Q-Post clarifies role of global body
THE primary mission of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the apex body of postal corporations, is to facilitate methods to ensure international mail exchanges among member countries, said Q-Post chairman and chief executive Ali Mohamed al-Ali.
Al-Ali was clarifying a report that appeared on December 26, which he said, had given way to some misunderstanding and misinterpretation among readers on the UPU’s stance on cutting post office overheads.
“The UPU provides information on possible models that could be adopted in the postal system of each country,” he said in a statement to the Gulf Times.
“It is up to the governments of each member country to decide on the postal model that is most appropriate to the postal requirements of the operator concerned.”
The Q-Post chairman said “the UPU doesn’t favour one model or the other and it is not in a position to instruct its member countries on which postal model should be adopted and which not. Neither did the UPU instruct anyone on how postal operations in a state should be managed, he said.
Gulf Times had said in the report on December 26 that the Q-Post was following the UPU guidelines on cost cutting to facilitate private franchisees at some locations.
