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With more than 600,000 postal offices around the world and an increasing reliance on services beyond physical mail, on World Post Day, senior United Nations officials urged Governments to support postal reform and modernization to ensure that services are evolving to meet customers’ needs.

The United Nations global post agency, the world’s second oldest international body created at a time when the postage stamp was at the cutting edge of communications innovation 70 years before the UN itself was founded, marked World Post Day today with a pledge to fully embrace the digital age with logistical and financial services.

It is important to ensure that security measures do not hamper the movement of mail or undermine the growth of the postal sector, says the head of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU) after a group of experts met to discuss safety standards in the industry.

The volume of mail and parcels delivered through the world’s postal network is on the rise again after a down-turn during the global financial crisis, according to new data released today by the United Nations postal union.

The United Nations postal union opened a two-day strategy session today to plot its course in the new age of technological advances and changing consumer behaviour.

The Universal Postal Union (UPU), the world’s second-oldest international organization and one of the few United Nations agencies to pre-date the creation of the mother organization, moved a step closer today to becoming the first to have its own domain name on the Internet – to be known as .post.

Some 300 post offices in six West African countries have begun offering electronic money transfers as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to use technology to help ensure that rural populations and migrant workers have access to better services.

Postal services in 21 countries are testing out a new United Nations tool that uses state-of-the-art technology to measure their performance and improve the quality of their operations.

Domestic and international mail and parcel volumes continue to grow, despite predictions that they would decline because of the advance of electronic commerce, the United Nations postal agency says today as it observes the annual World Post Day.

Eight Arab countries have signed an agreement to start electronic money transfer services using technology that has been developed by the United Nations postal agency with the aim of helping rural populations and migrant workers have access to better services.