Your update on page three of Fourways Review, Lobby units for Bryanston mail, week ending 15 January 2016, about the debacle that is Bryanston Post Office was more… nonsense from the South African Post Office, I’m afraid.
Since post effectively stopped for PO Box holders last year, we have been fed a diet of incompetence and incorrect information by… Sapo.
Aside from differing stories as to where post “addressed to Bryanston Post Office” could be collected, which excludes mail for the post boxes that surely get the vast bulk of it, the most recent reported statement by Sapo spokesperson Khulani Qoma is totally incorrect.
I spent a considerable amount of time before I managed to locate the Randburg Post Office, as instructed by Sapo in your report, and it is now Randburg Square and not Sanlam, another inaccuracy.
Furthermore, all Randburg Post Office knew was that post can be collected at Olivedale; that is, post sent to the Bryanston centre, but not that addressed to any post box.
As I later learned from a Sapo person with whom I had been corresponding, post box mail can now be collected between 9am-3pm… at Sloane Square, which is the new site of the Bryanston post office. This is a temporary measure until the post boxes can be relocated, and mail is being replenished daily.
