Pakistan Post revenues grow
Revenue at Pakistan Post rose about 25% during 2008-9.
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Prime minister urges Pakistan Post to improve
Prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has told Pakistan’s postal service to provide speedy, efficient and better services to the country’s population.
Read MorePakistan Post to be modernized
Minister for Postal Services Mir Israrullah Zehri said that Pakistan Post would be modernized and upgraded throughout the country.
Read MorePakistan Post increases services’ commission
After hike in oil and power tariff, the state-run postal service ‘Pakistan Post’ has increased commission for its various services across the country to meet expenses and announced new rates to be affective from 18 March, it is learnt.
The new increased rates will effect twenty million customers, especially in rural areas of Pakistan where Pakistan Post is the only courier service.
The new charges of Fax Money Order for an amount of up to twenty-five thousand have been increased to Rs 150 from Rs 100. Pakistan Post has also fixed the FMO charges of Rs 300 for the delivery of more than Rs 25,000. The charges of urgent Money Order (local) would be Rs 65 while the city-to-city charges would be Rs 80. Similarly, the charges of normal Money Order have been fixed at Rs 55.
The new rate of local urgent mail service, up to the weight of half kilogram has been fixed at Rs 15 and the rate of urgent mail service city to city are fixed at Rs 30. Pakistan Post Office is one of the oldest government departments in the Sub-Continent. staff report
Read MorePakistan Post receives over 1,000 letters for contest
The Pakistan Post has received over 1,000 letters for “international letter writing contest” and the selection committee will soon finalise the letters to submit it to Universal Postal Union (UPU). Assistant Director International Post Manzoor Hussain Khattak told here on Monday that the international letters writing contest titled `Why tolerance and forbearance is compulsory for our world” will be held this year in Switzerland. He said that the main objective of the contest is to draw the attention of new generation towards writing letters.
The children with 15 years of age or less are eligible to participate in the contest and first three position holders in the country would get Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 cash prizes respectively. The participants have written the letters in Urdu and English languages and the selected letters from Pakistan will be sent to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The selected letters must reach the UPU International Bureau before April 30.
He said the first three position holders would receive gold, silver, and copper medals and UPU post tickets albums. Complete letters of the participants having name, father’s name, age, class, picture, complete name of institute, address and telephone number, if any will be entertained, he added.
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