The Postal Services Department yesterday upgraded its fast ‘Speed Mail’ service with super fast mail service it called ‘Mail Gagas’ or ‘Rush Mail’ that delivers mail to any place within the Brunei-Muara area in under three hours.
The 10-year-old ‘Speed Mail’ that delivers mail within 24 hours is no longer considered as fast at this time and could not meet the need of certain sectors of the community.
The Brunei Postal Services Department is facing a bleak future due to stiff competition from the increasing use of email and short messaging service. The use of postal services is expected to drop in the years to come as fewer people send mail the conventional way.
Read MoreA 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.
Postal services is not a dying industry despite the severe decline
in traditional mail services caused by the Internet and recent
emergence of SMS service, a high-level meeting of Asean postal
service providers was told yesterday.
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