ISLAMABAD: The UAE based Emirates Post has announced the resumption of all mail, packets and parcel services to Pakistan, providing the UAE’s Pakistani community as well as businesses a cost-effective channel to the high-volume market, it said in a statement issued Wednesday.
Pakistan accounted for nearly 80 tons of postal material in 2019 emerging as one of Emirates Post’s key markets in South Asia, according to the official handout.
Abdulla Mohammed Al Ashram, acting group CEO of Emirates Post, said: “Pakistan is one of our busiest markets, and we are thrilled to reinstate services, following a temporary suspension due to the COVID-19 crisis.”
He said that Pakistani community was an integral part of UAE’s socio-economic tapestry and that the service brought a convenient, cost-effective, and dependable mechanism for the community to send gifts, home goods, electronics as well as retail products to be resold in Pakistan.
Emirates Post announced that “effective immediately, all postal services — Economy Mail, Standard Mail, Registered Mail, Standard Packets, Standard Parcels and Express Parcels — will be available to the country, including the main commercial centers of Karachi and Lahore as well as strategic regions such as Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Quetta.”
The service will be using airfreight uplift to transport shipments to Pakistan and availing of Pakistan Post’s network within the country to ensure smooth delivery processes.
Emirates Post will continue to employ stringent measures as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the statement read.
Global pandemic forced Emirates Post to suspend delivery of international mail, packets and parcel services to Pakistan but the service is now resumed after both the UAE and Pakistan eased lockdown restrictions this month, opening businesses, commercial and public sectors.