Author: Ian Taylor

Singapore Post has unveiled plans to invest some S$50-70 million (roughly €30-45 million) in its infrastructure, technology and people to continue its business diversification strategy.

Lyme Regis Post Office will be modernised in a £1.34 billion national investment scheme, and is also looking for a new subpostmaster.

Japan’s postal system has been reorganised with the aim of improving services. The shake-up came as a revised postal privatisation law took effect Monday. Japan Post Holdings President Jiro Saito celebrated the occasion at Tokyo’s Central Post Office.

In his annual message, UPU Director General Edouard Dayan says postal services are not standing idly on the sidelines as they evolve and play their role in an era of new information and communication technologies, mobile telephones and the Internet. “Posts are an integral part of the increasingly digital world.”

The federal government is done playing post office.Uncle Sam is considering serious steps to stop the financial bleeding by the U.S. Postal Service.

Following on from all the excitement that this year’s Olympics brought, I’ve been thinking about stamps and how they inform or remind us about significant events, famous people, our cultural heritage and what’s currently happening around the world. It made me realise how, through their stamp programmes, Posts continue to provide a significant role in helping us connect, support and celebrate. We have not, as yet, seen a move away from stamps. They remain an important part of the product portfolio for Posts, as a method to enable communication, a source of information and provide a value more than purely financial.