THE BARBADOS POSTAL SERVICE is diversifying its activities to remain relevant in light of the declining demand for social mail services.
Postmaster General Margaret Ashby said yesterday that technology had forced the postal service to chart a different path away from the traditional mail service “in an age of technology when messages are sent and received at the click of a mouse”.
At the opening of a postal stamp exhibition in honour of Barbados’ 50th anniversary of Independence at the General Post Office in Cheapside, Bridgetown, Ashby said the 164-year-old postal service was now launching out into areas such as tourism promotion and expanded business facilitation.
She said Barbados stamps had been used over the years to advertise the island as a tourist destination, a measure that had attracted many a stamp collector to the country. (GC)
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