Tag: Botswana

BotswanaPost is negotiating with government to allow it to borrow funds from the open market to augment home grown funds available for its transformation initiative.

Alternatively, the government shall be lobbied for equity injection, says the corporations 2005-06 annual report.

The report states that BotswanaPost is committed to delivering cost-effective, reliable and efficient services to its customers.

Its primary responsibility is to provide a universal postal services to all residents of Botswana.

BotswanaPost has a postal network of 114 post offices and 78 postal agencies countrywide divided into three regions namely Central, North, and South.

The report says the 78 postal agencies are run by village development committees with the assistance of BotswanaPost.

It says Botswana Couriers, a wholly owned subsidiary of BotswanaPost, provides courier delivery services throughout the country.

Services of the BotswanaPost include postal services, business solutions, money transfer services, courier services, stamp collecting and agency services on behalf of the private sector, government and parastatals.

On business mail service, the report says, in an effort to assist the expediting of mail processes from the source, business customers are now offered the use of Remote Meter Setting (RMS) services, an improvement on the traditional franking machine.

The President of the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) Igbal Ebrahim, has advised Botswana Post to improve on their customer service or else they will not survive in the competitive market.

Ebrahim was speaking at the official launch of the Blue Jacket Square Business and Communication Centre on-behalf of the Minister of Communication, Science and Technology Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi.

Botswana Post recently opened a similar Business Centre in Ncojane, and two in Gaborone offering traditional postal services such as stamps, money and postal orders, letter and parcel mail in addition to Internet or email, photocopying, printing, scanning, laminating, typing and binding services.

In the speech, which Ebrahim read on behalf of Venson-Moitoi, she noted that in the 1800’s Francistown attracted mining companies due to the existence of gold, nickel and other minerals and mining still plays an important role in the city’s economy.