Post Office blacklisting confirmed
Internet retailer Amazon.com has confirmed that it will not use the South African Post Office for door-to-door deliveries, citing the need for the postal utility to improve its customer services.
In an interview via e-mail, Patty Smith, director of corporate communications for Amazon.com, diplomatically confirmed that a decision had been taken to change postal options, and this commenced on June 12.
Smith would not elaborate on why the SAPO’s customer services needed improving.
On Sunday, the Sunday Tribune made damning claims that the country’s postal service is the only one in Africa to have been blacklisted because of the large number of items that have gone missing, presumed stolen.
