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The 53rd International Letter-Writing Competition for Young People.
Write a letter to future generations about the world you hope to inherit.
In 2024, participants will be encouraged to reflect on the future of the world under the theme: "At 150 years old, the UPU has served people around the world for more than eight generations. The world has changed enormously since then. Write a letter to future generations about the world you hope they inherit."
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State of the Postal Sector.
The UPU also took the opportunity at the Extraordinary Congress to launch its first State of the Postal Sector report, which identified a clear causal link between countries’ postal development and national economic growth, particularly in times of economic shocks and crises. The report compared postal development scores with the growth in real GDP and found a strong correlation between the levels of postal development and the intensity of post-pandemic economic recovery, meaning a well-functioning postal network led to greater economic recovery after the global health crisis. A calculation presented in the report clearly shows that, without postal services, a country’s GDP would fall by nearly 7%, highlighting postal services’ essential role in sustainable national economic performance
The UPU Director General said that the report’s findings should “serve as a clarion call for governments and other stakeholders to partner with and invest in the growth of the postal sector.” He added: “Like many threads coming together to form a strong and resilient fabric, collaboration and partnerships will weave the fabric of our postal future.” The report also provided a comprehensive overview of the postal sector’s existing landscape, challenges, innovations, and potential avenues for the future. In Riyadh, the UPU recognized the countries that showed the most promising development over the previous year during a dedicated awards ceremony. Achieving the highest of 10 postal development levels in the UPU’s Integrated Index for Postal Development (2IPD) were Austria, France, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland, with the Swiss postal service achieving the highest 2IPD score for the seventh consecutive year in 2022. Acknowledged as rising stars for their standout, year-on-year postal development level increase were Oman, Slovenia, and Uzbekistan. Brazil, China, Estonia, Ethiopia and Morocco were acknowledged as postal development leaders in their respective regions.The Extraordinary Congress also provided a platform for the UPU’s Strategy Summit, which convened ministers, heads of postal regulators and postal CEOs to discuss the UPU’s strategy for 2026-2029 under the theme: “People, Progress and Purpose: The Next Chapter for the Postal Sector."
Financing of UPU.
Another historic decision made in Riyadh concerned the UPU’s budget. For the first time in more than 25 years, the UPU member countries decided to increase the organization’s regular budget ceiling to provide the organization with additional financial resources, approving a budget increase of 1.6%. “This has broken the 26th yearly tradition of zero nominal growth for the UPU, which is very important,” said Germán Vázquez, General Sub-directorate of Postal Regime, Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Spain, and co-chair of the Congress topic on the UPU finance matters. “What is also important is not the amount of money, but the message from the countries to the IB (International Bureau) about the trust they have in our activities.” The extra money will be extremely beneficial for the union and its projects. Co-chair, Matano Ndaro, Director of Competition, Tariffs and Market Analysis at Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy, said: “The extra funding will focus on two major projects that the International Bureau will be undertaking. These concern cyber security and the Emergency and Solidarity Fund. We were informed that in the past 10 years, out of the 70 emergencies that were reported the UPU has only been able to deal with about 22.” The Emergency and Solidarity Fund provides emergency assistance to revive postal activity in affected areas following a disaster. UPU member countries often donate expertise, money and equipment, while others donate financial credits from their Quality of Service Fund resources for specific projects. Meanwhile, for cyber security the UPU has developed several tools to help posts tackle cybercrime. Its .POST top-level domain, for example, provides a secure and trusted Internet space to serve the needs of the global postal community in the digital economy. Furthermore, the cybertrack.post solution, launched in May 2022, is a fully automated, web-based dashboard tool, which provides real-time monitoring of .POST domains’ technical compliance with approved cybersecurity policies, and provides access to the .POST Learning Platform where cybersecurity training and capacity building activities are held. “The new funding resources will make it possible for the UPU to react and respond with more agility and in a timely manner, to help countries that are faced by disasters and to respond very quickly in rebuilding the postal infrastructure to serve the global community,” Ndaro added.
Climate Action.
Alongside the agreements for opening the UPU and the modernization of postal financial services, the Extraordinary Congress also approved proposals for a historic Green Package, which outlines voluntary climate action targets for the industry aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and established a framework for climate action, focusing on mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance, supported by a dedicated Climate Facility. The Green Package sets forth a voluntary tiered approach to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the postal sector, recommended based on posts’ capacity to measure emissions and take action. First tier countries would strive to reduce emissions by 30 percent by 2030, with all three tiers working towards a collective 85 percent reduction by 2050. The new Climate Facility, meanwhile, will be established pending voluntary contributions. The United Arab Emirates and Germany pledged their partial financial support during the plenary meeting. Furthermore, the adoption of the Green Package also provides a mechanism for posts to make their green commitments and ambitions more visible, by signing the Postal Climate Transparency Action statement. Oliver Kaliski, Head of International Relations, Mail and Finance Network Division at Austrian Post, led the postal climate action work at the Extraordinary Congress in Riyadh on behalf of Austria. “The adopted Green Package is just the starting point,” he said. “We now have a common goal for the entire UPU membership to reduce emissions. There is now a lot of work to be done, especially in getting the Climate Facility up and running, and for that we need some more voluntary funding. We have crossed the starting line but there is still a lot to do before we can cross the finish line.”
Postal financial services.
One area set to benefit from deeper engagement with WPSPs is postal financial services. In Riyadh, several proposals were adopted in this area, with a focus on ambitious modernization and interconnection with wider postal financial service players (WPFSPs). Proposals passed will bring about changes to postal financial services on two fronts. First, they will usher in improvements to the UPU’s legal framework for postal payments, known as the Postal Payments Services Agreement (PPSA). These changes are directed at increasing the interoperability of the postal payments network, including the establishment of conditions for interconnection with WPSPs; prevention of money laundering, terrorist financing and financial crime; PPS*Clearing; remuneration and the global adoption of a trusted trademark, PosTransfer. The resolution also lays the groundwork for further broader changes to the UPU’s legal frameworks associated with postal payments and other postal financial services to identify opportunities related to diversification, the removal of outdated elements and the adoption of a more flexible approach to defining products and services, technologies, channels, and interoperability rules. This again includes rules for further engagement with WPFSPs. To promote the continued evolution of postal financial services worldwide, member countries have also agreed to start work towards establishing an advisory knowledge centre, subject to extrabudgetary funding. Prannoy Sharma, Deputy Director General (International Relations and Global Business), Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications, India, and co-chair of the UPU Congress topic on postal financial services, believes that a new knowledge centre for postal financial services will be especially beneficial for developing countries. “The knowledge centre will provide member countries with best practices, knowledge sharing, technical assistance, help with financial literacy, information on regulatory frameworks, and promote financial inclusion and gender equality,” he said. “Once we secure extra funding and develop the centre, it will become a vital resource for postal financial services.” Speaking about the postal financial services proposals adopted in Riyadh in general, Sharma’s co-chair, M’hamed EL Moussaoui, Managing Director, and member of the Executive Board of Al Barid Bank, Poste Maroc, added: “Regarding the future of financial services, we have taken a significant step forward during this Congress with the adoption of these reforms.
A second part of the postal financial services reforms will be presented at the Dubai Universal Postal Congress in 2025.
Wider postal sector engagement.
One of the headline agreements adopted in Riyadh will see deeper engagement of the UPU with wider postal sector players (WPSPs) – a topic which has been under discussion at the UN specialized agency for many years now. WPSPs refer to postal supply chain companies and partners outside the UPU network of government designated postal operators. The suite of proposals adopted in relation to this aim to bolster the development of a truly interconnected, efficient, and universal postal service for all. The UPU will now work on expanding and formalizing its relationship with WPSPs, including private sector companies. The decisions made in Riyadh introduce changes in three areas. First, they amend and better define the UPU’s institutional framework to encourage the participation of WPSPs in UPU discussions and decision-making processes through the organization’s Consultative Committee. Second, they enable WPSPs’ eventual access to specific sets of UPU products and services to encourage seamless network interconnection and improve the global quality of postal services. Following the decision, the UPU will work to establish the operational, technical, legal and policy frameworks needed to facilitate the exchange of postal items between national postal operators and WPSPs. It will also push forward the development of a solution that will bring together the demand and supply of UPU-certified international postal transport services, as well as an interface allowing WPSPs to easily capture and generate postal data required to ship items through the UPU’s universal postal network. Finally, the approval of these proposals provides a roadmap to ensure the organization’s continued modernization amidst rapid market changes and increasing competition. “There are some that say the proposals adopted for engagement with wider postal sector players are modest, but I believe the decisions made in Riyadh were extremely important,” said Stuart Smith, Chief of International Postal Affairs at the US Department of State, who co-chaired the work on this congress topic. “The first step is always the most important one, and now we have crossed the threshold hopefully we can travel on a glidepath into the future.” Smith believes that the biggest benefit of working closer with WPSPs will be within the area of products and services. “This will open new possibilities for cooperation and for building on things that are already happening commercially in the market. Hopefully this will enable more UPU operators to benefit from them,” he said. “Ultimately, working closer with WPSPs not only benefits designated operators, but it also benefits consumers and the citizens who use our services.” Smith’s co-chair, Samir Zouaoui, Deputy Director for the Development of Postal Activities at Algeria’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, believes that the WPSPs congress decision will help the UPU stay up to date with the rapidly changing market and put partnerships at the core of the postal sector’s evolution. “The approval of these proposals has left a big mark on the history of UPU,” he said. “In the future, the UPU and wider postal sector players will not necessarily be considered the competitors of designated operators, but instead they will be considered partners, and the postal sector will be built on the efforts of all.
Shaping the future of postal interoperability.
Ready to Market Interoperability Group (RMIG): shaping the future of postal interoperability
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has launched a groundbreaking initiative called the Ready to Market Interoperability Group (RMIG). This initiative strengthens cooperation between Designated Operators (DOs) and wider postal sector players (WPSPs) to support growth, innovation and the sustainability in the postal ecosystem while directly addressing the needs of customers.
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Streamlining global airmail: airlines and postal services strengthen collaboration through the IATA–UPU partnership.
As the representatives of the Co-Chairs of the IATA–UPU Contact Committee (American Airlines and Sweden), we are excited to share recent strides forward in cooperation between the aviation and postal industries to enhance global mail delivery. These joint efforts reflect these sectors’ shared commitment to addressing logistical challenges and improving service quality for customers worldwide.
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UPU and its member countries celebrate women’s achievements through history.
FEATURED: UPU and its member countries celebrate women’s achievements through history
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the organization and the occasion of Women’s History Month in March, the UPU has embarked on a global campaign to spotlight the pivotal role of women in shaping the history of not only the post, but also nations through two powerful campaigns; #PostalWomen and #SheStamps.
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Unlocking the past and unveiling the future of envelopes: how standardization reshaped the envelope in the 1960s.
In the wake of the economic crisis of 2008 and the unprecedented lockdown of 2020, the once-prevalent tradition of sending letters has faced a steady decline, hastened by the widespread adoption of the Internet. This shift is leading to the gradual disappearance of the humble envelope, prompting a closer examination of the standardization efforts spearheaded by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) over half a century ago.
Unlocking the past and unveiling the future of envelopes: how standardization reshaped the envelope in the 1960s
Achieving a single postal territory - a global promise, past and present.
FEATURED: Historians to reflect on the development of ‘a single postal territory’ – a mission 150 years in the making
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2024. On this historic occasion, the UPU will host its first-ever international historians’ colloquium in Berne, Switzerland, on 1 and 2 February 2024, welcoming 40 academics and historians as panelists as well as philatelists from over 16 countries around the globe.
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The UPU will launch its 150th anniversary celebrations in close partnership with La Poste Groupe, La Poste Historical Committee (CHP) and SI
Together for trust: Collaborating for a safe and connected future.
Post offices serve as essential hubs for cohesive, inclusive, connected communities. They provide access to vital communication, commercial, social, financial and digital services, and are often the only public service provider in remote regions. Throughout history, postal workers have been the friendly faces greeting people at their doorsteps every day, building trust with communities over generations. The foundation of the Post's success as a service provider lies in the trust it has earned from people across the globe down the centuries. Today, more than five million postal employees are entrusted with a variety of essential and personal items, from messages, gifts and goods, to money and medicines. This trust has been cultivated through a steadfast commitment to safety and security. Posts have tirelessly worked to improve the safety of roads, providing training programmes for delivery drivers, and implementing security measures to keep dangerous goods out of the supply chain, safeguarding workers and customers alike. Furthermore, during times of disasters or conflicts, Posts have extended a helping hand, organizing supplies and emergency services for those in need; often, they are the first to assist in these situations. Posts can leverage this existing trust-based relationship to help bridge a gap facing billions: the digital divide. By connecting their expansive physical network to the digital sphere, Posts are embarking on a massive digital transformation to offer secure online services in this Fourth Industrial Revolution. The UPU has been a dedicated partner in building a safe and connected global network that serves nearly eight billion people each day with modern and secure services, and it is a key part of this transformation. However, close to 100,000 of the world’s 650,000 post offices lack adequate Internet infrastructure, limiting the services they can provide through digital channels. This means 100,000 communities missing out on a wide range of digital, financial and social inclusion services that these Posts could offer. We should ensure that all citizens and businesses have access to the full range of benefits offered by the digital economy. So, through its connect.post initiative, the UPU has set an ambitious target: ensuring that every post office has sufficient access to the Internet by 2030, to enhance digital inclusion of these underserved communities. Not only does the UPU strive to ensure that all Posts have sufficient access to the Internet, it is also working to do so securely by ensuring that Posts, big and small, can access affordable, state-of-the-art tools and technologies to support e-commerce, e-government and e-finance services. “Together for trust” is a call to action for all governments and their postal operators to support the development of a digital single postal territory to match the physical network built over centuries. This World Post Day, I urge you to work together with the UPU to ensure that people everywhere need look no further than their local post office to find access to the digital economy. Let us work hand in hand to create a world where everyone can benefit from the secure digital and physical services that our global postal network can offer. Happy World Post Day
Statement by the Director General of the UPU International Bureau on World Post Day 2023 "Together for trust: Collaborating for a safe and connected future"
攜手互信：攜手共創安全互聯的未來.
2023 年世界郵政日：“攜手互信：攜手共創安全互聯的未來”
Juntos en confianza – Colaborar para un futuro seguro y conectad.
«Juntos en confianza» es un llamamiento a la acción dirigido a todos los gobiernos y a sus operadores postales para que apoyen el desarrollo de un territorio postal digital único que se equipare a la red física que se construyó a lo largo de los siglos.
– Mensaje del Director General de la Oficina Internacional de la UPU en el Día Mundial del Correo 2023 «Juntos en confianza – Colaborar para un futuro seguro y conectado»
El cartel muestra dos manos, que simbolizan la unidad y la asociación, elegantemente entrelazadas y formadas en su totalidad por vibrantes píxeles de color púrpura.
Вместе во имя доверия. Сотрудничество ради безопасного, взаимосвязанного будущего.
"На плакате изображены две руки, символизирующие единство и партнерство, изящно сложенные и полностью образованные яркими фиолетовыми пикселями."
Обращение генерального директора ВПС по случаю Всемирного дня почты 2023 «Вместе во имя доверия. Сотрудничество ради безопасного, взаимосвязанного будущего»
"Unis pour la confiance» est un appel à l’action lancé à tous les gouvernements et leurs opérateurs désignés pour qu’ils soutiennent le développement d’un territoire postal numérique unique devant correspondre au réseau physique bâti au cours des siècle."
Message du Directeur général du Bureau international de l’UPU en la Journée Mondiale de la Poste 2023 – «Unis pour la confiance –Collaborer pour un avenir sûr et connecté»
يوم البريد العالمي 2023
معا وموصول" ً من أجل بناء الثقة: لنتعاون من أجل مستقبل آمن
رسالة من المدير العام لالتحاد البريدي العالمي بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للبريد