Quality of Service Fund extended until 2016
UPU Congress Committee 8 (Development Cooperation) decided to extend the lifespan of the Quality of Service Fund (QSF). Initially scheduled to run from 2001 to 2012, the QSF will now continue until 2016. Created by the 1999 Beijing Congress, the QSF finances projects aimed at improving postal service quality in developing countries. All member countries, except least developed countries, contribute to the Fund through an increase in their terminal dues payments.
In its first eight years, the QSF has financed over 400 projects, worth almost 60 million USD. These projects have helped to raise the quality of the postal services of more than 150 beneficiary postal operators, making the QSF an essential plank of the UPU’s development cooperation system.
The Committee also decided that the link between the Fund and terminal dues should be maintained; that QSF projects should continue to focus on the quality of service of beneficiary postal operators, particularly as regards mail flows subject to terminal dues; and that new elections should be held after the 24th Congress for the 9 countries represented on the Board of Trustees, the body that oversees the Fund.
There is general agreement that the QSF has proven its worth. Extending the Fund is fully in step with the World Postal Strategy. One of its objectives is to improve quality and efficiency in the international postal network. As such, the QSF represents a valuable source of funding for activities relating to interoperability, interconnection and integrity of networks, quality of service measurement, mail security and implementation of cost accounting systems.
This new lease of life will allow the QSF to build on the positive results achieved in the first few years of operations.
UPU Congress Committee 8 (Development Cooperation) decided to extend the lifespan of the Quality of Service Fund (QSF). Initially scheduled to run from 2001 to 2012, the QSF will now continue until 2016. Created by the 1999 Beijing Congress, the QSF finances projects aimed at improving postal service quality in developing countries. All member countries, except least developed countries, contribute to the Fund through an increase in their terminal dues payments.
In its first eight years, the QSF has financed over 400 projects, worth almost 60 million USD. These projects have helped to raise the quality of the postal services of more than 150 beneficiary postal operators, making the QSF an essential plank of the UPU’s development cooperation system.
The Committee also decided that the link between the Fund and terminal dues should be maintained; that QSF projects should continue to focus on the quality of service of beneficiary postal operators, particularly as regards mail flows subject to terminal dues; and that new elections should be held after the 24th Congress for the 9 countries represented on the Board of Trustees, the body that oversees the Fund.
There is general agreement that the QSF has proven its worth. Extending the Fund is fully in step with the World Postal Strategy. One of its objectives is to improve quality and efficiency in the international postal network. As such, the QSF represents a valuable source of funding for activities relating to interoperability, interconnection and integrity of networks, quality of service measurement, mail security and implementation of cost accounting systems.
This new lease of life will allow the QSF to build on the positive results achieved in the first few years of operations.
