{"id":50162,"date":"2013-11-28T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50162"},"modified":"2013-11-28T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:47:10","slug":"post-office-can-cope-with-e-toll-bills-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/50162\/post-office-can-cope-with-e-toll-bills-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office can cope with e-toll bills: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office (Sapo) has expressed confidence that it would be able to deal with an influx of Gauteng e-toll bills, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; said Newyear Ntuli, group head of e-business at Sapo.<\/p>\n<p>He said the SA Post Office already handled an average of 450,000 traffic-related post per month.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters announced that e-tolling in Gauteng would begin on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on e-tolls<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to E-toll fines, jail time and criminal records: the truth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/50061\/e-toll-fines-jail-time-and-criminal-records-the-truth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">E-toll fines, jail time and criminal records: the truth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-tolls: pay up or else\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/49982\/e-tolls-pay-up-or-else\/\"><strong>E-tolls: pay up or else<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DA launches new anti-e-toll billboards\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/49826\/da-launches-new-anti-e-toll-billboards\/\"><strong>DA launches new anti-e-toll billboards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-tolls get a start date\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/49737\/e-tolls-get-a-start-date\/\"><strong>E-tolls get a start date<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E-tolls to help fight apartheid legacy?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/49771\/e-tolls-to-help-fight-apartheid-legacy\/\"><strong>E-tolls to help fight apartheid legacy?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DA warns of e-tolls phase 2\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/49676\/da-warns-of-e-tolls-phase-2\/\"><strong>DA warns of e-tolls phase 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SA Post Office (Sapo) has expressed confidence that it would be able to deal with an influx of Gauteng e-toll bills, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1804,3003],"class_list":["post-50162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-e-tolls","tag-post-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50163,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162\/revisions\/50163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}