Tag: Ethiopian Postal Service

Postal Service to Expand in-House Deliveries – Ethopia Post

Posted by | May 15, 2007 | |

The Ethiopian Postal Service (EPS) is preparing to take over out of town mail deliveries by assigning its own vehicles to offer the services to regional and rural branches.

EPS has obtained financial assistance for the purchase of four Mitsubishi Coaster buses that have a 26 passenger capacity from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the United Nations’ (UN) postal service. EPS presented a project document to the UPU on March 22, 2007. The UPU allocated three million Birr for the purchase of the buses and is facilitating their delivery through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Addis Abeba because it does not have an office in the country.

Bezabeh Asfaw, acting head of the Operations Department at EPS, told Fortune that the cost of the buses was not fully covered by UPU.

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Ethiopian Postal Service to Become Corporation

Posted by | Sep 5, 2006 | |

The Ethiopian Postal Service is taking steps towards entering the competitive marketplace. After more than a hundred years of operation this signals a new era for the EPS.

The Ethiopian Postal Service (EPS) has completed a draft proclamation to be presented to the Council of Ministers for approval; the proclamation is to re-establish EPS, founded in 1894, as a Corporation.

According to the Ministry of Transport and Communication (MTC) the draft had been waiting for the results from the Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) undergone by EPS.

To generate new incomes EPS plans to start providing services such as bill collection, paying salaries and pensions to employees of different organisations on a commission basis.

EPS has more than 840 branches throughout the country, with 54 located within Addis Abeba. In the last nine months EPS has collected 27,770 Br from the postal services it provides.

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