Update to the SAPO strike (Important Warning)

[Cat]

VandaL, make it 4 to 5 weeks, their +-3 is probably optimistic.

i just want my HHV.

PS: DURMAIL is quite good for enquiries though. There's one friendly lady at the Customs that used to help me out. i used to get lot of bike stuff, to collect at DURMAIL, my office was next-door to it, then somehow they started sending everything to Marine Parade.

 

[VandaL]

VandaL, make it 4 to 5 weeks, their +-3 is probably optimistic.

i just want my HHV.

PS: DURMAIL is quite good for enquiries though. There's one friendly lady at the Customs that used to help me out. i used to get lot of bike stuff, to collect at DURMAIL, my office was next-door to it, then somehow they started sending everything to Marine Parade.

Yea DURMAIL is quite good, been there quite a few times. Used to have a guy call me as soon as my parcels arrive so I wouldn't have to wait 3 days for them to get it to my nearest post office which is 1KM away from there.

I just want my damn IPV3 and VTC5's

 

[Mike43110]

VandaL, make it 4 to 5 weeks, their +-3 is probably optimistic.

i just want my HHV.

PS: DURMAIL is quite good for enquiries though. There's one friendly lady at the Customs that used to help me out. i used to get lot of bike stuff, to collect at DURMAIL, my office was next-door to it, then somehow they started sending everything to Marine Parade.

It will forever be +-3 weeks I fear.

The last sapo post said 22 days.

 

[Cat]

To clear the backlog? i don't believe it.They were on strike for most of two months, how much overtime are they doing? All they can do is work weekends and some people can work a few hours extra each night. Employment Act limits how much overtime/etc, and no taxis if it's too late.
3 weeks means 6 weekend days, maybe 3 or 4 hours extra each night...? And that's the depots, what about the local PO.

btw, USPS is also quite lousy now in some places, i often see it mentioned.

 

[Mike43110]

I have also seen the USPS complaints.
USPS is at least making attempts at alternative forms of funding to keep themselves in business.

A shame the PO can't just bugger up the overtime as well. Nothing like 7am to 2am for 3 nights in a row and Saturdays included for 3 weeks to clear up any backlog. Of course you are dead inside afterwards

Nautilus mini + iStick + 5 BVCs + 5 Protank coils + 220ml fluid + 4 drip tips + nauti penis tank + control board for 3d printer...

Seeing as the courier guy has a reasonably priced courier service that doesn't require too much admin to use, I will probably never use SAPO again if I can avoid it. I am sure enough people are going to follow suit that SAPO is going to have more issues.

I just want my damn fluid and coils...

 

[free3dom]

To clear the backlog? i don't believe it.They were on strike for most of two months, how much overtime are they doing? All they can do is work weekends and some people can work a few hours extra each night. Employment Act limits how much overtime/etc, and no taxis if it's too late.
3 weeks means 6 weekend days, maybe 3 or 4 hours extra each night...? And that's the depots, what about the local PO.

btw, USPS is also quite lousy now in some places, i often see it mentioned.

You are assuming that before the strike they actually worked their entire shift

I think that actually working during nomal hours they have probably increased productivity by about 300%

 

[Cat]

Yes, i imagine they've all had an official letter read out to them. Like, now that we have got salary increases, there is this serious backlog, and we have to get the show on the road.

 

[Daniel]

nauti penis tank

Would not want to suck on that

 

[Rowan Francis]

JIMC operations
To work off the backlog, employees at the Johannesburg International Mail Centre are working two shifts per day now and are currently clearing more than 100 000 items per day. To speed up the clearance of letters coming from abroad, some of the incoming bags containing letters are sent directly to other mail centres from processing and then dispatched to their destinations from there.

Yesterday, the Johannesburg international mail centre received 1700 mail bags from other countries. The sorting centre is putting priority on dispatching all items that are going from South Africa to other countries.

 

[kimbo]

JIMC operations
To work off the backlog, employees at the Johannesburg International Mail Centre are working two shifts per day now and are currently clearing more than 100 000 items per day. To speed up the clearance of letters coming from abroad, some of the incoming bags containing letters are sent directly to other mail centres from processing and then dispatched to their destinations from there.

Yesterday, the Johannesburg international mail centre received 1700 mail bags from other countries. The sorting centre is putting priority on dispatching all items that are going from South Africa to other countries.

And mine has been sitting there for a month now .. Happy Month day Kamry K1000

 

[Arthster]

So using private courier services are still ok then?

 

[Cat]

The sorting centre is putting priority on dispatching all items that are going from South Africa to other countries.

, that means we wait another 4 weeks.

They need this that cracking sound make them wake up.

 

[Mike]

Ok folks, I need to get this parcel urgently. Anyone know if I'll be able to collect it at customs or is it somwhere between there and my local P.O? Trying to get an (early) Xmas present for a family member who's heading out of the country and I'm terrified I'll miss it!

 

[kimbo]

@Mike i have one sitting there going for two months now

 

[Mike]

Hopefully that won't be the case. This was shipped via EMS and it has been accepted and cleared customs in under a week so I think it's being dealt with by different channels.

 

[VandaL]

Hopefully that won't be the case. This was shipped via EMS and it has been accepted and cleared customs in under a week so I think it's being dealt with by different channels.

My EMS parcel is still with SAPO, and it left USA on 23 October. There was as strange update last week saying it left JHB, but nothing after that. I cannot track it on any local sites etc.

 

[Mike]

Thanks @VandaL . Not sure if you noticed in my picture, but I already have a local tracking number and it has already been to and left customs, so again, I think I'm a couple of days ahead of you. Lets hope we both get our goodies soon!!!

 

[VandaL]

Thanks @VandaL . Not sure if you noticed in my picture, but I already have a local tracking number and it has already been to and left customs, so again, I think I'm a couple of days ahead of you. Lets hope we both get our goodies soon!!!

Well if you have a local tracking number there should be no doubt the EMS man will deliver within this week.

 

[Mike]

I really, really hope so

 

[Cat]

@Mike
In transit , JHB INT MAIL CENTRE (HUB)
That's the last time it was scanned, when it left the international hub, after it returned from Customs (the previous entry.) EMS is delivered by Speed Services, it doesn't go to local PO. In Durban, it is delivered directly from the DURMAIL hub, but Pretoria, i suppose it would go to the Pretoria depot, get scanned on arrival, then scanned again when it is loaded into the Speed Services van for delivery.
That last entry was the 6th at 02:46 (presume that's AM?)...loaded into truck to Pretoria. You should have got it today, if not yesterday. Seems like it would add an extra day because of transit from JHB to PTA. The odd thing is that it has not been scanned on arrival at PTA depot.

 

[Cat]

PO collection slip for this was delivered this morning. Approximately 4 weeks late but it was during the strike period.
This copied from mtbaker order system:

Date Shipped Shipping Method Tracking Link
13th Oct 2014 USPS (USPS (First Class Mail International Parcels)) LN165909495US

i'm going to do one or two orders with EMS tonight/tomorrow, i'll see whether EMS is back to normal at DURMAIL. Probably not quite - going by Mike's at JHB, it took 5 days to get to Customs and then 2 days to get back from Customs. :-/

 

[Cat]

The freaking SAPO website is also slow! It's freaking timing out!

@VandaL , ja, yours still in the incoming pile at DURMAIL, still not scanned in. :-/

http://www.emssouthafrica.co.za/Tracking/domestic.html server is on strike.

 

[Snape of Vape]

It's been more than a month now on two parcels I have incoming. I doubt that I'll get my MBV juice before I leave on holiday, I seriously hate SAPO

 

[kimbo]

When i ordered my Kamry K1000 in July i was looking to take it with me fishing in September. But SAPO did not agree with me. It arrived in DBN October and was send on a month later to JHB (for some reason) now i am hoping for xmas present but that seems to fade fast, Maybe a Birthday pressie from me to me in March

 

[Nooby]

Capemail Hub is also delayed now. They have my package for 8 days now! Not yet on a shelf