Tunisian postal workers strike over staff shortage
Tunisian postal workers have been on a two-day strike to draw attention to their concerns about understaffing and improvements needed in the postal service.
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Arab postal organisations take part in workshop
Twenty-two Arab postal organisations took part in a workshop to familiarise themselves with the International Financial System (IFS), a low-cost post-to-post money transfer system, which is backed by the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
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Read MoreUPU philately workshop reviews new concepts
The need for involving the youth in philatelic activities and adopting new technology for producing stamps were among the topics highlighted at a four-day UPU workshop on philately hosted by Emirates Post at the Emirates Post Training &Development Centre.
The workshop, in which 19 countries from the Arab Permanent Postal Commission (APPC) took part, introduced the participants to new trends in philately. Experts from the UPU, La Poste, Tunisia Post and the Slovak Post were among those who made presentations.
At a concluding ceremony, Mr. Mohamed Bahlul, Director of Philately, Tunisia, said the first UPU level workshop on philately in the region threw light on a host of important philatelic issues and this will help regional philatelic organizations to raise their standards.
Mr. Louis Virgile, Cultural and Commercial Director, La Poste, France, who presented a paper on personalized stamps, said the participants showed good knowledge of philatelic topics and stressed that more such workshops need to be conducted in the Middle East and Africa region to boost philately.
Read MoreTunisia: 153 new post offices to open soon
According to Al-Horria newspaper (August 29, 2005), to avoid long lines in the posts offices in Tunisia during the beginning of the new academic year, the Tunisian Post Office announced opening 153 new post offices all over the Tunisian districts on September 1st, 2005. The new offices will operate from 8:00 o’clock in the morning until 18:00 o’clock in the evening in order to satisfy all residents’ needs for postal and financial transactions.
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