Ethiopian Postal Service Agency Launches New Services

The Ethiopian Postal Service Agency said it had launched new services and installed additional post boxes during the just-ended budget year.

The Agency had earned 8.8 million birr gross profit from various activities undertaken during the reported period.

Public Relations Service and Corporate Planning Department heads with the Agency, Eshetu Geletu and Seid Kedir respectively told ENA that the Agency has been introducing newly launched services to the public.

They said the Agency has been providing money transfer services through fax messages at 14 stations set up in Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Jimma, Asella, Dessie, Semera, Debre Markos, Gondar, Mettu, Gambella, Assossa, Arba Minch, Robe Bale and Hossaena towns.

The Agency has also begun selling mobile and voucher cards at 11 post offices in Addis Ababa city.

Some 41 Emergency Message Service (EMS) stations enabling to transmit messages through the Internet have been opened in the country, they said.

The Agency secured the profit from money transfer and Emergency Message Service (EMS), among others.

They said 13,210 additional private post boxes had been installed in the just ended budget year.

They said the Agency had fully achieved the plan to install 250 mobile post boxes at 10 places in Addis Ababa City.

The officials said there are over 139,000 post boxes at 887 service-rendering stations in the country including the newly installed ones during the just-ended budget year.

They said the Agency has been providing efficient services to the public as compared to the services during the past years.

The Agency had carried out various activities with a view to expanding its service through branch offices existing across the country, the officials said.

The Agency was established in 1886 E.C.