Regional development in eastern Europe
Regional development in eastern Europe – A presentation by Thomas E Leavey, Director General, UPU
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Tasks of the Postal Operations Council until 2004
Tasks of the Postal Operations Council until 2004 – A presentation by Carlos Silva, Inspector General of Posts and Telecommunications / Chairman of the Postal Operations Council
Read MoreUPU Opens to Private Sector
Private sector postal stakeholders will in the future
be able to participate in meetings of the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU)
main bodies. This was made possible after the UPU’s Council of
Administration, during its annual session in Berne, Switzerland, adopted the
recommendations of a High Level Group on the future development and role of
the organisation. This Group recommended the creation of a new UPU body to
be known as the Consultative Committee. This means that the UPU’s structure
will now include three interest groups, namely governments or postal
regulators, postal operators, and external stakeholders.
UPU wants universal postal services extended to digital world
The posts should extend their universal services to the digital arena, according to the Universal Postal Union director general Thomas Leavey.
“It’s a logical extension in the era of the Internet,” Leavey argued. He heads the Berne-based organization of 189 member countries, the primary forum for cooperation between postal services.
The UPU says that since posts are trusted intermediaries, they can extend their traditional role into the digital domain as well.
Leavey defines the complementary universal services as access to Internet and e-mail at a minimum. To overcome the problem of computer access, the UPU is mooting setting up Internet kiosks in post offices and charging users a small fee. “Someone has to pay. In some cases, governments may very well pay,” Leavey said.
Read MoreUniversal Postal Union chooses Airclic to enable new postal "Track and trace" service
Universal Postal Union chooses AirClic to enable new postal “track and trace” serviceBlue Bell, Pennsylvania, 9 October, 2001: The Universal Postal Union, the United Nations agency overseeing the world-wide postal service, announced today that it has selected AirClic to enable a new service giving proof of delivery of international parcels and express mail (EMS) items. Using bar codes read by small scanners attached to mobile phones, postal workers will be able to increase the efficiency an…
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