Pak Post serving 20m houses

Islamabad: Pakistan Post is providing delivery services to about 20 million households and businesses as community service without any cost considerations. An official of Ministry of Postal Services said that Pakistan Post is providing postal services in every nook and corner of the country through a network of around 13,000 post offices.

In addition to its traditional role, the Pakistan Post also performs agency functions on behalf of Federal and Provincial governments, which inter-alias include Savings Bank, Postal Life Insurance, Collection of Taxes, Collection of Electricity, Water, Sui Gas and Telephone bills he said.

He said that Pakistan Post is also providing a universal postal service network in harmony with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) strategy to ensure secure and timely delivery of mail, money and material at affordable cost through utilization of people, process and technology and innovative product offerings. -- APP

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