Mail Service reopens defunct boxes
UNIVERSAL MAIL is moving toward placing its own unique stamp on defunct National Mail boxes in Wellington.
Universal Mail has been licensed by failed former postal operator National Mail to use its postboxes for overseas mail.
National Mail’s former managing director Paul Meier, who runs the new company, said between 50 and 60 of National Mail’s 276 blue boxes in Wellington had been reopened.
The new service is aimed at supplying the tourist market with matching stamps and postcards of well-known New Zealand scenes for postage overseas.
It also offers New Zealand companies corporatised postcards and stamps.
It offered very strong advantages from a tourist point of view, Mr Meier said.
Both self-promotional company stamps aimed at businesses with a high volume of overseas correspondence and retail stamps aimed at the tourist market were readily identifiable with New Zealand, he said.
He expected more of the city’s post boxes would be converted for Universal Mail use, and the company was analysing which redundant ones would be removed.
