KARACHI, April 24: Foreign delegates from 12 countries were on Thursday briefed on the computerized postal system in place in the Pakistan Post Office.
The visit to the Sindh postal circle was part of the four-week course, titled “Automation, mechanization, and information technology in the Pakistan Post Office”, organized by the Postal Staff College in Islamabad.
The deputy postmaster general, Fazli Sattar Khan, gave the participants a detailed briefing about the various systems, involving information technology, in place in the Pakistan Post Office.
The participants were informed about the various services offered by the Pakistan Post Office, such as international speed post, airex service, urgent mail and money order service, fax and money order service, pickup facility to bulk consumers, local express service, credit and discount rate facility to bulk consumers, remittances transfer system, etc.
The highlight of the briefing was the presentation on the so-called track and trace system which allows the postal department as well as its customers to “follow the footsteps” of the parcel with the help of a website.
The participants who paid the visit to the Pakistan Post Office on Thursday were Nazrul Islam, deputy postmaster general, from Bangladesh; Shamsul Alam, deputy postmaster general, from Bangladesh; Ahmed Remah Ismail, auditor, from Egypt; Aklilu Sadik, overseer, from Ethiopia; Reza Zamani, computer expert, from Iran; Ms Kauhar Abazganova, chief international accounts, from Kyrgyztan; Ms Alieva Elmira, economist, from Kyrgyzstan; Mohammad Shahid, deputy director, from the Maldives; Serge Karl Keble, senior postal executive, from Mauritius; Ms Thet Thet Wai, assistant manager, from Myanmar; Nyi Nyi Lwin, assistant manager, from Myanmar; Achyut Prasad Dahal, postal officer, from Nepal; Mohammad Lamine Diouf, inspector, Senegal; Utkir Turgunovich Umarov, postal officer, from Uzbekistan; Sarvar Nezamov Mahamadjanovich, postal officer, from Uzbekistan; Ismail Mahdi Ahmed Al Ghabry, manager, from Yemen.
KARACHI, April 24: Foreign delegates from 12 countries were on Thursday briefed on the computerized postal system in place in the Pakistan Post Office.
