<div dir="ltr">Posta is to the courier Industry what Orange Kenya is to the telecoms. Stuck with a pre 2000 public service attitude and lots of legacy infrastructure that is a actually a goldmine but is viewed as dead weight. As far as i can remember Posta has always had prime locations allover the country and the ubiquity is only being rivaled by Safaricom and Mpesa nowadays. <div>
<br></div><div style>As Yawe says, before we can download a gadget from ebay to your living room, the need for a national, reliable and ubiquitous carrier remains. I remember some months back the cck flexing muscle by forcing other carriers to raise their rates. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Why is the postmaster general not accountable to the monumental failure of his organisation? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kivuva,<br><br>Please don't tell me that out of all the names you could think of, you could not come up with a Kenyan with the qualities you describe?!?<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Kivuva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" target="_blank">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">We need a great thinker, who can demolish the box altogether, who is not cowered and arm twisted by the mighty and powerful, who can articulate and convince the owners of the country, and at the same time be diplomatic. Somebody who commands respect in his achievements, and executive reasoning. Only a round peg in a squire hole can transform Posta. A name that comes to mind is Michael Joseph, although now he plays in a much bigger league<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 22 April 2013 10:16, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>It is interesting that you bring this up as it goes back to the key issue here that we in ICT have absolutely no understanding or appreciation of how relevant PSK is to delivering e-commerce and until that happens the organisation will continue on a down hill spiral finally embedding itself in the ground.<br>
<br>What is even worse is that Dr. Ndemo is even more clueless than the current PMG about the relevance if PSK in delivering e-commerce solutions which is clear from their statements about how email is replacing the services offered by the postal service which cannot be any further from the truth. <br>
<br>I always ask, once I have ordered a pair of shoes online and made the payment electronically exactly how does the shoe get to me? Until 3D printers becoming cheaper than a DVD player there is only one
answer to the question especially if your target market is Kenya (note: Nairobi is not Kenya).<br><br>The new PMG believes that the future of PSK is in payment systems a field that even the banks have realised "iko na wenyewe", which is why they have dumped all initiatives to jump in bed with the owners of money transfer and payment a.k.a. Safaricom. <br>
<br>I have been watching DHL closely as they introduce an agency module for there services, as PSK reduces locations DHL increases theirs which begs the question who is the fool here?. A company called Aramex has recently received a huge capital injection by a Dubai based investor to develop their delivery network in Kenya all this while PSK management, including the board of which Dr. Ndemo is a member, run around trying to go into a field that they have neither the skill nor experience.<br>
<br>It is my sincere hope that the rumour about UhuRuto wanting the Cabinet Secretaries and Principle
Secretaries should be under 50 comes to pass then maybe we can have a team that is open to new ideas and does more than regurgitate statements.<br><br>I reiterate again, PSK is a sleeping giant who is being kept sedated by small minded players in the courier industry.<br>
<br>Regards<br><br>PS. UPS is dying because of legislative handcuffing and the same sedating that PSK is suffering<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> <br></div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">Robert Yawe has been campaigning for this job for over 2 years – why not challenge him to run it and prove himself? I’m sure Bwana Ndemo is being considered
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<div>Hidden among the statistics released by CCK is the state of Posta Kenya. </div>
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<div>Yet despite the dire straits the state corporation seems to be in it still could reinvent itself. Posta is in dire need of re-inventing itself ala Deutsche Post which reverse took-over DHL and benefited from its logistics and savvy managerial
skills. Is the semi-privatization of Posta Kenya imminent? Is it the only thing that can save it? Should the Government/Posta seriously look at this option? I dare say we must move poste haste (pun intended) or be confined to the fate of the US Postal Service
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