The
Postal Corporation of Jamaica finally
seem set to step forward into the 21st Century. Along with those
changes will be some job cuts.
This
as Minister of Science, Technology Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell has
announced that the Postal Corporation
of Jamaica's aka the Post Offices are going Mobile in a bid to reduce
losses by the State run entity as noted in the article “Post
Offices Going Mobile- Government Embarks On Pilot As Postal Services Become
Uneconomic”, Published Tuesday March 3, 2015, Darion Luton, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Part
of Minister Phillip Paulwell's plan is to purchase two (2) Mobile Postal
Services costing some JA$32.6 million in a guinea pig trial run in the Rural
Areas, where Post Offices have been closed due to lack of usage. This will
enable the Postal Corporation of
Jamaica to expand their reach into the very rural part of Jamaica without investing
in fixed infrastructure that needs constant maintenance.
There
are also plans to introduce Money Transfer Services in the First Quarter of
2015 as well as the introduction of the ZIP
Mail Service in thirty nine (39) additional locations across the island.
Postal Corporation of
Jamaica goes Mobile - How Mobile Postal Offices might incorporate Autonomous
Drone Delivery
This
as the Postal Corporation of Jamaica
needs to increase their revenue intake by becoming more efficient to reduce
losses.
Losses?
Yes,
and they are considerable, due mainly to the fact that Jamaican hardly use the
Service anymore even as their operating Expenses are on the rise:
1.
JA$57 million in operating expenses in
2012-2013
2.
JA$90.5 million in operating expenses in
2014-2015
3.
JA$149.5 million in operating expenses
projected for 2015-2016
Meanwhile
Net Profit from the Postal Agency has been falling:
1. JA$34.2
million Net Profit in 2013-2014
2. JA$11.7
million Net Profit in 2014-2015
3. JA$10
million Net Profit projected for in 2015-2016
Due
to its lacklustre performance given the amount of money that the GOJ
(Government of Jamaica) is lavishing on the Postal Service, the 2015-2016 Budget
has been reduced and allocations have been made.
Hopefully,
somewhere in that expenditure will be an investment in as Drone Delivery
Service for Packages similar to that being done by DHL in Germany as described
in my blog
article entitled “DHL
Parcelcopters make deliveries to Juist off Germany’s coast – Why Progress of
Drones in West slower than in the East for same-day delivery” as this
sounds somewhat wasteful.
Autonomous
Drones can fly over large swathes of Jamaican terrain and deliver packages to
remote locations where even the Mobile Vehicle and even delivery Motorcycles
and Bicycle cannot go. Best of all, they can guarantee same day delivery.
If
there are plans afoot to test Drones for the Police in St. James, Trelawny
under the Eye in the Sky Project as noted in my blog article
entitled “Eye
in the Sky Project in Montego Bay – How Drones reduce Crime in St James in 6
months as NAITS Initiative gets Rebooted” then why not for the Postal Corporation of Jamaica Post
Offices?
Certainly
will add the Zip in Zip Mail!!!
Here’s
the link:
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