E-postal service in offing

Chamikara Weerasinghe

The Postal Department in a ground-breaking modernization drive will introduce electronic and online postal services. . “The Department will soon launch what will be Sri Lanka’s first E-postal service,” Deputy Post Master General R D P Gamini told the Daily News yesterday.

“ New services will be introduced with the help of Moratuwa University,” he said. “Necessary hardware and software for implementing the new postal services, have been developed by University of Moratuwa , “ said Gamini.

”The service network will be handed over to the University, he said.

Explaining features of the new service, Gamini said, the public will be able to pay their cell phone bills to relevant phone companies, do instant electronic money orders and track postal information on express and international shipments, among other things, through post offices once the new services are operative. The Postal Department is planning to introduce 17 new postal products. There will be special online mailing facilities for customers, he said. Postal Department sources said they are taking steps to modernize the postal service and its network islandwide together with 3500 sub post offices.