Thirteen Posts from Europe and the Arab region have created the UPU’s 17th restricted union, the Postal Union for the Mediterranean. Based in the Italian capital, Rome, the union consists of the Posts of Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Palestine, Slovenia, Syria and Turkey.
The Postal Union’s main goals include defending its members’ collective interests, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and strengthening the interoperability of postal services. In practical terms, the body is dedicated to improving the quality of letter and parcel post and money-transfer services. According to Article 8 of the UPU Constitution, member countries or their designated operators can set up regional postal communities, known as restricted unions.
Manning the ship
The new entity’s board chairman is Sherif Battisha, Egypt Post’s deputy chairman, while Stefan Gori, Poste Italiane’s head of international business strategy, is its secretary general. Speaking to Post&Parcel, Battisha underlined that the new union would hopefully be a “catalyst of innovation and growth for the whole region”. He added: “As postal operators, we have well known and trusted brands, and thus we should leverage this more…to contribute to the growth of this region, which has a population of500 million and [generates] 12 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product.”
Source; Union Postale,June-2011
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