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Universal Postal Union (UPU)

On World Postal Day, senior UN officials urge support for evolving information society

9 October 2013
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.
Postal services and their employees are celebrating the valuable public service they provide daily.
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From stamps to e-services, UN postal agency adapts to the march of time

9 October 2012
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.
Universal Postal Union - New Global Monitoring System is up and running

More balanced approach needed to ensure global postal security – UN official

18 April 2011
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 express mail segment is showing positive growth

Global mail volumes rebound after slump – UN

4 November 2010
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.
Delegates attending the UPU meeting were treated to an opening ceremony full of colour and dance

UN’s global postal agency looks to future in age of technology

22 September 2010
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.

Postal agency set to become first UN body to have own Internet domain name

26 October 2009
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.

Post offices in West Africa offer electronic money transfer services under UN scheme

14 October 2009
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.
Universal Postal Union - New Global Monitoring System is up and running

Postal service quality undergoes scrutiny by new UN monitoring system

6 August 2009
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.

Mail and parcel volumes keep rising, UN agency says on World Post Day

9 October 2008
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.

Arab countries agree to UN-backed electronic money transfer services

1 August 2008
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.