SkyPostal Networks awarded La Poste contract
SkyPostal Networks has been awarded a $2m contract to deliver mail originated by La Poste. Mail originating from France, the UK, and La Poste’s Office of Exchange in the United States will be transported and delivered by SkyPostal into Latin America and Caribbean (LAC).
With the advent of EU mandated postal liberalisation in Europe, SkyPostal in 2004 identified the need of the European National Postal operators to improve their mail delivery service into LAC.
The Universal Postal Union’s network in the region offered no integrated technology and could not meet the service and pricing needs demanded by a liberalised and competitive cross border postal market.
For several years the delivery of domestic commercial mail in most of the countries in LAC is principally handled by private postal operators who pay their messengers by the delivery and thus achieve good levels of service, control and efficiencies with track and trace technology.
Today, over 6,000 private postal operators deliver up to 90% of the domestic commercial mail in some countries.
SkyPostal organised the large private postal services in each country into a regional mail delivery network connected by its PosTrac mail tracking system and today delivers mail for several European posts and for European and US mail consolidators.
