Township crime means residents have to pay more for many services, or even do without them. Many companies have either turned their backs on residents of crime-ridden townships or make them pay extra.Postnet Cape Town levies a "township fee".Biance-Anne P Moll wrote to the company complaining that she was charged R570 for the couriering of a parcel from Cape Town to Soweto. She said she paid the same price for the delivery of a parcel of the same weight to South Dakota in the United States.Postnet said: "The township surcharge is a security fee for the drivers and vehicles. Just last week one of our trucks was hijacked in a Cape Town township. As soon as the crime situation improves, the surcharge will fall away."The company's communications manager, Graeme Saunders, said: "The township surcharge is not unique to Postnet . all couriers do it."He said the township fee helped compensate the company for time spent looking for a house in a township, which often lacked street names and numbers, "but crime is a factor".Paramedics will not enter dangerous areas without a police escort.Even Mr Delivery treads carefully. CEO Greg Woodridge said the company also had to contend with "no-go" areas in townships...