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.
Read MoreA fund is being set up to help improve postal services in rural areas. The Universal Service Fund will encourage mail delivery operators to take their services to unserved and under-served areas. Mr Sammy Kyungu, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, said the fund would be managed by the Communications Commission of Kenya.
Read MoreLiberia, which is already suffering under United Nations sanctions over alleged links with rebels in Sierra Leone, is now faced with another sanction – on mail leaving and coming into the country. International postal bodies and airlines have imposed the embargo because of Liberia’s inability to pay its huge debts to those companies.
Read MoreAS ENTIRE mailings go missing, postai operators stand accused of widespread failure to deliver international direct mail.
In Berne to speak to the Universal Postal Union, leading list broker James Thornton hit out at those postal services known to be giving international mailers a raw deal. “Testing over the last twelve months has indicated that some authorities are just not doing their job adequately – particularly where Surface Air Lift is used:’ he said.”The bottom line is that you get an immediate lift in response by mailing first-class. There is something seriously wrong and we are going to have to do something. It is a very big problem if direct mail that mailers are paying for doesn’t get to its destination.
Read MoreGlobal Postal e-Business – A presentation by Thomas E. Leavey, Director General of the Universal Postal Union
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