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Wo., 18 Junie 2008 09:16  |
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Amazon halts SA Post Office deliveries
Lesley Stones
Information Technology Editor
RAMPANT theft by Post Office workers has infuriated the internet
retailing giant Amazon so much that it will no longer send goods to SA
by post.
Anyone wanting to order directly from the US-based website must now
pay for a private courier service  adding about R420 to the price of
a DVD.
SA's postal status makes the country the pariah of Africa, since no
other country has had postal deliveries scrapped. The only other
African country that cannot use the cheapest standard postal service
is Nigeria, although Amazon still trusts Nigeria's post office if
buyers pay a slightly higher expedited shipping rate.
The new restriction came in at the weekend, with customers being told
the theft rate was so high that goods would no longer be delivered
unless they paid a priority shipping rate of $39,99 per order and an
incremental $9,99 for each extra item.
Amazon has long distrusted SA's postal service, and already refuses to
deliver high-priced goods such as electronic items or perfumes,
restricting shipments to CDs, DVDs and books. Private scamsters have
also aggravated the crime rate, as people ordered and received goods
but claimed not to have received them, forcing Amazon to send
replacement items at its own expense.
The clampdown will benefit Wantitall, a local website that thrives on
Amazon's wariness. Wantitall collates orders for all type of goods and
orders them from Amazon, but has them delivered to a warehouse in the
US. They are then repacked and sent in bulk via courier to SA.
Amazon's action is bad for consumers but good news for Wantitall, said
its founder Justin Drennan. ÂBecause of the fraud, they have stopped
shipping via the standard postal service. Everything is being stolen
at the Post Office, he said.
Drennan said Amazon deliveries were easily targeted because of their
distinctive packaging. ÂAsk how many people have had stuff stolen from
Amazon and it's massive. Amazon was reshipping things at its own cost
but it's had enough, he said. ÂPeople were also ordering DVDs and
telling Amazon they hadn't received them. They are saying we are as
crooked as they thought we were.Â
Wantitall mainly handles the high-priced items that Amazon does not
deliver to SA.
No one from the P ost O ffice would comment yesterday. Its executives
have been trying to clean up its image by improving systems, and
reported a 69% reduction in theft last year.
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| Re: Kyk wat doen die apartheidsvarke nou! [boodskap #117656 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #117645] |
Wo., 18 Junie 2008 12:43  |
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Word posstukke rerig gesteel? Of is dit net 'n persepsie - soos Thabo
Mbeki se misdaad in SA is?
Ek het gou vinnig gekyk na reaksies. Hier is reaksies op Mail &
Guardian (bekende apartheidsvarke):
Maar hulle lieg seker, jy weet mos hoe apartheidsvarke is.
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1. This year alone, I have had Five (5) bank cards stolen in the SA
mail.
And every birthday card envelope for the entire family was opened,
obviously checking for cash, POs etc.
Utterly, utterly useless.
Like the people in 'government'.
2. May just have been lost, Prof. Everytime we collect our mailbag we
tip it out on the floor of the post office and sort out all the mail
addressed to other than ourselves that the illiterate chimps have
dumped in our bag (sometimes as much as half the mail), some are not
just other mailbag numbers but whole other post offices
Imagine what happens to all the misdirected mail that goes to mailbags
NOT sorted by caring folk!
3. We are unable to send parcels to my wife's parents in SA as any
parcel is 'lost'. And any envelope with anything bulkier than a letter
also does not get through to them. And that is the case at two
different post offices in recent years.
The strange thing is that this was not the case until about four or
five or so years ago (I am guessing a bit here). Prior to that
everything sent was received by my in-laws. Then suddenly, bang, it
changed.
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| Re: Kyk wat doen die apartheidsvarke nou! [boodskap #117668 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #117664] |
Do., 19 Junie 2008 00:43 |
Jim Again
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Aaaaag jy lieg, ou Hessie-Pisflessie !
Jy weet nét so goed dat dit jou geliefde boggom-
wederhelftes se dierlike, primitiewe en barbaarse
"slope head" -instink is ...wat veroorsaak dat die
meerderheid van hulle daai vuiste vol pampoenpit-
te vasklamp, terwyl hy met beide pampoene on-
der die arms deur die draad wil klim.
Die goed steel en teel vir 'n vale.
En dan het hulle boonop nie 'n greintjie aanvoeling
vir verantwoordelikheid nie, naamlik om verantwoor-
delikheid te (kan) aanvaar vir die dade wat hy pleeg
nie. Outomatiese ontkennig (denial) is in hulle bob-
bejaniese gene ingebou. Die Afrika-aapgeslag sal
botweg weier om te erken dat hy/sy gesteel het. -
klokslag en keer-op-keer. Amen.
Jy kan hom uit die bos uithaal, maar die bos dié
kry jy nie uit hom nie...
Jim
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