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Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act, 2000 (Act No. 13 of 2000)

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Code of Practice for the South African Postal Industry, 2012

4. The Code of Practice

 

(1) Key Commitments

 

All Postal Operators shall:

(a) Treat customers with respect and dignity;
(b) Display utmost courtesy and care when dealing with the aged and disabled persons;
(c) Endeavour to communicate with customers in the language of their choice as far as it is practicable and possible;
(d) Display at their outlets in the public area, information pertaining to customer complaints resolution procedures, including information on insurance policies for lost and or damaged parcels and letters;
(e) Ensure that all complaints received are recorded appropriately and resolved in a courteous, efficient and fair manner;
(f) Ensure that their premises are clean, safe and secure; and
(h) Make customers aware of insurance facilities for lost and or damaged letters or parcels when entering into transactions.

[Numbering as published in the original Government Gazette]

 

(2) Harmful Business Practice

 

Postal Operators shall not engage in the following business practices:

(a) Dishonesty in their dealings with customers;
(b) Unfair pricing;
(c) Misrepresentation of facts in their dealings with customers;
(d) Intentionally damaging the image of another operator, the industry, or customers;
(e) Packaging of the reserved postal services in a misleading way, in order to evade the weight and dimensions restriction so as to make it suit the requirements of the unreserved postal services; and
(f) Conducting business in an area reserved for another postal operator.