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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: Mail in SA
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 06:56:29 +0200
In-Reply-To: <004e01c0bd34$a560afa0$4bc3a7cb@computer>


On 5 Apr 01, at 6:14, Doug & Pat Frykberg wrote:

> >They arrived in the Grahamstown
> >Post Office about six pm and THEN the mail was sorted and
> >packed ready for the train to take it to Port Elizabeth that
> >night. If the horse was running late, a messenger from the
> >Post Office in Grahamstown would cycle down Woest Hill
> >to collect the mail bags and then pedal uphill, back to the
> >Post Office to get the mail onto the train in time.
> >The mail was delivered to street addresses in PE
> >the next morning.
> >I think there is a distinct lack of such dedication to duty
> >in the staff today!

Stop the rot - renationalise Telkom and the Post Office NOW!

Privatisation seems to have had the effect of making comunications less
efficient and more expensive, not only in RSA, but also in other parts of the
world. Technological improvements have offset that to some extent (like e-
mail).

But this is really getting off the subject of genealogy!

Keep well,

Steve Hayes
E-mail:
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm

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