Doorstep deliveries in Tanzania
Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC) has launched a doorstep delivery service in parts of Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Dodoma.
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Posta to deliver letters at door posts
Tanzania 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 MorePostal services 'suffer technology gap'
Tanzania 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 MoreAfrican postal administrations urged to embrace new strategies to survive
African postal administrations have been urged to embrace new strategies to make post offices autonomous and profitable.
Tanzania’s minister of Labour, Employment and Youth, John Chiligati, told delegates attending the ILO/UPU tripartite seminar on Social Dialogue in the Postal Sector from 27-29 November in Bagamoyo, Tanzania that postal administrations should adopt new technological changes to sustain jobs.
“Technological changes can sustain and offer new job opportunities if the workers are trained in information technology; otherwise technological advancements will become a serious threat to workers,” he said.
“The challenge now is to train traditional postal workers in modern electronic postal services. The survival of the postal industry in our region will depend on how the human resource is trained, motivated and participating in social dialogue,”
The minister said that social dialogue was an important feature of modern labour relations and called for the involvement of workers in structural and technological changes being implemented in the postal sector in the region.
And Universal Postal Union (UPU) representative Daniel le Goff urged African countries not live in a world of exclusion, but to seize the new business opportunities unfolding in the postal sector such as financial services, post bus and e-commerce.
He said the UPU, in conjunction with postal administrations in Africa, was implementation the Postal Development Plan for Africa (PDPA), an ongoing postal reform process that required stakeholder involvement.
Tanzania Post Annual Report 2005
Tanzania Post Annual Report 2005
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