“To shore up our fortunes in a digitalised economy where mail volumes have plummeted, we are now leveraging on the advent of digital globalisation through modern technologies and strategic partnerships,” said Dan Kagwe, the Postmaster General and CEO of PCK during the signing of the partnership agreement.
Kagwe said the partnership was a culmination of past collaborations which anchored the launch of MPost, a digital postal service that saw Safaricom subscribers offered virtual post office boxes linked to their mobile phone numbers. Under the agreement that birthed MPost, Taz Technologies offer the services of conversion of mobile phones to postal address numbers, alert notifications, and mapping services to enable the delivery of mail.
Posta seeks speedy Sh1bn approval to keep outlets open
Summary
The Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) now wants the Senate to fast-track the approval of Sh1 billion that it requires annually to keep its branches open across the country in a bid to grow revenues.
PCK, in a letter to the Senate Standing Committee on Information, Communication and Technology Wednesday said that the amount will help cushion the corporations’ universal service obligation.
Friday April 16 2021
By BONFACE OTIENO
Summary
The Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) now wants the Senate to fast-track the approval of Sh1 billion that it requires annually to keep its branches open across the country in a bid to grow revenues.
Despite the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) having an unmatched network of more than 600 branches countrywide and a large fleet of delivery vehicles, we have seen our revenues dip as mail volumes tumbled and private parcel delivery companies eat into our market share.
In an era where agile private entities are leveraging on e-commerce and social media marketing informed by technology advancement such as big data and artificial intelligence, we have had our Damascus moment and we are now angling our operations for a piece of the e-commerce pie.
Though the mail business has been a long lasting golden goose for the postal services industry, we recognise that its decline is ‘irreversible’.
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February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Acting Director-General Communications Authority of Kenya Mercy Wanjau during World Post Day celebrations in Nairobi. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) and the National Assembly are at loggerheads over a proposal to inject Sh1 billion annually into the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), dealing a blow to the efforts to revive the ailing parastatal.
The National Assembly had recommended that CA injects Sh1 billion annually into PCK from proceeds of the Universal Service Fund (USF), the authority’s kitty to finance network infrastructure development in marginalised areas.
The proposals are contained in a report by Parliament’s Labour and Social Welfare Committee, following hearings on PCK’s failure to pay employee salaries between March and August last year.