Survey from bidorbuy shows last year’s postal strike had negative results for many online retailers, with some buyers deciding not to purchase at all THE prolonged postal strike last year negatively affected 63% of sellers on South Africa’s largest online marketplace‚ according to the 2015 bidorbuy shipping survey results."Hardest hit were the small business owners‚ who find it difficult to compete with larger retailers and are concerned that the uncertainty of reliable delivery spells disaster for their online businesses‚" bidorbuy said in a statement.Of 1‚137 sellers who took part‚ 66.5% sell regularly on the South African online marketplace‚ while 33.5% sell from time to time. Sellers on bidorbuy range from small one-man businesses through to large retailers.The sellers who were affected by last year’s strike estimate their losses at between 20% and 70%."I panicked‚ because my parcels were already in the mail when the strike broke out," says one seller. Hours were devoted‚ mostly...
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