Postal service seminar

Postal service seminar

JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned postal service Perusahaan Umum Pos dan Giro (PPG) will host on Monday a three-day seminar focusing on express postal services.

A PPG director, Sumitro Roestam, said here yesterday that the seminar will involve executives from postal service firms in 16 Asia-Pacific countries, including those from the Northern Hemisphere Express Post Development Group, which supervises postal services in the United States, Britain, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland.

He said that his company will learn about the international express deliveries of documents from other firms which already run such a service.

"We plan to operate such a business later this year," he said. "In the initial stages we will serve the Asia-Pacific region before offering global services.

He said that PPG will also improve its service of domestic document delivery by issuing special envelopes which can be mailed without a stamp.

Director General of Post and Telecommunications Djakaria Purawidjaja is expected to open the seminar. (icn)