UPU on Universal Service and Regulation

Globally, postal organizations are encouraged to design their systems to keep pace with technology, develop their financial services and evolve development that will ensure communication at all levels for postal services to reach every citizen at each point and at affordable cost in such a way that mission of the post to reach every person will be achieved.
It was part of this aim that formed the deliberation of the two major arms of the Universal Postal Union Conference of Council of Administration and Postal Operations Council held in Berne, Switzerland a forthright ago.
On universal service, opinions were raised on how to regulate the industry to ensure that the mission of the post which is the mission of the Universal Postal Union in achieved.. In this regard, many counties especially developing counties are still lagging behind.
Nigeria for instance does not have an independent regulatory body that will pilot activities in the postal sector and this has been fingered as the major reason why the sector still remains where it is today.
Certain interests have made the process of having the postal policy and the bill put in place cumbersome and this has impacted negatively on the development of the sector. In other postal administrations the world over, the role of regulating the post is not entrusted in the hands of an organization which is also a player in the industry. In terms of postal reforms, Nigeria is still tinkering with her postal reform agenda. The postal world is moving fast and exploiting innovations in technology to manage and deliver quality service. Nigeria needs to keep pace with the rate of postal development in other climes by implementing the reform agenda as soon as possible. If this is not done, we will still be trailing behind in the comity of postal nations both developed and developing countries. Postal reform is supposed to address universal service provision and other problems in the sector. Other nations are advancing in the reform and the only thing Nigeria should do is to ensure that it address its reform by passing the ‘postal bill into law by the National Assembly. The post is a veritable source of revenue to the government and if things are kept in their proper shape, government will rake in a lot of revenue from the sector.
Letters below 500g, literature for the blind, postcard, letter post that is below. 5kg (500g) are items of reserve service and it is only the national carrier of nations that carries those items. The essences of this is to make sure that carriers make money from this to be able to augment other services where they operate at little or no profit to be able to sustain the universal services provision obligations. The Universal Postal Union was created in 1874 as a specialized body of the U.N. with a primary function of providing a forum for cooperation among postal players and developing social, cultural and commercial communication between people.