SAPO Strike

[BMXER]

With our friends at SAPO and Speed Services on strike,  what options are available to send a small parcel from Cape Town to Pietermaritzburg.

 

Couriers are quoting over R200 making any purchase between centres impossible!

 

Thanks

[fanievb]

berco dropbox? 

 

http://www.aramex.co.za/drop_box_ga/ 

[Cyclewizz]

Try PostNet as well.

[shaper]

http://www.fastway.co.za/

[JGR]

I sent an item through SAPO from CPT to Durban about 2 weeks ago without problems but I have been waiting a month for a parcel from JHB

[Marius]

NOT Fastway, go to HelloPeter, check how many complains I have made already never mind the rest of SA. 

 

I send parcels to PMB almost on a daily bases, we use Worldnet Express - For overnight express you pay about R150, they have Budget prices also ect. Take note it's a Regional Town so you have a 50/50 chance of it getting delivered next day alternatively it'll take 2 days with ONX.

[lerouc]

berco dropbox? 

 

http://www.aramex.co.za/drop_box_ga/ 

I've used the aramax boxes a few times, R99 for a bag and anything that can fit the bag can be shipped any where in SA. I've dropped bags off before the cutoff (usually around 4pm) and have had it delivered the following day in JHB. (from CPT)

[gummibear]

I sent an item through SAPO from CPT to Durban about 2 weeks ago without problems but I have been waiting a month for a parcel from JHB

Could be a problem if its at Benoni PO

 

http://cdn.24.co.za/ugc/pictures/2014/280/4a1394ec-d42b-4663-94ba-34d15d1c4546.jpg

[gummibear]

Try PostNet as well.

PostNet is great and good service.

[Erroli8a8]

i have a parcel that was coming from KZN to JHB, it was stuck in PMB for a month and has only arrived at the JHB Wits post now so its still going to be a couple of days before it gets to my post office counter

[Grebel]

Could be a problem if its at Benoni PO

 

http://cdn.24.co.za/ugc/pictures/2014/280/4a1394ec-d42b-4663-94ba-34d15d1c4546.jpg

 

What they don't realise is that when the negotiations are over, the same twits that created the mess have to go back and clean it up )

[JGR]

Could be a problem if its at Benoni PO

 

http://cdn.24.co.za/ugc/pictures/2014/280/4a1394ec-d42b-4663-94ba-34d15d1c4546.jpg

What will happen to all of the post? Will they deliver it when they start working again or should we write it off? So freakin miffed. Wish the person had sent it another way.

[BenGraham]

I gave up waiting for my new rims to arrive and cannibalized my old rims for my new wheels. They're still sitting at the depo waiting for dispatch. I'm just praying they are still there when the strike is over. They've been in the country since the 17th of September. So annoyed.

[Eldron]

Fark it man - I have two small packages at that Benoni post office.

 

I have a bike thats been standing for weeks waiting for a few parts.

 

Not flippin cool at all.

[FrancoisC]

Bye Bye Africa.

Very soon - so excited.

[jimmycool]

If you need something sent somewhere in a hurry you can take it to your local airport and find the desk that says SAA Cargo. Here you will be able to send just about anything to any one of the other SAA Cargo desks at any airport that they fly to for a MUCH smaller amount than a courier. Best of all, they put it on the very next plane that leaves and it can be collected from the airport that it is going to roughly an hour after the plane lands.

 

I once sent a 5 kg parcel from PMB to JHB at around 06h30 in the morning for about R120 and it was collected in Joburg by my customer at the airport at 10h00.

 

It turns out this is what the courier companies do, they just put all the smaller stuff into a larger bag or box that is going to each different city, put it on the correct flight to that city, and then send a vehicle to collect the bag from the airport and then unpack and deliver each individual parcel - obviously taking a day or 2 to get it done.