Tag: Saudi Post

Saudi residential mailboxes arriving

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Thousands of mailboxes are being installed in residential buildings in different parts of the capital as part of Saudi Post’s novel plan to enable the people to send and receive mail from their own residential buildings without going to the post office. “We are installing 6,000 boxes a day in Riyadh and Jeddah respectively as part of our plan to distribute five million boxes throughout the Kingdom over a two-year period,” Usamah Altaf, vice president of Saudi Post, told Arab News. He said the next phase of the campaign would see similar installation in the Eastern Province in the first quarter of this year.

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Saudi Post ready for the day of the RFID

Posted by | Sep 3, 2005 | |

Saudi Post’s home delivery plans will be underpinned by one of the largest radio frequency identification (RFID) projects in the world, according to sources. The national postal carrier is understood to be planning to install millions of RFID-enabled post-boxes across the Kingdom as part of a USD270million project to support its new home delivery service, Wasel.
The Wasel project, a key step in Saudi Post’s efforts to transform itself prior to privatisation, will eliminate the need for customers to collect mail from post offices, as the postal service will deliver and collect mail from their homes instead.

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Saudi Postal approves 300 percent increase in some of its services fees

Posted by | Aug 1, 2005 | |

The Saudi Postal Service Organization has approved a 300 percent increase in some of its services’ fees, Al-Youm newspaper reported. The mailbox charges increased to SR300 per year for individuals and SR1,000 for private institutions. In the past, customers used to rent a mailbox for SR300 for three years. These new charges will be effective on the first day of the month of Rajab (Aug.7). The new charges will help in reducing the SR200 million deficits of the SPSO and to increase its income.

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Saudi Post chief visits Emirates Post to enhance mutual cooperation in postal matters

Posted by | Dec 12, 2004 | |

Dr. Benten met Mr. Abdullah Al Daboos, Director General of Emirates Post, and held talks on a variety of mutually beneficial issues, with a focus on leveraging Emirates Post’s expertise for upgrading postal services in the Kingdom.

Dr. Benten later met a team of senior Emirates Post officials who briefed him on the ongoing as well as future projects of Emirates Post. Mr. Khaled Shahdoor, Assistant Director General, IT Sector, made a presentation covering the advances made by Emirates Post in various fields, especially in IT by developing the advanced POS systems that interlinks all postal outlets and speeds up transactions.

Dr. Mohamed Saleh ben Taher Benten, Chief of Postal Administration, Saudi Post, visited Emirates Post and discussed ways of expanding cooperation in the field of automation and innovative services in the postal field.

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GCC postal working group discusses impact of UPU's new postal regulations and GATT

Posted by | May 26, 2003 | |

A Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) postal working group, consisting of representatives from the postal authorities of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are meeting in Dubai to discuss issues relating to UPU postal regulations and the impact of GATT on postal services in the region. Chaired by Saudi Arabia and hosted by Emirates Post, the working group began a five-day meeting to review a host of issues pertaining to the streamlining of postal activities in the region, including amendments to the agreement between the UPU and the respective countries.

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