Universal Postal Union (UPU)

During 1998, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) continued to promote a fast and reliable universal postal service at affordable prices through international collaboration among its member countries. In the light of the rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment, UPU carried out activities to promote postal development and assist postal administrations to improve the quality of their services to meet growing customer demands. The postal services of its 189 member countries remained the largest physical distribution network in the world, with 6.2 million postal employees working in more than 700,000 post offices worldwide, processing and delivering a total of 430 billion mail items in the domestic service and almost 10 billion in the international service.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Partnerships for the Goals