Courier operators remain in legal limbo over the delivery of parcels weighing less than 1kg, despite gazetted changes intended to remove small parcels from the South African Post Offices reserved postal services.
The issue was raised at the monthly Transport Forum hosted by the South African Express Parcel Association SAEPA, where SAEPA CEO Garry Marshall said litigation around the interpretation of the Postal Services Act had now dragged on for almost a decade.
It has been eight years, and it still has not been withdrawn. In fact, the business rescue practitioners at the Post Office are pushing to have those people that they say have been operating illegally in the past prosecuted, he said.
