Belgian PostPunten number up to 130 in 2006
Belgian postal service company De Post/La Poste will increase the number of its PostPunten sales counters to some 130 in 2006, the De Staandard daily said on December 15, 2005.
De Post/La Poste plans to install the sales counters in supermarkets, newspaper retail stores, banks and train stations.
The company installed the first string of 14 PostPunten in November 2004. The number was later raised to 46.
In December 2005, De Post/La Poste assessed the performance of the PostPunten counters, and found that the number of satisfied customers had increased by 10 pct, as compared to the time before the counters were installed.
More than 70 pct of the customers considered the PostPunten a good supplement to the post offices. A total 15 pct of the customers said they made more transactions via De Post/La Poste than earlier.
The largest part of the new PostPunten will be opened in the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish and Walloon Brabant and Namur. Parallel to the installation of the PostPunten, some post offices will be merged, so the total number of sales points will remain at some 1,300.
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