Dar es Salaam – From Tuesday people will start receiving their letters, reports, documents and various products directly at their offices and homes from Tanzania Posts Corporation.
The move is to make the agency more efficient and bring operational changes in the delivery methods to clients across the country.
The Postmaster General, Acting Chief Exxecutive of Tanzania Posts Corporation, Fortunatus Kapinga, explained the changes to media people in Dar es Salaam dubbed as “The post at the door steps.”
Initially the changed service will start in some wards of Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Arusha. Later it will spread to other regions.
Across the country there are 172 post offices and 173,000 postal boxes.
Kapinga added the government has facilitated infrastructure for the project implementation in eight wards in Dodoma, eight wards in Arusha and 32 wards in Dar es Salaam. In the second phase the areas to be covered under the new service delivery includes Mwanza, Tanga, Morogoro, Kagera, Mara, Mtwara, Zanzibar, Geita, Simiyu, Manyara, Shinyanga and Lindi.
The second phase will be implemented in 2016/17 and in 2017/18 third phase of the project will be implemented.
In the third phase the agency will cover regions including Iringa, Mbeya, Songwe, Kigoma, Njombe, Katavi, Ruvuma, Rukwa and Singida.
Meanwhile, it is learned the agency has made some changes to operating systems of some offices to make sorting out work of letters faster than before.
“The posts at the door steps” project was inagurated in 2010 and it was established in 2008.
