万国邮政联盟总干事2010世界邮政日致辞.docVIP

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 worlds 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 t