Saudi Post teams with RPost to launch registered email service
Saudi Post is launching a new registered email service using cloud-based technology from US company RPost. The state owned postal service in Saudi Arabia announced at the World Mail and Express Europe conference in Geneva this week that the RPost Cloud platform would form a central component of its electronic service modernisation plan.
It will offer customers secure electronic messaging services with email tracking, proof of delivery, encryption and legal electronic signatures.
The partnership will see RPost services offered to customers in Saudi Arabia branced as Saudi Post Registered Email, while an Arabic version of the service will be available later this year.
Mohammed Al Abduljabbar, the vice president of investment and marketing at Saudi Post, said his company believed its partnership with RPost would modernise the way business is done “not only in Saudi Arabia, but in the entire Arabic world”.
“Many of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have passed liberal electronic transactions laws, and now we bring to local and global companies, the tools that comfortably meet the legal standards permitted by these laws,” he said.
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RPost said its Cloud platform meant registered email recipients do not need to sign up or install either software or hardware, but receive email messages as normal, albeit with extra privacy, security and documentation proof. It means users can send registered email to anyone with a valid email address.
The services are particularly designed for industries like the finance, insurance, legal, real estate, telecommunications and manufacturing sectors, where legal documents and secure messages need to be sent quickly.
Saudi Post will offer limited use of the Registered Email services to individuals free of charge, and premium services for businesses and government bodies with fees levied either per user or per message.
The Los Angeles-based company said customers were now using Rpost services in “nearly every country”, and that the Saudi Post branded service would be consistent with the service seen around the world.
“Our global customers can comfortably use our technology with the Saudi Post brand knowing that the underlying technology architecture, standards, and user experience will be uniform worldwide,” said Zafar Khan, the RPost chief executive.
“We welcome Saudi local business to the RPost technology to capitalise on the efficiencies our customers have experienced internationally.”