2012: Postal Agencies Deliver 350bn Letters

The Director Gen
eral of Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Mallam Ibrahim Mori Baba, has said that the postal services delivered about 350 billion letters and more than six billion parcels globlally last year, in a bid to strengthen postal services.
The Director General said this in a statement at the 2013 World Post Day/Customers’ Forum which was made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt, last Wednesday.
Baba, noted that letter-post service remains an important part of the business, and that letters accounted for an average of about 45 per cent of the post’s overall revenue last year.
He further stated that the gradual decline in mail business has so far forced NIPOST to redefine its self.
The NIPOST boss, revealed how postal organisations around the world have diversified their products and services to better meet customers’ needs for reliability, speed and security.
According to him, the growth in e-commerce has forced a kind of repositioning as the delivery service of choice for goods ordered online.
Putting the number of post offices globally at 600.000, he said that postal service are inclusive and accessible, adding that no one gets turned away.
In an address, the Area Postal manager, Rivers Territory, Mrs L.U. Nwakanma, remarked that the post was not left out in the onslaught of world economic crises, stiff competition as a result of market liberalisation.
The Rivers NIPOST Chief, listed globalisation, e-commerce and new competing technologies among this challenges in the postal services industry.
However, she has said that the post would not fold its hands and watch the industry engulfed by the challenges, but will brace  up against the odds, so as to remain in business.
It would be recalled that the United Nations has fixed October 9, of every year as World post day celebration.