Jakarta – Indonesia nominated itself to become a member of the Postal Operations Council (POC) at the 27 th Universal Postal Congress based on efficiency of the postal sector that clocked a 10.34- percent year-on-year development in 2019.
IIsmail, Post and Informatics Director General, the Communication and Informatics Ministry, in a press declaration priced quote here on Thursday, looked for congress members’ support for Indonesia’s election.
In addition to the 10.34- percent year-on-year growth of the postal sector, profits in the first term of 2019 likewise climbed by 30 percent year-on-year as compared to that in 2018.
Ever since the pandemic struck, the federal government has actually promoted utilizing digital innovation in postal services, Ismail noted.
He attributes this growth to increased e-commerce and electronic deals.
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” I think we all agree that digital change has actually accelerated the global postal supply chain and boosted customer satisfaction, experience, and trust toward worldwide postal services,” Ismail noted.
Nevertheless, the postal sector still reels from numerous challenges during the pandemic, such as mobility restriction, suspension of transport choices, and flight cancellations, which have actually interfered with the international postal supply chain.
Ismail noted that the postal sector faced other issues, such as suspension of cross-border postal shipment, extension of managing and shipment time, increase in the variety of unsent or returned mails, and the closing of half of the post workplaces due to the spread of COVID-19
” All these factors have actually unquestionably put high pressure on the worldwide postal supply chain and postal network that have minimized the volume of postal shipment and the quality of postal services,” he pointed out.
To this end, the postal sector needs to use new holistic management and improve organization processes through digital transformation in order to enhance the quality and quantity of postal services.
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