Posts worldwide celebrated the World Post Day on October 09, during the period the Universal Postal Union was holding its 25th Universal Postal Congress in Doha, Qatar.
The Rwanda National Post Office joined the international community on that day, but the commemoration of the event was re-scheduled for this 26 October, in order to allow the Rwanda delegation in DOHA to come back and participate in the celebrations.
The theme for the WPD 2012 is ‘’ A new strategy for a new world’’. It is to be recalled that the Doha Postal Strategy, is a roadmap adopted by the 25th UPU Congress, to guide the development of the postal sector at the international and regional levels over the next four years (2013-2017),
with goals aimed at strengthening the postal sector’s three dimensions – physical, financial and electronic – through better interconnected networks and quality of service, innovation and responding more effectively to market changes.
In his 2012 message about the WPD, the Director General of UPU emphasized the role of postal services in an era of new information and communication technologies, mobile telephones and the Internet.
“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.”
In Rwanda, to adapt to these constant changes brought about by new technologies that cause the volume of mail to decline continuously, we readjusted our strategy by incorporating ICT in whatever we do and by considering new information technology not as a threat but as an opportunity.
We intend to take advantage of the opportunities offered by e- commerce to increase the volume of parcel post.
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