When to send your Christmas parcels?
"Send their Christmas parcels early", urges the SA Post Office.
THE South African Post Office has urged customers who want to mail Christmas parcels to consider doing so as soon as possible to avoid dissapointments.
“Customers who use the ordinary mail service to send their Christmas gifts abroad should make sure they mail their parcels as soon as possible to ensure that the parcels reach their destinations in time,” said Janras Kotsi, head of Mail Business.
According to Khulani Qoma, spokesman, South African Post Office, the latest times to mail parcels to ensure delivery before Christmas is as folows:
All air mail items must be posted on or before 11 December and all surface mail destination items should be posted before the following dates to ensure delivery:
22 November to Tristan da Cunha, Ascension, St Helena , 25 November to Australia, North and South America, Asia, Europe and UK, Middle East and the Seychelles, Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion, 13 December to Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe and 22 November to all other countries.
Kosi also reported that registered items can be insured against non-delivery, but not damage, due to the fact that they do not have control over the contents of a package, or the packaging material used.
Speed Services, the SA Post Office’s courier arm, can deliver items weighing 1kg or less, overnight nationally for only R69 from 11 November to 20 December.
