Thai airport occupation leaves mail stranded

The seizure of Bangkok’s two airports has stranded more than 100,000 pieces of inbound and outbound mail and parcels.

The seizure of Bangkok’s two airports has stranded more than 100,000 pieces of inbound and outbound mail and parcels.

Normally the state postal service handled 30,000 to 50,000 pieces daily, including 4,000 EMS parcels but the airport closure has disrupted its work.After shifting air transport service to U-tapao, Thailand Post was able to clear almost half of the stranded items over the past two days, particularly parcels containing perishable goods, said Mr Anusara.
The occupation of the airports by protesters has also raised operating costs because Thailand Post now uses land transport for stranded mail, notably domestic EMS packages.

Thailand Post last week put off the Nov 28 launch of its ”EMS World” campaign, which was intended to inform individual and corporate customers about its ability to expedite mail domestically and internationally through connections with global postal services.

Thailand Post has 1,200 delivery locations nationwide and a call centre at 1545. It is allied with DHL and UPS.

During the past 10 months, it earned 12 billion baht in revenues, 20% growth from the same period last year. The company does not expect to meet its sales target of 16 billion baht because of the airport closures and the global recession.

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