The Dismal SA Post Office failure

What a dismal failure the post office / Customs has become, ever since I can remember its been such a mission to get international packages delivered. With the advent of online shopping you would imagine that they would up their game but its just become worse. Now that the postoffice is in a financial shambles they decided to implement a R 25.00 odd fee for any foreign parcel. So you have to pay in most cases for shipping, but then you need to pay on this side to collect.

NOT that that R 25.00 fee makes it any better, its still a shambles and in many cases the parcels are still pilfered along the way. I have been waiting months for things I bought on eBay, Wish, Ali...

Also, suddenly when you do manage to get a package in you see a "spam" like SMS that starts with a ; Never in my life have I seen this, who is doing their IT? If thats not enough then when you arrive at the post office there will be a queue of people just like you, all waiting to collect. In the past collections were quick, now its a whole mission to pay, scan ID, sign here, sign there..

I have started looking for online deal that offer DHL, you pay for it but at least its guaranteed to arrive..

The post office is just making it such a pain to use their services, soon no one will bother and there will be no need for their services..