Hongkong Post continues to serve as one of the seven members of the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) EMS Cooperative Board, which was established in 1999, to improve worldwide Express Mail Service (EMS) standards. Hongkong Post also co-chairs a study sub-group of the UPU’s Terminal Dues Project Group, and continues to serve as a member of the Steering Committee of the Terminal Dues Work Group, which is designing a new Terminal Dues System for implementation in 2014. Further, Hongkong Post co-chairs the UPU’s Letter Mail Product Development and Marketing Group, set up to develop a new letter post product.
In the Asia Pacific Post Cooperative (APPC), Hongkong Post continues to serve as one of the seven members of the Cooperative Management Board (CMB). Since November 2007, Hongkong Post also chairs the APP Cooperative Management Board.
The Terminal Dues System is an international cross-charging mechanism by which payments are made to destination postal administrations for the delivery of mail. The new mechanism of the system implemented in 2010 is expected to bring a significant rise in terminal dues expenditure over the current and coming few years.
Hongkong Post organised the first Universal Postal Union (UPU) e-Commerce Conference 2009 in Hong Kong on May 21 - 22, 2009. Under the theme off “Delivering e-Commerce to the People”, 75 participants from 19 postal administrations and related industries attended the event. The main objective of the conference was to discuss how members could capitalise on the business opportunities arising from the e-commerce boom. The participants concluded that e-commerce was a profitable business and efforts would be fostered in coordinating e-commerce projects among postal operators.
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