15,000 new postal outlets to be established: Murad Saeed

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed Saturday announced that 15,000 new Pakistan Post outlets would be established in the country.

Addressing the launching ceremony of E-commerce initiative here at Pakistan Post, he said that Pakistan Post would soon become top contributor to the national exchequer.

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Iftikhar Durrani, Secretary Postal Services Pir Bakhsh Khan Jamali, Director General Pakistan Post Dr. Naseer Ahmed and other senior officials of Pakistan Post were also present at the launching ceremony of E-commerce initiative.

Addressing on the occasion, Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed said that Pakistan Post has witnessed surge of 50 per cent increase in its revenue.

The minister also announced to launch logistic and pick up services in the month of March. He said that all the new projects were launched by Pakistan Post within its own resources.

He said that E-commerce would integrate post and partner and engage local and global partner. He said that initially 120 partners have got registered with Pakistan Post to use E-commerce service of Pakistan Post.

He said that Pakistan Post was on the road to restore and regain its lost glory as premium Federal Public Service Organization by taking progressive initiatives such as E-Commerce to meet the rising expectations of the digital consumers and customers of the day.

He said the ever changing and rising expectations of the customers in the digitalized global market of the day was a huge challenge indeed, this initiative of E-commerce, he further stated, would create a winning opportunity for the Postal Services of Pakistan in the flourishing E-commerce market of today.

The minister further stated that it was true that the decreasing trend in latter Mail globally has threatened the traditional postal services but the flourishing parcel mail market in shape of E-Commerce has opened great vistas for postal sector across the globe.

To improve its financial health and to marking it a commercially viable entity and profitable institutions, the minister said, “We are capitalizing on the strength of this organization by utilizing its countless foot print, wide and vast delivery network and its round the clock cash remittance service”.

He said that in the first phase, a full pledge web portal web post shop would be developed which will help making Pakistan Post a hub of commercial activities and a robust platform for collaborating with the players in the E-commerce market, he said.

Earlier, Director General Pakistan Post Dr. Naseer Ahmed said that Pakistan Post is on its way to make a genuine turnaround by capturing a major chunk in the today's E-commerce market share in order to make this premium public service organization, a self-sustaining and vibrant entity.

He further reiterated that all efforts are being made to make this initiative successful venture. This, he concluded, will turn Pakistan Post into a valuable national asset.