Robert Absolutely. The million dollar question is what can we learn from the American Postal Service fiasco to enable us not repeat that story. Or has the train left the station already? Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd +254 773/713 601113 "The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb Sent from my iPad On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:02 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Ali,
The issue affecting the American postal service is also what ails our Postal Corp and at least in America they are talking about reneging on universal access yet we have just enshrined it into the constitution which means that PCK cannot charge different tariffs for delivery to far flung locations as they will be in contravention of the constitution.
If America is having such a herculean task effecting that change yet for all intents and purposed they have achieved what we are proposing in the just launched ICT Masterplan imagine how much more difficult it will be for Kenya.
This discussion has been going on for decades in America but with 60% of the US still being rural applying what the postal service is proposing will cost a number of elected officials there re-election when you consider the number of pensioners who still receive their cheques through the post.
Regards
PS. Before anyone contests my 60% rural ratio remember that the yard stick for defining an area as rural is different from here just like you cannot service on a dollar a day in America but in Kenya you would.
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 8:12 Subject: [kictanet] The Post Office Fiasco Shows Why America Is Doomed - Lessons for Posta and Kenya?
Listers
An interesting article on where the Postal Services are going..the way of the Dinosaur?
The United States Postal Service has made a perfectly sensible decision. In light of the move by most Americans to electronic mail and online bill pay, it will no longer deliver the post on Saturdays. The volume of mail has plummeted over the past five years, and the service is deep in the red. Taking Saturdays off will save it about $2 billion a year. It's a smart move. But the way it came about is a portent of doom.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/post-office-shows-why-america-is-doomed-2013-...
What lessons for Africa in general and Kenya in particular?
Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
+254 773/713 601113
"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb
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