Accra, Sept. 4, Mr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Communications, today urged the Ghana Postal Services to ensure speedy deliveries of letters and parcels. Mr. Spio-Garbrah, on a familiarisation tour of the corporation’s head office in Accra, said a drastic reduction of the mail delivery time would help it to win the confidence of the public and their sympathy if the need to increase tariffs arose. The Minister reminded the corporation of the herculean task it faces as a public utility and urged them to find innovative ways of generating more income. His ministry will provide boards for all departments at present without board of directors to ensure effective management. On pilfering at the corporation by staffers, Mr. Spio-Garbrah charged management to ensure that sanctions that would be imposed on mail pilferers are publicised by the media to create the necessary awareness among the rest of the staff. Mr. Isaac Adu Boahene, Director-General of the corporation, said strenuous efforts are being made to ensure that its mission to provide domestic and foreign customers with prompt, efficient, reliable and secure services for profit is achieved. It is the hope of management that the corporation will become more viable to meet its capital and recurrent expenditure from its own internally generated funds. ”We would want to have an organisation whose image would improve such that all its employers would feel proud to belong to it.” The Director-General said as at the end of last month, the corporation’s staff strength stood at 2,335 with some 701 postal agencies and 300 post offices. Mr. Boahene said by far, the most serious pilfering “which is beyond our control is the one carried out at the offices of origin of the mails,” adding ”the corporation has installed a surveillance equipment known as the closed circuit television at most of the major post offices in Accra and at the regional capitals to check pilfering.” Mr. F.E. Adu Boateng, Director of Finance, said from 1992 to 1995 the corporation incurred losses totalling 7.2 billion cedis but said there are clear indications that the corporation would make some profits this year.
