Customers complete transactions at Vietnam Post Office's business centre in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam jumped fivespots in the latest rankings of the Universal Portal Union (UPU).
The country was ranked 45th among the 172countries and territories in UPU’s Integrated Index for Postal Development(2IPD) with 51.79 points.
In Southeast Asia, Vietnam was placed fourthafter Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. However, it is noteworthy that Vietnamwas the only country in the region to record year-on-year increases in scoresand rankings, while the other nations saw drops.
In 2018, Vietnam scored 51.73 points and stoodat 50th in the rankings.
According to the Ministry of Information andCommunications, Vietnam has a busy postal market with the participation ofabout 400 enterprises from different economic sectors.
The market has posted a yearly growth of over 50percent over the past few years, with total revenue estimated at about 30trillion VND (1.4 billion USD) in 2018.
The 2IPD provides an overview of postaldevelopment around the globe. The computation of the 2IPD stems from theintegration of UPU postal big data with over 22.9 billion tracking recordssince 2013 checked and analysed, official UPU statistics, and key UPU surveys.
This index offers a benchmark performance score(from 0 to 100) along four dimensions of postal development: reliability,reach, relevance and resilience.
In addition to revealing the relativeperformance of postal operators around the world, the 2IPD sheds light on howto foster postal development and maximize the efficiency of postalinfrastructure. This makes the 2IPD a unique tool for policymakers, regulators,postal operators and other sector stakeholders eager to understand the role ofpostal services in the era of e-commerce./.
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