Wednesday 15 June 2016

Post offices in Africa also sends EDI messages

The help, guidance and coaching by the Universal Postal Union (UPU) has helped Africa postal operators make a quick follow up on technological advancement in the postal industry. There are systems that little operators could afford, which UPU has made affordable, installed in postal operator mail routes for capturing and sending EDI messages.

The EDI message system is monitored centrally in each country or centrally in Berne Switzerland for prompt reporting. The focus is particularly on measuring end-to-end delivery standards of mails. In the postal business, the term ‘mail’ also stands for parcels and small packets. The exchange of EDI messages enable many postal operators to be able to answer questions on how much time it takes for letters to be delivered in specific delivery points. This was purely an estimate before the invent of exchanging EDI messages across operators.


So, go ahead and use the post office for your registered item and parcel, it will be tracked in most African country’s postal operators website to give you a close to accurate indication of its position at any given time, just like traditional courier companies do. 

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