Let me have my ten cents worth about the apparent pending collapse of the South African Post Office. How can this be?
Each dorp had a post office perhaps with a staff of two, but the post office was there. Before banks opened a branch or an agency in a small town, you would be sure there was a post office.
This seemingly meek and mild institution, without fanfare and drumrolls, kept our nation connected. The arrival of the mail in the post box was an event and what good or bad news was contained in the telegram envelope? The post office also provided a safe repository for your money with each deposit or withdrawal being carefully noted in the post office savings account book.
It is such a crying shame for this public service instrument, through maladministration, to have to close! Batho Pele indeed has failed on this occasion as it has done so many times before. What public service institution will be next – public toilets, due to no water and no bog roll?
TREVOR BARNES
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