South African Post Office?

Question

A day after US online retail giant Amazon (who deliver parcels worldwide) announced that it was no longer offering South African customers standard postal delivery due to massive theft by SA Post Office employees, the Post Office has announced that it will sell cut-price books, DVDs and CDs direct to the public outside the back door of its branches nationwide.

According to a statement made by Post Office spokesman Gift Mkhize, the new retail outlets would operate on a cash-only, first-come first-served, don't-ask-don't-tell basis.

He added that for those customers who did not feel like queuing there would be "mobile franchises" parked near most branches, where the public was welcome to buy goods out of the boots of Post Office employees' cars.

Asked if the Post Office was ashamed at being the only postal service in Africa to be blacklisted by the US retail giant, Mkhize was defiant, saying that Amazon's bold branding on its packaging was to blame for the rampant pilfering.

Answer 1

Hope you don't mind, but I'm copying this. This is too good to let it end here.

Great one!

Answer 2

Very Funny - eish with a name like "Gift" what do you expect everything he touches he reckons is a gift from his brothers in the ANC!!!

Answer 3

This has to be my favourite paragraph:

"He said that a 2003 initiative to install metal detectors at staff entrances had been compromised when all the metal detectors were stolen by employees, who then sold them back to the Post Office, which subsequently lost them."

Sounds exactly like an incident that would really happen at the AA Post Office.

Answer 4

Bloody guys , im going to sue , they are infringing on my business , now the guys wont come to Lugs to buy from me, they can just go to the post office...

I will take this up with the compettion commission, this is not fair...

Answer 5

Lmao! Is this for real, Cat? Sheeesh!!