South Africa’s unreliable, slow and theft-prone postal service has provided an opportunity to a company that enables South Africans to buy products from stores located almost anywhere in the world. American and European online stores have refused to sell products to people based in South Africa in recent years because their goods have not reached the shoppers and they have therefore suffered losses. International express, parcel delivery and logistics services company Aramex recently launched its Aramex Global Shopper (AGS) offering. This offering is expected to achieve 57% growth in sales in 2017, according to Mark Mahoney, manager of eCommerce Services. The exponential growth of the AGS online shopping delivery service mirrors the rise of cross-border online shopping in South Africa, driven predominantly by people’s desire for specialised products only available overseas, said Mahoney. "In the past, the international retailer’s inability to ship to South Africa or to ship for exor...
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