BAGUIO CITY – The Philippine Postal Corporation (PPC) is "still alive and kicking", despite the proliferation of Telecom Companies and private courier service.
PPC-CAR Regl Dir Tomas Baggay made this announcement during a kapihan forum, Thursday
launching the Postal Consciousness Week in line with the agency’s 110th anniversary this November .
According to Baggay, PPC maintain its competitive edge through its long experience in mail delivery and its nationwide coverage, as they are all over the country, even the remote areas in the regions.
PPC-CAR director for operations Mario Lanuza also confirmed that their office has increased its income by about P500,000.00 in 2007 compared to 2006, despite the fact that their posted mails decreased by 100,000 during the same period. Baggay credits the increase in their revenue to the other services they offered such as Postal ID, Postal money order and other messenger services.
As part of its modernization, PPC now offers money remittance services, and has postal banks . It has also computerized monitoring of mail which they call "track and trace", Baggay added.
PPC-CAR Mail and Distribution Center chief Rodrigo Anaban assured that all mails received by their office are sorted and dispatched within the same day, without backlog, as he also assured that all of their personnel are efficient and practice multi-tasking.
Other PPC-CAR officials that attended the forum were, Postmaster Victoriano De Leon, Dir II Bernardo Kub-aron, Ifugao Acting Postal District Manager (APDM) Caridad Grad, Kalinga-Apayao APDM Febie Penaflor, Abra APDM Florentino Abansi and Baguio-Benguet APDM Bernardo Ticuala.
The Postal Consciousness Week is from November 3 – 10, but the activities run until November 17 with a medical and dental mission, free-eye check-up and a blood-letting for postal employees. A tree planting and weeding activity was also conducted last November 12.** Lito Dar/PIA
