Comments on: Is there hope for government postal services?

By: indi.ca » Mailing A Letter. The Ordeal

indi.ca » Mailing A Letter. The Ordeal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:38:47 +0000

[...] problem is that the Post kinda sucks. The average Sri Lankan household spends Rs. 4 per month on postal services compared to Rs. 750 for telecom. The postal service is obviously not sustainable [...]

By: MahoTrain

MahoTrain — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:04:21 +0000

Thanks for the advice. We agree. Good to have some data to start off the discussion.

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:38:45 +0000

I know that your initiative is different from normal policy analysis.

But it seems to me that one has to start from elements of reality, such as the daily loss of the post office (LKR 4.5 million/day in 2006: http://lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=545475263; possibly more now); the substitution effects as shown by the LKR 4:750 ratio for post:telecom; the failure to deal with corporate mail in a sensible way; the fate of reformers, etc. Blue-sky speculation will remain speculation otherwise.

By: MahoTrain

MahoTrain — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:13:16 +0000

Some of the ideas came out during a recent exercise is given here – http://www.mahotrain.com/#!/2011/08/solutions-to-post-office-problem.html

Finding a business case for some of the selected ideas is a bigger challenge.

Thanks for the european example.