SA Postal Service is an absolute joke!

I'm so sick of SA Post. I ordered an item from overseas LAST YEAR (shipped on 27/12/2018) and I'm STILL waiting for it (current date 03/07/2018). I can't even track it anymore and the local post office just tells me (like it's normal and should be acceptable) that some people have been waiting longer than I have! It's hard enough to find some of these items which will actually ship to South Africa and with the way SA Post (barely) operates I'm not surprised. SAPO is an ABSOLUTE JOKE.