Taiwan Post Office offers parcel pickup service
The Directorate General of Posts (DGP) has decided to extend its services to parcel pickup in addition to deliveries, in the face of increasing competition from private mail and parcel service companies, a DGP spokesman said Thursday.
The spokesman said that state-run post offices, especially those in urban areas, have lost business to private companies, despite shortened inner city delivery times of four hours and that inter-city delivery times to six hours.While international express companies such as UPS and FedEx are doing well in Taiwan’s market, newly established domestic express service firms, including the Taiwan Pelican Express, with its convoy of 470 vans and hundreds of motorcycles, are posing a serious threat to the Post Office.
The spokesman said that the Post Office hopes to exploit its advantages of an islandwide network — with post offices even in remote mountainous and coastal regions.
From Aug. 1, Post Office is offering a door-to-door parcel service for parcels weighing no more than 20 kilograms.
