New service in Central & Latin America post offices

Spanish Government supports money transfer for migrant workers. New service in Central & Latin America post offices.

UNI Post & Logistics were invited to attend a meeting that the Spanish Government hosted to promote the better use of the money transfer system being developed by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to help migrant workers to make fast transfers of money back to their families using the Post Office network. UNI Post & Logistics has been supported this UPU initiative and were very pleased to be able to attend the meeting and support the expansion of this network into all of Central and Latin America.

The meeting, jointly hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Development, the UPU and the Regional UPU body for Latin America, UPAEP, was attended by representatives of postal administrations from 18 Central and Latin American countries, the Organisation of American States, the Spanish Post Office and observers from La Poste.

Opening the meeting, the Vice Minister for Post José Maria Ramirez Lopez, pledged the support of the Spanish Government to ensure that the Spanish Post Office was able to successfully implement the UPU’s IFS system in Central and Latin America. Sixto Heredia Herrera, President of the Spanish Post Office, said his company was committed to making the system widely available and connected to as many countries in the region as possible.

At the meeting the Uruguay and Costa Rica governments signed a bilateral agreement to join the IFS system so money could be easily transferred by workers between those two countries. Already they are both part of the IFS network with Spain. The UNI delegation witnessed this first hand when they visited a local post office near the meeting venue in Central Madrid and saw a notice advertising the service to the local community.