Thailand Post is ready to launch Prompt Post, a digital mailbox service, by the third quarter of this year. The transfer is geared toward capitalising on the rising development of electronic doc dealing with and supporting the company’s Post Digital mission.
Thailand Post‘s chief executive, Dhanant Subhadrabandhu, explained that the company has been actively growing its enterprise to offer complete postal and logistics companies. Prompt Post is a digital mailbox platform designed to offer comfort for its clients.
The digital mailbox system ensures safety through identification verification using an ID card system, which is confirmed by the Department of Provincial Administration. Once the identity is successfully verified, clients can entry the Prompt Post service.
The means of receiving and sending documents via Prompt Post is similar to sending common letters, with the primary distinction being the electronic format. Senders of business-related registered letters must present an electronic signature to ensure authenticity and stop forgery. Rich can be used as proof in court docket.
Dhanant highlighted that the main distinction between a digital mailbox and an email is that emails can receive spam messages or messages from unknown senders. At the identical time, Prompt Post is a closed platform. Therefore, senders should register first to verify their identification via a course of generally recognized as KYC (Know Your Customer).
Thailand Post is currently discussing with a quantity of government agencies to develop a Prompt Post pilot challenge. The firm is the only authorised company under the Postal Act with full authority to function certified digital mail and paperwork within the nation.
In addition to the digital mailbox service, Thailand Post has invested in IT infrastructure to turn out to be an intelligent logistics operator. Last year, the corporate invested round US$64 million in such development.
The transformation of traditional mail to a digital mailbox platform will assist put together Thailand Post’s postmen for further integration into the e-commerce ecosystem. Dhanant said…
“Our 18,000 postmen may help introduce merchandise to folks locally, receive orders and ship the merchandise as required within the retail business.”
Currently, transport and logistics account for forty seven.6% of Thailand Post’s complete income, followed by the postal group at 31.2%, the international service group at 15.9%, the monetary enterprise group at 1.78%, the retail enterprise group at 2.78%, and different enterprise at zero.66%..