LETTER: Icasa adheres to postal law
Statement that Icasa is backing the SA Post Office in delivery push is wrong as its mandate is to implement what the law requires
In terms of schedule 2 (a) of the Postal Services Act, unreserved postal services include all letters, postcards, printed matter, small parcels and any other postal articles that fall outside the ambit of the reserved postal services set out in schedule 1, up to and including 30kg.
Even though we understand the context of the headline on your article (“Icasa backs post office’s push to limit parcel deliveries by couriers (../../../national/2021-05-04-icasa-backs-post-offices-push-to-limit-parcel-deliveries-by-couriers/)”, May 4), which was probably based on the fact that the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has filed papers to defend its decision, the statement that Icasa is backing the SA Post Office (Sapo) to stop private courier companies from delivering small parcels is incorrect, because the law in terms of schedule 1 is clear that letters and parcels between zero and 1kg are reserved for Sapo, while unreserved postal services can deliver parcels from 1k...
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