The South African Post Office has licenced a digital mail offering, RiposteTrEx, from Escher Group.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
Through the platform, the SA Post Office will be able provide e-registered mail services to the country\u2019s more than 51 million citizens, delivered directly to digital devices.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“RiposteTrEx will allow South African Post users including, citizens, government, business and SME\u2019s to send e-registered and confidential mail to secure digital mailboxes, or as registered hybrid letters,” the group said.<\/p>\n
Sapo and e-tolls<\/strong><\/p>\n Sapo recently expressed confidence that it would be able to deal with an influx of Gauteng e-toll bills.<\/p>\n \u201cEven 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,\u201d Newyear Ntuli, group head of e-business at Sapo told Beeld newspaper.<\/p>\n 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 However, on Monday (2 November) Post Office employees from Cosatu-affiliated Communications Workers\u2019 Union embarked on a go-slow in a labour dispute that would affect e-tolls.<\/p>\n \u201cThey 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,\u201d CWU Gauteng secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said.<\/p>\n Workers would conduct a stay-away on December 24 and January 2.<\/p>\n Post Office can cope with e-toll bills: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Carrim\u2019s Post Office application denied<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Pule in trouble over Post Office deadline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on the SA Post Office<\/h3>\n