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Postal services: providing local access to international markets

Speaking yesterday at the World Trade Organization’s “Aid for Trade” conference in Geneva, the UPU Director General called attention to postal services’ role in stimulating international trade, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Edouard Dayan cited as an example the Brazilian Post’s successful “Exporta Fácil” (“Easy Exporting”) project, felt to be among the most innovative international trade initiatives. Using Exporta Fácil, available at over 8,000 post offices as well as on the Internet, small and medium-sized Brazilian businesses let the postal operator take care of their exports, handling the entire logistics side, as well as completing customs export formalities. “Using this service, 6,000 businesses that had never exported before were able to access external markets in 2006,” said Dayan. “This is a concrete indicator of the postal network’s impact on a developing country’s ability to engage in world trade.” With over 660,000 post offices in 191 countries, mostly located in outlying areas, the postal sector is the world’s biggest physical distribution network. By revitalizing the trade infrastructure, it can help small and medium-sized businesses take advantage of the globalization of trade. Dayan added that the postal sector, with its physical, electronic and financial capabilities, wished to develop partnerships to help provide greater openness to international trade. The UPU’s regional approach to development and initiatives such as the integrated postal development plans, developed to gain government commitment to the postal sector, are in line with the orientations felt necessary to help developing countries take advantage of worldwide trade.

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World Mail Award winners celebrated

The 2007 World Mail Awards, presented on Monday night at a top London hotel, brought out the very best from postal services around the globe. More than 350 senior executives from the industry gathered to hear yachtsman, hero & adventurer, Pete Goss, present the coveted trophies for best practice and excellence.

This was the 8th year the Awards have been run by Triangle and they continue to grow in both prestige and breadth of coverage, with two new awards and four new sponsors for 2007. The distinguished panel of judges met only hours before the presentation to select the eventual winners of the awards from the 38 finalists.

The twelve winners competed against a broad geographical diversity of applicants and a wide variety of products and services submitted by operators and suppliers to the mail industry.

This year’s World Mail Award winners are as follows:

• Corporate Social Responsibility (sponsored by DHL Global Mail)
– Brazil Post for its Postal Bank project

• Customer Service (sponsored by Western Union)
– Canada Post Corporation for its Customer Value Management program

• e-Commerce (sponsored by Saudi Post)
– Deutsche Post AG for its ADDRESSDIALOG project

• Growth (sponsored by Q-Post)
– DHL Global Mail for its global letter-writing club LetterNet

• Industry Leadership (sponsored by Pitney Bowes)
– Jean-Paul Bailly, Chairman and CEO, La Poste

• Innovation (sponsored by Emirates Post)
– ampm for its delivery tracking solution eyeTrack

• People Management (sponsored by Australia Post)
– Masterlink Express for its ”Talents Maker” management academy training program

• Quality (sponsored by Magyar Posta)
– Singapore Post for SingPost Quality Excellence

• Retail Project (sponsored by Triangle)
– Aramex International for its SHOP&SHIP mailbox system

• Security (sponsored by Royal Mail)
– Royal Mail for its Mail Integrity Programme

• Technology (sponsored by Intermec)
– Denmark Post for its GIS route planning system

• Transformation (sponsored by IBM)
– Saudi Post for the creation of NAQEL

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Brazil looks into postal service bribery

Despite stiff government opposition, Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday opened a broad investigation of corruption in the country’s postal service. Allies of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tried to block the probe, fearing it would stall Congressional votes on tax plans and other economic bills. The government has until midnight Wednesday to persuade lawmakers to withdraw their votes in favor of the probe. The investigation was sparked by revelations in the news weekly Veja that two businessmen, using a hidden camera, filmed themselves paying a 3,000 real (USD 1,240) cash bribe to Mauricio Marinho, head of the postal service’s department of contracts and administration.

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