AMMAN —
Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship is preparing to restructure the Jordan Post Co, Ahmed
Al-Hanandeh said on Saturday, according to Al-Mamlaka TV. The postal service is
estimated to be losing around JD million every year.
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Under the 2023 budget draft law, the government has extended
JD2.5 million in additional funds to the Digital Economy Ministry to
financially support the postal service’s operations.
"The Jordan Post is a national institution that is as
old as the state, and we are proud of it and its role and history. It has been
transformed into a private company whose shares are wholly owned by the
government, and it suffers from financial problems and structural weaknesses,”
Hanandeh said.
The minister attributed most of the company’s losses to bank
interests and fines for late receivables.
"We are working to restructure, reform, and develop the
company’s operations, infrastructure, and systems," Hanandeh said, stressing
that the national post office should improve its revenues and operations in the
future.
He said that there is a comprehensive plan
Jordan Post,
which includes upgrading its infrastructure, diversifying the services it
provides to customers, as well as expanding the support services the company
can offer government agencies across the country.
The minister also talked about the importance of e-commerce,
which could help increase the company’s revenues, about activating existing
licenses, and benefiting from new services, in addition to doing a cost
analysis.
Hanandeh said that people prefer private postal companies because
they lack confidence in the national postal service.
“Today, the number of postal parcels is decreasing
everywhere, since online correspondence has reduced the volume of parcel
exchange, and therefore the post is handling a lower volume of parcels than before,”
he said.
Regarding the possibility of attracting a partner to work
with the company, Hanandeh said that "if a strategic partner wishes to
operate the company, we have no problem discussing this issue but it must be a
strategic partner capable of developing postal operations".
As for delays in paying employees’ salaries, he said: “The
company has financial problems and the salaries are delayed because it is a
private company owned by the Government Investment Company, but managed by the
private sector under the umbrella of the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and
Supply. But this does not mean that we have abandoned it.”
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