NIPOST expresses worry over undelivered postal items within FCT
The management of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has disclosed that it is worried over the growing number of postal items in its custody that could not be delivered within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
This is contained in a statement signed and made available to Daily Times by the Mr Taiye Olaniyi, the agency’s Corporate Affairs Manager in Abujaon Friday.
The statement stated that many items could not be delivered to their desired destinations within the advertised time frame to their owners in the FCT in recent times due to faulty addresses.
The statement also revealed that several attempts made at getting mails that comprised mostly of academic certificates from foreign institutions of higher learning were unsuccessful owing to insufficient addresses.
The statement therefore called on the residents of the metropolis who were expecting one mail or the other to visit NIPOST office at Area 10, Garki, Abuja with concrete and verifiable identification.
“It is instructive to note that seamless mail delivery in postal operations is predicated on provision of legible, accurate and identifiable addresses.
“Such specifics as Post Office Box / Private Mail Bag numbers and or Street/ House numbers and locations as well as the Postcode of the area.
“Basically, a correctly addressed mail is of mutual benefit to the operator and the customer because it hastens mail processing and facilitates prompt deliveries to rightful owners.
“We therefore enjoin customers to be more painstaking in addressing their mail,’’ the statement said.
Olaniyi, it will be recalled, had in an interview appealed to the public to carefully write out addresses of the parcels and mails possibly in capital letters to make deliveries speedy.
He hinted that many valuables and important documents that might define people’s destinies and status were frequently abandoned at the post offices because the people handling the items could not understand the addresses.
Olaniyi explained that when customers are addressing a parcel they must have it in mind that the person on the other side of the counter was not in their mind to know precisely where the parcel was headed.
He asserted that for effective and speedy delivery of parcels customers must endeavour to outline the addresses in an accurate and concise manner to help the agency carry out its function effectively.
