BotswanaPost running home mail box delivery project
BotswanaPost is running a pilot project that will offer deliveries to physical mail boxes outside customers’ houses instead of postal addresses. Tebogo Disele, BotswanaPost’s communications manager, was quoted by Mmegionline as saying: “Our customers will not have to get out of their way to go to their postboxes to receive mail. It also assures that their mail will be received within reasonable timeframes without sitting in postboxes for lengths of time until the recipient picks it.”
The Mmegionline report added that BotswanaPost is looking to take advantage of the Ministry of Lands and Housing’s drive to put up street names and locators in order to pilot the home mail delivery service.
Disele told Post&Parcel today (5 February) that the pilot project will run for about a year and will be taking place in the city of Gaborone and will involve setting up mail boxes for about 6,000 homes.
BotswanaPost will then look to roll out the home delivery service on a national basis, but it will do so through a gradual, phased approach. The postal operator has already conducted a pilot project at a village level; the pilot in Gaborone will be the first test of the new service in an urban environment.
