[kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General

[robert yawe]

Hi,

Postal Corporation owns a lot of prime land around the country where the various 
post offices seat, by making the corporation dormant you increase the likelihood 
of diverting the usage and even ownership of the properties.

As you mentioned PCK still makes a lot of money from postage services all you 
need to do is visit the post office on saturday morning and see the volume of 
people coming to pick their mail.  PCK is the ideal paypoint for utilities.

PCK has been sedated to allow other businesses to flourish, such as those inter 
province courier services who when they cannot reach certain destinations cost 
effectively result to using PCK.  Kenya Railways was crippled to allow truck 
owners to ferry heavy goods from Mombasa to Malaba and beyond.  Changing the law 
to allow 3 axles on trucks was the killer blow both for KR & our roads.  When 
the new regime got control of KR aka RVR they revoked the 3 axle law 
which instantly increased revenue to KR/RVR giving it a new lease of life.

It is easy to know which selfish interests benefit from the sedation of PCK, 
with the coming of agency services for the banking sector PCK stands to become 
relevant but only if the person at the helm can steer the organisation away from 
the rocks.

Regards


A fish goes bad from the head down
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696




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From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Mon, 8 November, 2010 9:45:03
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Yawe for Post Master General




On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,
>
>
>It is saddening to see how Postal Corporation is treated as a dumping ground for 
>retired civil servants turning it into a sedated giant being denied the 
>opportunity to play its rightful role  in levelling the  playing field.
>
>
>Many of us think that just because we rarely receive snail mail that it serves 
>no purposes, we write articles and make statements of how email and instant 
>messaging are the final nail in the coffin of Posta but I ask after your order 
>the pair of shoes online and pay via mpesa or mkesha how do you expect to 
>receive the shoes? SMS, email, or IM.
>
>
>I believe that we are doing a disservice to the country by killing Posta and 
>someone needs to stand up and put Posta back to where it belongs as the enabler 
>for e-commerce, e-learning, narrower of the digital divide and governance.
>
>
>I therefore offer myself as a candidate for Post Master General of Postal 
>Corporation of Kenya.

Hi Robert,

Over the weekend (on Sunday), I needed to call KPLC Call Centre. This was 
prompted by the incidence of having been without Electricity from Friday to 
Sunday. To call the KPLC call centre, they always require you to specify your 
account number, which prompted me to retrieve on my electricity bills for 
reference. Guess what I saw on the bill?? on the top right hand corner was a 
stamp (sort of) reading "Kenya Postage Paid" (or something close). So I asked 
myself the question: If KPLC has to post electricity bills every month to all 
it's customers, how much revenue does that translate into for what I'd love to 
call KPTC (sic)?? There are so many entities that use Posta, like KRA, and all 
those organizations which still insist on snail mail. So there is still need to 
retain Posta for it's services. Even in the developed world (US, UK, etc) they 
still use Postal services. If anyone wants to "kill" Posta, then I must ask why?
Posta is probably just killing itself. Ineptitude, inefficiency, unreliability. 
There was a point in time when no one trusted their mail would get to the 
destination when dispatched via KPTC. When it was transformed to Posta, things 
seemed to "want to change", but they did not quite - not as much as expected. By 
the time this was happening, several courier companies had been formed, and 
"licensed". I don't know who did this, but what comes to mind is that someone 
saw a void that needed to be filled. Posta was becoming irrelevant, if you get 
what I mean, because this was their service being taken away from them. There 
are historical reasons behind Posta's poor service delivery, the most 
outstanding being corruption. Now corruption in Kenya is facing its waterloo, 
because of the new katiba. Maybe now is the time to have Posta being run 
professionally as a business outfit, not as a govt dumping ground for civil 
service rejects and political cronies.
I have a feeling you can turn Post around, but where do we start?

Is Posta under the docket of Dr. Bitange Ndemo? Perhaps he can tell us if he has 
any plans of turning Posta around. Posta, like our Police Service needs reforms, 
and that has to start with staff attitude and behavior. Do you know how Posta 
recruits those staff who serve at the counters? I swear I've never seen any 
adverts for such positions all my life. New blood needs to be injected into 
Posta to make in functional. If you feel you can do this, then why not? Major 
General Ali can be given a diplomatic assignment so that you take over at the 
helm of Posta. We'll give you two years from the date of your appointment to 
show us what you have achieved, or show cause why you shouldn't be either taken 
to court (depending) or be shown the door.

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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