Are Sunwich Port residents expected to go back to pigeon post?
The Herald's story got a reaction and the residents of Sunwich Port got... a bigger mess than ever.
SUNWICH Port residents, up in arms about the state of their postboxes, had their grievances aired by the Herald recently and the reaction was almost instantaneous.
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By the following Friday the old boxes had been ripped from their mountings and thrown onto the grass verge, only to be replaced with another set, which appeared to have been gleaned from some more affluent suburb’s scrap heap.
A bit of undercoat and some new locks went some way to disguising the state of the boxes, but that’s as far as the transformation went. Closer examination revealed severe rusting, especially of the back doors and a good look at the support brackets showed that they, too, appeared to have been cobbled together out of rusty cut-offs.
By Tuesday morning nothing further had happened at the site, except that the old boxes had been removed and – as if to prove that it was unfit for purpose – one of the back doors had fallen off.
Meanwhile… where was the post?
A call to Anerley Post Office on Monday was met with a Telkom message: “The number you have dialled does not exist.”
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Port Shepstone Post Office had no alternative number to offer, so a resident decided to pay a visit to Anerley on Tuesday.
The postmistress assured her that the post was safe. “I have two bags of it here and it will be distributed to the new boxes tomorrow,” she said.
“Box holders can collect their new keys here from Wednesday – at, least, that’s what they say,” she added. Her voice was bright and cheerful, but her body language suggested that she was not so sure that ‘they’ were going to keep their promise.
By the time of going to press nothing further had happened and the residents of Sunwich Port are not holding their breath.
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