[万国邮政公约]万国邮政联盟总干事2010世界邮政日致辞

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Message on World Post Day 2010
from Edouard Dayan, Director-General of the Universal Postal Union
9 October, 2010

创新的邮政，相关的邮政
——2010世界邮政日致辞
万国邮政联盟总干事
2010年10月9日

With the surge in new information and communication technologies transforming our world, many are wondering whether Posts really do have a future. My response is a categorical yes.

随着新的信息通信技术不断改变着我们的世界，有些人想问邮政还有没有将来。我可以完全肯定地回答：有！

Posts offer a whole host of services – both traditional and new – to meet the communication needs of billions of people and businesses every day. Instead of retreating before these new technologies, which are changing our concept of communication almost every day, Posts are changing too and showing that they can also be innovative.

邮政提供了一整套传统的和新的服务，以满足几十亿人及企业每天的通信交流的需求。面对着这些几乎每天都在改变我们通信概念的技术，邮政也在发生变化，而且邮政也能创新。

Some 65% of the world"s national Posts now offer online services, including online bill payments (16%), e-postage services (13%) and delivery of items against e-signatures (10%). Another 12% offer Internet shop¬ping (e-commerce), and, a full 40% provide public Internet access points. A new top level domain name, .post, recently assigned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in sponsorship with the UPU, will enable the postal sector to establish a solid base in cyberspace for developing secure and trusted e-postal services.

现在65%左右的国内邮政提供网上服务，其中包括网上账单付费业务（16%），电子邮票服务（13%），电子签名投递服务（10%）。另有12%提供网上购物服务（电子商务），共有40%的邮政部门为公众提供互联网上网服务。最近互联网名称与数字地址分配机构分配的新的高级域名.post，将使邮政部门在网络空间建立牢固的基础，并创建安全可靠的电子投递服务。

This is a course that needs to be followed. While Posts worldwide continue to process more than 483 billion letters per year, mail volumes continue to decline as a result of electronic substitution and the recent financial crisis (particularly in industrialized countries and depending on the state of the economy).

这将是一个趋势。虽然世界各地的邮政部门每年继续处理4830亿封信件，但由于电子信件以及最近的经济危机，邮件的数量还在继续下滑。

And although physical mail will not be disappearing overnight any time soon despite this downward trend, Posts are looking to the future by diversifying their products and services. Thanks to e-commerce, parcel volumes are taking off. Posts in many countries are seeing annual growth rates of 20% in parcel volumes due to online sales. Posts are also offering more and more financial services, customized e-services, logistics services, administrative services and many others.

当然信件不会因这一趋势而在一夜之间消失，但邮政部门正通过实现其产品和服务的多样化来面对未来。电子商务的出现使包裹投递的数量迅速增加。网络销售使很多国家的邮政包裹投递总量增加了20%。邮政部门也在提供更多服务，如金融服务，客户化电子服务，行政管理服务等。

All of these services also create jobs and support local businesses. A study of 5,561 municipalities in Brazil revealed that the opening of a postal bank branch in one of these municipalities over four years directly resulted in a 14% increase in the number of new jobs and a 23% increase in the number of new small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). More generally, economists agree that postal services help to increase a country"s gross national product by at least 1%.

所有这些服务也将创造就业并支持地方企业。对巴西的5561个市的研究表明，在其中一个市建立一个邮政银行支行就可以在4年中新增14%的工作机会及23%中小型企业。更笼统地说，经济学家认同邮政服务至少可使一个国家的国内生产总值增加1%。

On this 9 October, World Post Day, let us remember the very relevant and valuable role the Post plays in the day-to-day lives of billions of people and businesses, not only as a means of communication, but also as an essential driver of economic growth.

让我们在10月9日，世界邮政日这一天，记住邮政在几十亿人每天的生活及各类企业活动中所起的十分相关及重要的作用。邮政不仅是一种通信工具，它也是驱动经济增长的重要因素。

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