The Postal Service worldwide celebrated “World Post Day” today, as the Universal Postal Union (UPU) holds its 25th Universal Postal Congress in Doha Qatar.
In his annual message, UPU Director General Edouard Dayan says Postal Services are not standing idly on the sidelines as they evolve and play their role in an era of new information and communication technologies, mobile telephone and internet. Posts are an integral part of the increasingly digital world. The Director General further advised that as strong drivers of economic growth, Posts must continue to innovate, develop efficient and accessible Postal Services, adopt common standards and exploit new technologies to diversify and improve services. The Government must help Posts fulfill their potential as motors of national economies the UPU Director remarked.
The Anguilla Postal service in observance of World Post Day launched a services awareness campaign on the lawn of the Post Office where staff and management promoted core services and introduced non-traditional options such as Home-shopping and E-Zone; where new customers qualified for discounted rates if they wished to sign on to either the Ezone (Airfreight) or Home Shopping (Ocean freight) services or both. The promotional exercise also targeted offices and business establishments in the vicinity of the Post Office.
The primary purpose of World Post Day is to commemorate the founding of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on October 9th 1874 in Berne, Switzerland while creating an awareness of the role of the Postal sector in the every-day lives of people and businesses and assess its contribution to the socio/economic development of individual countries.
– Press Release
(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)
