By Emmanuel Elebeke

With the rise of global e-commerce, the Nigerian Postal Services, NIPOST says it has embarked on the acquisition of modern information technology, IT equipments to enhance quality of service.

The Post Master General, of the organization, Mallam Ibrahim Mori Baba disclosed this at a press conference to mark the 2014 World Post day celebration in Abuja.

Apart from deploying modern technologies, the PMG said the management of the POST has embarked on the acquisition of modern transportation means for conveyance of domestic and international mails following the ban on the use of motor Cycles. And to ensure success in the effort to improve quality of postal services, he explained that IT systems had been supplied to all major Post offices as well as the training of all operations for tracking and tracing of mail processing mainly in domestic operations.

According to the PMG, the management had also repackaged NIPOST workshop as a commercial venture with the capacity to generate revenue to run its operations as a way of diversifying their products. In the area of mail traffic handling, he said a significant improvement in the number of mail items handled by the organization from January 2014 compared to the number of traffic handled in the same period in 2013.

He said that a total 24,213,750 mail items have been handled this year as against 19,688,220 in 2013. Breaking it down, he said that 16,144,778 items were posted within the country, 1,132,715 were dispatched abroad, while 6,936,257 were received from abroad.

On the plans to revive letter writing culture in Nigeria, the PMG said NIPOST is collaborating with the ministry of education and the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka to encourage school children and reverse the trend, adding that the collaboration between the NIPOST and the Central bank of Nigeria, CBN is still on course to identify the best way in which the assets and resources of the NIPOST could be utilized to attain the country’s financial inclusion target.