SA Post Office to close EC branches

Four Post Offices at the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality are on the cards of being permanently shut down. this is due to a high volume of crime. All these branches were hit by armed robbers at least four times a year. The recent attack occurred this past Saturday in Sidwell.

According to police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg two suspects entered the post office in Commercial Road, Sidwell, at about 11 am on Saturday, armed with firearms.

’’Four staff members and one customer were forced into the safe of the post office and locked inside, while the two suspects fled with an undisclosed amount of cash,’’ Janse van Rensburg said.

After the four staff members and a customer were freed from the safe, they were taken to hospital for medical treatment ’’due to being suffocated inside the safe’’, Janse van Rensburg said.

At the beginning of the month, four suspects robbed the post office in Thornhill. After one of the suspects disarmed the guard, three armed men entered the premises.

They pistol-whipped the manager, opening a wound on her head, before stealing her handbag and an undisclosed amount of cash.

No arrests have been made, police are still investigating