CC Postal Revenue Protection Working Group Update

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CC Postal Revenue Protection Working
Group - Update

• Securing collection of all the postage revenues
  owed to them will help Posts to weather the
  economic storm

JP DUCASSE, Pitney Bowes (representing PostCom)
Consultative Committee Plenary Meeting
Bern, 27 March 2009
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Background
Background

July 08 Congress General Debate . Private
sector suggestion that the UPU start a
Partnership for Postage Revenue Protection to
increase the integrity, the reliability and the
security of postal services. to help the posts
that have a low density of mail per capita to
create solutions to reduce revenue
leakage. combining resources, to develop common
technical specifications, deploy low-cost
solutions in the field July 08 UPU Congress
passes resolution C19/2008 calling on Posts to
embrace "cost-effective technologies that
facilitate the secure collection of
revenues" Aug. 08 External study by BPCS
confirmed that many posts were interested in a
revenue protection project Nov. 08 CC
Plenary and CA approve creation of working group
formal liaison established with PSG/IRP and joint
CA C2 Feb. and Mar.09 First call of the WG
first meeting 03/24
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Membership key private suppliers, 8 designated
postal operators and potentially 70 more
through Regional Unions
Great Britain
Association for Postal Commerce
Trinidad Tobago
Mailtec
Saudi Arabia
Nigeria
Benin
Malaysia joined this week
Malaysia
Costa Rica
Caribbean Postal Union ( 28 Posts)
Cameroon
Strong representation from Africa and the
Caribbean
Pan African Postal Union (43 Posts)
Efforts to further enlarge membership underway
observer
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CC PRP Timetable
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Diagnostics Intelligence
sharing
Create the UPU Working Group
c. Disseminate Best practices
Develop proposals for the UPU Congress
a. Conduct surveys
b. Develop White Paper action plan
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Provide assistance to project formulation
and implementation of existing solutions
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Manage development initiatives for new models
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2008 2009
2010 2011
2012
UPU Congress, Geneva
UPU Congress, Doha
WG1, March 24th
WG2, Oct.
WG3, March
WG4 Oct.
WG7 Jan.
WG5 March
WG6 Oct.
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Key deliverable end 09 UPU CC White Paper on
Revenue Protection

• Why a White Paper ?
• To highlight the importance of revenue protection
  for the posts of developing countries
• To develop a common understanding of best
  practices in revenue protection/collection
• To suggest concrete, feasible revenue protection
  activities and action plans for Posts, Restricted
  unions and our working group.

White Paper on Revenue Protection

• PART I - Revenue protection needs and
  requirements survey of Posts
• PART II Best practices in revenue protection
  solutions
• PART III Action plan assistance to countries
• PART IV Development/partnerships proposals

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We have started to work with the Postal
Security Groups International
Revenue Protection group

1994 1999 2004
2006 2008
IRP Bulk Mail And Postal Meters
Meter Security

Bulk Mail Acceptance
Postal Security (Action) group
Formal Liaison established 11/2008
Stamps Security
CC Postal Revenue Protection
Revenue Protection Seminars
Consultative Committee
Seoul Beijing
Bucharest Geneva

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Takeaways from the PRP working group meeting 03/24

• The main focus of the group is leakage of postage
  revenues, and main evidencing channels (stamps,
  meters, permit mail/PPI) across access methods
  (pillar box, post office counters, sorting
  centers etc)
• ALL Posts are struggling to measure leakage
  first step is awareness
• Survey to be launched mid-April in EN, FR, ES, AR
• Once revenue protection issues by country have
  been analyzed (survey/typology), we will
  recommend best practices involving different
  mixes of training activities, new processes and
  technical solutions
• Continue outreach efforts (e.g., viz PUASP, Arab
  countries, Euromed, Telematics Cooperative/PTC
  etc)
• WG to work with PSG, Restricted Unions and IB to
  try to get the revenue protection theme into
  Regional Development Plans