DHL Express and Puma Energy are running a pilot programme in Tanzania, through which customers can send documents and parcels at 15 service stations in Dar es Salaam.
Read MoreTanzania Posts Corporation (TPC) has introduced a system whereby letters and parcels are now delivered at addressees’ residences. Known as ‘physical addressing and postal system,’ the new method is expected to ease the exercise of handling mails.
Read MoreTanzania postal services can be improved more if modern means of communication are applied, Postmaster General Deos Mndeme has said.
Speaking during the anniversary of the World Post Day, Mr Mndeme said that Tanzania Posts Corporation revenue has been rising and its current level is Sh. 20 billion.
Letters sent through the post office inside and outside the country reach 26 million yearly and that the number was rising yearly, he said.
“Post Office services are still needed in Tanzania although there is great competition from more recent means of communication.
The government needs to establish the use of mobile phones in the Post Office in order to widen those services,” he further noted. The government is on the process of buying out Post Office debts so that the corporation loses weight and resumes a competitive conduct of service provision.
Presenting his speech on behalf of Deputy Minister for Communication, Science and Technology Dr Maua Daftari, the Permanent Secretary Dr Naomi Katunzi said that currently the postal network of Public Postal Operator consists 400 postal outlets.
Read MorePAN African Postal Union (Papu) has urged postal service providers to concentrate on developing more operations in rural areas on the continent where there is little or no availability of advanced communication.
The appeal was made yesterday in Blantyre by Papu’s Assistant Secretary General Rhoda Masaviru during the official opening of the fourth African Support Committee to the organisation of the congress of Universal Postal Union (UPU) to be held in Kenya in 2008.
Masaviru said the success of the congress in Nairobi would depend on the strategies to be adopted on the current challenges that range from revenue, terminal dues to mail dispatch.
In her opening remarks Minister of Information Patricia Kaliati urged all participating countries to ensure that the agenda of the UPU congress reflects training for postal personnel including maximizing access to rural masses.
She added that the current meeting must come up with factual and practical objectives ahead of the meeting in Kenya that should see Africa making progress in the sector for the next four years after 2008.
Over 30 African countries that include Ghana, Nigeria Tanzania, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe are attending the meeting in Blantyre which is expected to wind up today.
Read MoreEmployees at TNT have delivered a cash boost to feed and educate 1200 malnourished children in Tanzania for a year.
Entitled ‘Fight Hunger Week,’ the initiative saw thousands of TNT employees in the UK hold a fun-packed range of activities to raise more than GBP 30,000 for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).
The money raised by TNT will be channelled into the WFP’s School Feeding Programme whereby children in developing countries are encouraged to attend school and receive a free nourishing meal. All the donations from TNT Express Services in the UK & Ireland will go to provide much-needed nutrition and education for youngsters in Tanzania.
Stuart Stobie, Divisional Managing Director, TNT Express Services UK said: “It costs just 7p per day to feed and educate a child in Tanzania or GBP 25 a year. The initiative is part of an ongoing partnership that has already seen TNT in the UK generate more than GBP 260,000 to support the excellent work undertaken by the WFP.”
More than 50 TNT Express Services depots and offices combined their efforts as part of the specially designated week with a bewildering array of fund-raising activities from fancy dress days, chest waxings, depot beauty salons, health checks, running and rowing challenges, cake baking, noodle-eating, managers in stocks, auctions, raffles and car valeting, to name but a few.
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