post at the Northmead Post Office on Thursday (June 19).
Smith feels workers are on a go-slow and are still being paid despite the slow service.
He said delays in mail delivery are a big inconvenience and he is worried his municipal accounts, which are in the post, may be due for payment.
Oh bull twang. This problem has now been going on for close to two years. I reside in Farrarmere and I took it up with as high as possible and low and behold NO JOY, I pay for a post box to receive no service at all. I don’t receive my magazines and Newspaper that I pay for. I am so tired of hearing about this so called back log. How long is it going to last. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES, IF YOU CANT PERFORM APPOINT MORE PEOPLE. Really WE DELIVER WHATEVER IT TAKES it is a joke of a slogan. I wonder in which millennium they will deliver what it takes.
I have not seen a post man in my area in Airfield in 2 weeks or more. The dogs go mad in the neighborhood when the post man comes around so they are very hard to miss. The neighborhood has been very quiet lately. Every year we have strikes in June and July. Does that not tell you something.
Hundreds of regristered parcels are being sent back to the senders because notices thereof are not placed in the post boxes. This info has been confirmed by various post office personnel on the East Rand. Kevin please continue to publish public outcry. Why were we not informed about the strike so that alternative arrangements could be made. How can the post offices take money for registered parcels with due knowledge that there is no delivery services?
The comment that its been a couple of weeks is total rubbish. The last time I received post in our PO Box at Brentwood Park was the 4th June. The comment STRIKE is not allowed to be used and was sold rather to say GO SLOW. I am so sick of people wanting jobs and when they have them they think they have earned the right to hold us all hostage. Its about time action is taken,people who want to work and have pride I their jobs should be employed in these positions. I was told if we complain they will burn the huge pile of mail that is growing by the day at the depot in Benoni. GATVOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During the festive season last year we also saw a decline in the mail delivered to our mail box’s. No strike we were told but sporadically over the first three months in the year the odd festive card would appear in our mailbox from overseas. But no strike. The same is happening now I received nothing in my mail box for over a month then 2 letters and since then nothing else. Post is being sent from the council and the banks each month they say as normal but nothing is getting through. Who do we believe. The back log last time did not get delivered so what hope do we have this time….And still we are told NO STRIKE BUT A GO SLOW someone please tell me is
there a difference.