Postal firms set strategy

Postal firms set strategy

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned postal firms in the Asian-Pacific
region are using a three-day seminar here to formulate strategies
to compete against private courier services.

"Huge private courier firms including TNT, UPS and DHL, which
operate internationally, are the main competitors of state-owned
postal firms," a director of Indonesia's postal firm, Sumitro
Roestam, said yesterday.

The seminar, organized by the Asian Pacific Post Business
Center (APPBC), is being attended by 32 delegates from 16
countries and is scheduled to close today.

The APPBC was set up in February this year by the Asian
Pacific Postal Union, which is under the supervision of the
Swiss-based Universal Postal Union.

Rustam said that the seminar is trying to formulate general
strategies such as the leasing of aircraft from private courier
firms.

He also said that postal firms in the Asia-Pacific countries
should cooperate more to improve competitiveness.(icn)