Digital Union - January 2022

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FEATURED: UPU improves and expands distance learning

The UPU’s distance learning tool, TRAINPOST, has been modernized and will be relaunched with new features that will help to bridge the gap between more developed and less developed countries’ Posts. TRAINPOST is a distance-learning platform offering free modular courses on a range of topics, including postal reform and regulation, postal products, financial services, management of postal operations, postal technologies, and human resource management techniques.

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UPU Handover Ceremony

UPU welcomes new leadership team

The UPU’s incoming Director General, Masahiko Metoki, and Deputy Director General, Marjan Osvald, were honoured during an official welcome and handover ceremony at the UPU’s headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, on 5 January 2022. Speaking during the ceremony, the Director General said, “Throughout my term, I will do everything possible to strengthen the ties that bind us closely together.”

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Press release: New UPU leaders begin four-year mandate.
Press breakfast: Transcript.
Learn more about the UPU Director General and Deputy Director General.
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Media zone

UPU Podcast: Behind the scenes of humanitarian logistics

In 2022, 274 million people will require humanitarian assistance. Ensuring its timely provision is the task of humanitarian logistics. While the main driver behind these life-saving deliveries – to deliver by any means, at any cost – is different from commercial ones, those responsible for them generally face the same challenges and trends as the entire logistics sector. All this and more - on Voice Mail’s Episode 8 with ICRC.

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UPU Blog: Delivering the undeliverable

An office of exchange is mainly a processing facility of international mail, but it can play a pivotal role in the delivery of undelivered international mail items. Pakistan Post has found a way to make thousands of undelivered inbound parcels reach their addressees without any additional investment.

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We are open to contributions! Email us at communication@upu.int to have your postal blog featured or to make your suggestions of podcast topics and guests.

Interviews

UPU bridging postal development gaps

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Who’s who at the UPU: Abdellatif Meskine
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Posts around the world

SAPO invests in the future of South Africa through literacy programme

For many years the South African Post Office (SAPO) has played an important role in helping to eradicate poverty in the country.
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Canada Post eyes green future

Canada Post launched an ambitious environmental plan to help create a more sustainable operation over the coming decades.
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Changing the latitude of the postal business

Post Fiji CEO Dr Anirudha Bansod tells Union Postale what’s new and next for the small island postal operator, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2021.
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Solution spotlight

Postal services in the palm of your hand

The UPU is developing mobile apps to help posts reach their customers directly, to help create efficiencies, and to move further into the digital age in a cost-effective way. First up: an app to help facilitate the exchange of electronic advance data (EAD).
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What's up next - Upcoming events

POC and CA sessions, Berne and online

21 March-1 April 2022: POC Standing Group Meetings
9-13 May 2022: Postal Operations Council (S1)
16-20 May 2022: Council of Administration (S1)

More is upcoming! Keep checking our events page.

New releases

Union Postale No.4 2021

This last edition of the year features the reflections of the UPU outgoing General Management team on the achievements made in their nine years at the helm of the UN specialized agency for the postal sector, as well as what they view as the pressing issues still facing the organization as they pass the torch to Mr Masahiko Metoki and Mr Marjan Osvald.

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