In its attempt to remain relevant and be profitable in world of IT, the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) has introduced delivery of agricultural goods.
The federal government-owned postal service also included in its delivery package, pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics.
Others are automobile spare parts, electronics and electrical parts, computer and accessories, furniture and household items, beverages and assorted food items.
With the introduction of the service, the organization has effectively diversified from mere mail delivery and money service.
The Post Master General of NIPOST, Asiwaju Adegbuyi, said their target clientele cuts across all classes of customers.
They are individuals, traders and non-traders, corporate organizations, conglomerates, manufacturing and trading companies and industries.
He added that the mode of transportation would be land (road), sea, rail and air.
Adegbuyi, who was repreawnted by Plateau State Area Post Master Manager Malam Abubakar Usman, spoke at World Post Day in Jos.
NIPOST, he said, was planning to bring postal leaders and stakeholders to discuss new ways of transforming their business to meet costumers’ needs in changing Postal paradigm.
NIPOST had earlier adopted the internet in a variety of ways to enhance services to our customers.
It includes the delivery of cargo in remote rural areas, taking money to bank customers where they do not have branches and e-commerce services within and outside the country to meet customers’ daily needs.
It introduced special electronic money transfer platform in order to meet the demand of its clients, especially the rural dwellers.
The organization also introduced new mobile services which would be undertaken simultaneously with NIPOST’s traditional door to door mail service delivery system.
The innovation came to fruition after NIPOST struck a partnership deal with some commercial banks in the country.
