BPO extends spl mailing service to thana level
Friday, 17 April 2009
FE Report
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has extended its special mailing service to the thana level across the country with effect from Tuesday last.
Guaranteed Express Post (GEP), a special mailing service of BPO, will provide swift service as per customers' demand, an official of BPO said.
"We've extended the GEP service from Bangla Pahela Boishakh, the first day of the Bangla new year, to the thana level across the country," Mobassher ur Rahman, director general of BPO, told the FE.
Earlier, the BPO provided the GEP service only to the district level. But now the service will be available up to the thana level to hasten delivery of letters, documents and money to the recipients, he added.
Presently, the state-owned postal department is delivering letters, documents and money through traditional services which generally take time varying from one to five days to reach any destination, depending on the distance.
There is a great demand for urgent delivery of letters and other documents nowadays. Dhaka and Chittagong, the industrial hub of the country, have millions of workers who need to send their letters and money to their families.
There is no urgent letter, document and money delivery system to rural areas, covered by some courier services. But that is not enough to meet the demand of the countryside people, the BPO official said.
One of the country's oldest department with more than 40,000 employees, the BPO incurs a loss of around Tk 1.25 billion a year.
The BPO is desperately searching for new business avenues to make the department profitable, as its traditional services have already been poached by private courier service operators.
There are around 9,886 government post offices and agent village post offices almost at every nook and corner of the country, employing more than 16,000 post-masters, postmen and runners.
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) has extended its special mailing service to the thana level across the country with effect from Tuesday last.
Guaranteed Express Post (GEP), a special mailing service of BPO, will provide swift service as per customers' demand, an official of BPO said.
"We've extended the GEP service from Bangla Pahela Boishakh, the first day of the Bangla new year, to the thana level across the country," Mobassher ur Rahman, director general of BPO, told the FE.
Earlier, the BPO provided the GEP service only to the district level. But now the service will be available up to the thana level to hasten delivery of letters, documents and money to the recipients, he added.
Presently, the state-owned postal department is delivering letters, documents and money through traditional services which generally take time varying from one to five days to reach any destination, depending on the distance.
There is a great demand for urgent delivery of letters and other documents nowadays. Dhaka and Chittagong, the industrial hub of the country, have millions of workers who need to send their letters and money to their families.
There is no urgent letter, document and money delivery system to rural areas, covered by some courier services. But that is not enough to meet the demand of the countryside people, the BPO official said.
One of the country's oldest department with more than 40,000 employees, the BPO incurs a loss of around Tk 1.25 billion a year.
The BPO is desperately searching for new business avenues to make the department profitable, as its traditional services have already been poached by private courier service operators.
There are around 9,886 government post offices and agent village post offices almost at every nook and corner of the country, employing more than 16,000 post-masters, postmen and runners.