Postal services to be accessible by drones: TPC

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC) is in the final stages of introducing drone couriers in an effort to reach the under-served remote areas.

 The corporation’s chairman Mr Haruni Kondo said the project will first be introduced in the Lake Zone regions.

Mr Kondo told a press conference on Friday August 31 that the corporation has also opened a digital shop where a person in Tanzania can sell his/her products anywhere in the world.

“TPC has set strategies to increase the revenues and efficiency in providing services to meet customer’s satisfaction,” he said.

According to the chairman TPC was able to triple its initial profit in the 2017/18 financial year.

“In 2016/17, after breaking even, we made about Sh259 million but now we are speaking in billions on profits,” said Mr Kondo.

He attribute the achievements to the hard-working employees where according to him the conditions have been improved and salaries increased by 70 per cent.

“Before, the workers were suffering a lot, the benefits were very low but now we have improved and this has upgraded morale,” he commended.

Further he said TPC is developing a program called ‘Jamii center’ where a customer can get all the services at one place; and there are installed CCTV security system and body scanners to ensure customers safety.

“Among other things we are setting a strategic plan to sustain ourselves and not solely depend on the government,” said the chairman.