Saudi postal corporation enters the Guinness Book of Records!!!
His Excellency Dr. Mohammed Benten has Confirmed completion of the modern postal system in record time ..:
Our strategy focused on establishing the postal structure and electronic services
His Excellency the President of Saudi Post Corporation Dr. Mohammad Saleh Bin Taher Benten that the corporation had contributed to hand over documents about 100 thousand students accepted at the Kingdom universities through the post offices in the Kingdom without letting them suffer going to universities, noting that many of the governmental and non-governmental organizations have come to rely much on Saudi post in the delivery of mail.
And that the institution continues to provide modern postal services. using the best techniques that are used globally; to keep pace with the country's direction to activate the e-government services, and spreading the e-commerce culture, out of this objective, the Corporation has made an ambitious vision focused on ensuring the readiness to contribute in the development of e-government trading, and to facilitate e-commerce exchanges, this relies on two main elements, which are providing mechanisms of product and service remote purchase request and payment, and offers the potential transfer of goods and services by credible and effective mailing structure.
The President of the Corporation, said The Saudi Post has implemented the requirements of the other element on the ground, and currently providing services, such as renewal of driving licenses, car licenses and license plates, and the "university" system to receive the documents of students applying for universities, and there are many similar services achieved with many government organizations, that initiated to facilitate these procedures, and Saudi Postal corporation is looking forward to the day when entrusted with the delivery of all official documents (ID cards, passports, deeds, certificates, communications, etc.) and delivering all the students needs from the books, certificates and documents from and to them through the postal corporation, and delivery of transactions and letters to officials and official organizations by ensuring delivery, and to finalize the procedures for all residents such as residence permits, work permits, health certificates, visas and delivered to them.
And that the Corporation has developed «Wasel Alamy»service, a new service which gives customers postal addresses in different countries in the world free of charge and enable them to use it, so that it is re-shipped and delivered to their homes in Saudi Arabia addresses on «Wasel».
He revealed that European, China and Australia markets was open after the success of the service «Wasel Alamy» in the first year in the U.S. markets only, and access to about 2000 parcel per month, with the increased demand for service from customer users to achieve an increase of 500% with the start of the second year and achieving significant revenue, Beside the increased of weight average of packages annually.
Dr. Benten said that Saudi Postal corporation Succeeded in the transition to automation of postal operations, in order to raise the quality and speeding through the postal developed techniques, and involving of clients and staff of Saudi postal in interactive cultural services, which enables each client to track and know when the arrival of his mail & parcels through the web site of Saudi Arabia postal corporation, the organization also activate developing postal techniques, and implement projects, networking between the parties of the postal network in all parts of the Kingdom, and expansion of automated sorting and electronic reading messages in all fields to raise the quality and speed in customer mail service.
The head of the Saudi Postal corporation certified that to provide this service by this way that satisfacty ambitions, The corporation has adopted the a number of regular training programs for staff at home and abroad, in order to keep pace with developments in the service, and submitting it to meet the aspirations, pointing out that the Corporation is one of the first government agencies that contributed to the Saudization of it's workers, Now all the postal operations carried out by the young sons of the nation.
Dr. Mohammed Benten, explains the expansion and dissemination of postal (Wasel) service in 2010, to cover 80% of the total population of the Kingdom can benefit of postal services in their place of residence, pointing out that the number of cities that (Wasel) is serving now are more than 40 cities .
The Corporation since few years made itself responsible for taking advantage of modern technology, and adapt it to it's programs and projects that aim to provide a service that keep pace with global communication, focused it's efforts to overcome the competition in delivery speed to addresses, and correctly, Which made it use new addresses meet the aspirations and eliminate the lack of addresses in the kingdom.
What is known that, until recently there was no clear residence address, all of it depends on the «Description» or on the participated mailbox, which requires going to the post to receive mail from it, which made the corporation invented a new address mailbox consisted of «the name of the street, main street, city and postal code consists of four numbers and other number consists of a five-digit », making the arrival of the mail to the residence are all easily and at high speed and double the effort in the past.
The new mail address provides high-speed sorting of incoming mail through the sophisticated machines have been developed recently, rather than the traditional methods that were followed by manual sorting. This increased the demand of the new mailbox address, especially after the Saudi postal corporation gives it for free to every citizen and resident. and the number of participants became more than one million members.
His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Saleh Bin Taher Benten, president of Saudi Post corporation, said that the mailboxes of «Wasel» that have been placed on residential and commercial units, was made for spreading the service, because a lot of mail clients to have bad experience in poor service from the past, as well as the development of the mailboxes was to intend to inform people that the mail will arrive at the place that you stay and not like the past of going to the post office to get your mail.
One of the most practical steps taken by the organization to raise awareness of the addresses system, that the organization installed for each residential unit or commercial or government a free of charge mailbox to encourage them to use the mailing address to receive their mail, it has also launched awareness campaigns and many commercials that explains the new addresses system and encourage citizens to find out the address and it's characteristics and urged them to effective use of their postal addresses in their correspondence.
The organization had faced many difficulties in building the awareness of the importance of the addresses system and changing the attitude of using the central mail boxes, although many people used their new addresses in their correspondence and they clearly enjoyed the benefits offered to receive correspondence in the place of their residence and work places., where the number of members in the new Wasel mailboxes became more than one million member.
And His Excellency the President of Saudi Post Corporation, said that the new mailbox addresses and one of the strategic projects, which will benefit the coming generations, where the corporation made new mailbox address for all residential and commercial sites in the Kingdom and this project is full acomplished, where the of number of new mailbox addresses are approximately 90% of all sites in the Kingdom.
He added that the organization developed a distinct system for addresses to be exclusively for each housing unit, it is based on electronic digital linked to geographical coordinates, it allowed dropping of Saudi Arabia addresses on the electronic geographic maps, and Saudi Arabia addresses is located now in the «Google» maps and other global maps, which enabled everyone to follow the shipping on the Internet, and through their computers and their mobiles.
The Mailing address, which was developed by the Saudi Postal Corporation for all regions of the Kingdom, will contribute with the organization's ability to provide postal services directly to the door of residences and citizens, and the organization provides in this addresses system to the nation the best means of facilitating connection to individuals and institutions which were not available before, as it allows the service provider the opportunity to well and safely provide the service at low cost to save their rights, thus contributing to the dissemination of services and reducing the costs, and lessen the incidence of tax evasion and fraud and help in activating the decisions of public and private rights, which requires knowledge of the party making the service address of the receiver, which enabled the project of Saudi Post (Common standard address) to get the award of being first from the Universal Postal Union.
And His Excellency said that in «Wasel» mailbox there are no participation fees for the family or individuals but it is totally free because the mail is dealing with the mailbox only, and the client can add the names of the family to get the mailing address cards and keep it with them.
He said that once the client participates in the mailbox the Ownership transferred from the Saudi Post to the client, and the mailbox become one of his personal property that he has to take care of, and we found that some clients develop a new place for the mailbox to be inside the house and leave the slot to the outside to put the mail in it, as it is the case in many countries works in this way, the postal corporation does not mind to work this way if the client wishes.
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* Thus, the officials of the Saudi Postal Corporation has entered the Guinness Book of Records in the number of statements
