on Tuesday, the head of the state met at the Kremlin with Director General of JSC “Mail of Russia” Maxim Akimov, who recounted how the Federal postal operator to cope with the difficulties of the period of limitations for coronavirus and what are the goals in the future. “Email, of course, refers to systemically important sectors: it works, should work always, not only during epidemics, but even in wartime. How has this work now?” – asked the President.
“We stopped work for a minute, didn’t cut people continued to fulfill their obligations, primarily as a Federal postal operator”, – said Maxim Akimov. He recalled that “Mail of Russia” is 42 thousand branches across the country and 330 thousand employees. “We are the second commercial employer in the country after the Railways, and this resulted in a whole range of problems that we solved,” – said the Minister.
In the period of rapid spread of the coronavirus more than 1.5 billion rubles were aimed at protecting staff from infection, about 28 thousand employees transferred to the remote mode. For customer convenience, shelf life of mail was extended from 30 to 60 days. Twice as cheaper couriers despite the explosive growth – in the thousands of percent – demand for shipping. Timely action allowed not only to survive in difficult times, but to get a plus – for the past four weeks, revenues “Mail of Russia” has increased tremendously. Maxim Akimov also reported on two new products, which “Mail of Russia” intends to offer its customers.
One of them is called “Email-business”, is a series of digital solutions, which is related to ecommerce. This sector gave a significant increase in revenue by 2019-more than 200 billion rubles, and the driver of growth was domestic e-Commerce. “It is very important, especially now, actually restarted small and medium enterprises. Channels online trading is a perfect story to start, but you have both provide measures of state support to give a good logistics. And Mail is the only organization that can from point to point (I don’t take the capital), for example, from Chelyabinsk to Khabarovsk to deliver any shipment to provide “cloud services”, accounting, commercial accounting, and, most importantly, to teach people how to do business online,” said Maxim Akimov.
the Second major project is the social centres in the countryside. “10 million people we only state presence. We have them there and shop and Bank and service center”, – stated the head of “Mail of Russia”. Post-office, in his opinion, the perfect place to provide a variety of services. Here you can register a brow��ESA on a Single portal of public services, conduct light medical diagnosis using wearable items.
On site mail can work with various financial services, training programs, record for the online courses. “Of course, this can be a very powerful stimulus, the more we have 11 thousand branches in rural areas. We are aware of our responsibility, despite the fact that working in the market, do not receive state subsidies, however, we have to be successful to this network to maintain. From where takes the Mail, goes largely sometimes life itself,” – said Akimov.
the President, he asked for support in the implementation of these projects. “Rather, it is a focal character, but I think these two stories for good development, and social and economic, would be very useful,” he said. “Well,” – said Vladimir Putin.
