How Postal Corporation of Jamaica Mobile Postal Offices might incorporate Autonomous Drone Delivery

The Postal Corporation of Jamaica finally seem set to step forward into the 21^st 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:

Postal Corporation of Jamaica