Tag: Universal Postal Union (UPU)

Kuwait to handle postal exchange between Iraq and rest of world

Posted by | Sep 9, 2003 | |

Kuwait and the interim ruling council in Iraq have agreed that Kuwait plays the part of the third party in postal exchange between Iraq and the rest of the world.

Hamid Khaja, undersecretary at the Ministry of Communications, told Kuna that the Universal Postal Union recently circulated a bulletin in which it announced the resumption of postal exchanges between Iraq and the rest of the world via Kuwait after a long halt due to the latest developments.

The union said that Kuwait will handle regular letters from Iraq, but not registered or express mail or parcels. It did not elaborate.

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Ivory Coast unable to host international postal forum in 2004

Posted by | Nov 8, 2002 | |

Strife-torn Ivory Coast has pulled out of an agreement to host a major international postal services conference in 2004, Economic Infrastructure Minister Patrick Achi said Friday.

The west African country had been selected at the UN’s Universal Postal Union (UPU) conference in Beijing in 1999 as the host of the organisation’s 23rd congress, set for 2004.

But Achi told AFP that he officially announced at a recent UPU conference in Geneva that Abidjan, the main city in Ivory Coast — split into opposing rebel and government camps since an uprising on September 19 — would not be able to host the conference.

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Post Offices confront an electronic future

Posted by | Oct 30, 2002 | |

How post offices should respond to challenges posed by technology and market liberalisation is being debated at conference of the Universal Postal Union. The 700 delegates are discussing how organisations devoted to moving paper from place to place should deal with a future increasingly enveloped by email messages.

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