Korea Post (KP), the postal service arm of the Ministry of Information and Communication, said yesterday it will build a mobile mail service system by 2004 on a gradual basis. Under the plan, the government will supply personal digital assistants for around 14,000 mailpersons over the next three years,
said KP official Kwon Moon-hong. The government’s decision reflected growing fears about the proliferation of the Internet.
The Japanese postal ministry has drawn up a blueprint
which will transfer many powers held by parliament to a public corporation
which will take over postal operations in 2003, a news report said Tuesday.
These powers include closing, merging and opening post offices and buying
and selling property. These currently require the approval of the Diet
(parliament), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said.
United Parcel Service (UPS), the
world’s largest express carrier and package delivery company, headquartered in
the U.S., has announced here that its business in China during the second
quarter of this year had increased by 25 percent from the same period of last
year.
Southern Airlines Group, the parent organization of China Southern Airlines
(www.cs-air.com/en), the largest airline in the People’s Republic of China,
has signed an extensive, multi-faceted business agreement with China Post
Airlines — the first of its kind between a Chinese airlines group and the
national postal service.
A seminar to discuss the problems pertaining to the delivery of
letters was held at the Ministry of Development yesterday. The problems pertaining to the delivery of letters have been a thorn
in the side of the Postal Services Department in Brunei for some
time now. Complaints have come in via telephone calls and the media.
Individuals have also lodged complaints at the post office.
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