NIPOST Moves To Enhance Mail Distribution

The Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) on Tuesday announced plans to use a National Addressing System to enhance house-to-house delivery of mails.

The Public Relations Office Manager of NIPOST, Mr Taiye Olaniyi, told newsmen that such scheme would improve service to customers. Olaniyi said that the unplanned, highly populated areas in the country posed a problem to NIPOST especially in house-to-house mail delivery.

“NIPOST has thought it right to initiate this idea of National Addressing System in which case every location, object and human being should be able to have its various addresses.

“As a result of that, not only will NIPOST be able to deliver to them but other organisations, such as Federal Road Safety Commission and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority will use such facilities,” he said.

He said that even with the growth of Information Technology and electronic mail delivery, NIPOST was still very relevant in the country.

Olaniyi noted that in terms of the security, delivery of hard copies was still vital to NIPOST operations.

He said that parcels and other sensitive items still had to go through the post, whether public or private.

“A lot of hackers and internet fraudsters have had their way to track people’s transactions online due to the advent of electronic transactions.

“This unhealthy incidence of cyber crime in the country should necessitate physical delivery of some of these items; even when people prefer internet,” he said.

Olaniyi said that NIPOST had been instrumental to the bill before the National Assembly seeking to make the organisation a sole regulator of postal services.

“We hope that when the bill is passed, NIPOST will be solely responsible as an operator, although, a national operator, along with other private operators will sound well for our aspiration to move the postal service a little bit higher than it is currently,” he said.