SA Post Office goes digital
The South African Post Office has licenced a digital mail offering, RiposteTrEx, from Escher Group.
Escher, a provider of outsourced, point of sale software to the postal industry, said that the South African Post Office has selected its RiposteTrEx platform to deliver its e-registered mail services, following a “rigorous tender process”.
Through the platform, the SA Post Office will be able provide e-registered mail services to the country’s more than 51 million citizens, delivered directly to digital devices.
The platform’s services allow for e-registered mail to be sent in parallel to physical registered mail (“hybrid” mail) as well as for transactions and payments to take place, digitally.
“RiposteTrEx will allow South African Post users including, citizens, government, business and SME’s to send e-registered and confidential mail to secure digital mailboxes, or as registered hybrid letters,” the group said.
Sapo and e-tolls
Sapo recently expressed confidence that it would be able to deal with an influx of Gauteng e-toll bills.
“Even if one million motorists decided to use the highways without etags every day, and we received one million e-toll bills per day, our systems would be able to handle it,” Newyear Ntuli, group head of e-business at Sapo told Beeld newspaper.
Road users without an e-toll account, or a day pass, have a seven-day grace period to pay from the time he or she passed the gantry. A bill would be sent through the post if the account is not paid within seven days.
However, on Monday (2 November) Post Office employees from Cosatu-affiliated Communications Workers’ Union embarked on a go-slow in a labour dispute that would affect e-tolls.
“They must work extremely slow[ly] when dealing with those Sanral letters. If they have to sort out 100 a day, they should make it one a day,” CWU Gauteng secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said.
Workers would conduct a stay-away on December 24 and January 2.
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