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02.03.2026 — Chief executives from the region’s postal operators gathered with high-ranking government officials, regulators, restricted unions, private sector partners and development agencies to sign the declaration during the UPU’s African Postal Leaders Forum in Praia, Cabo Verde (25-27 February).

27.02.2026 — Trade facilitation has become one of the defining issues in global economic policy. As trade patterns shift from container-load consignments to millions of small parcels generated by e-commerce, the efficiency of cross-border procedures increasingly determines who can participate in international trade – and who cannot.

28.01.2026 — In a landmark step toward cheaper and faster international money transfers, India Post has partnered with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) to launch a new global digital remittance service linking India’s homegrown Unified Payments Interface (UPI) with the UPU’s Interconnection Platform (UPU-IP).

26.01.2026 — In a bid to advance the UPU’s vision of a more connected and digital postal ecosystem, UPU Consultative Committee member Reason Solutions has successfully modernized global postal operations with a number of national Posts.

23.01.2026 — When the Universal Postal Union (UPU) unveiled its first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) agent at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai, it marked more than a technological milestone – it signaled the beginning of a data-driven transformation across the global postal network.

21.01.2026 — In an increasingly unpredictable world, the ability to maintain essential services during and after a crisis is the ultimate measure of an organization’s commitment to its customers and its nation.

19.01.2026 — The UPU has released its first-ever delivered duty paid (DDP) solution – improving customs compliance and leading to better service for e-commerce customers. Working with the wider postal sector has been key to developing the solution and will be essential to its expansion.

16.01.2026 — Children often imagine, in play or simply out of curiosity, what it might be like to be someone else. But what happens when more than a million children around the world imagine the same thing? Then we discover the wonderful richness of their expression and how, despite their many different backgrounds, they share the same worries, dreams and hopes.

15.01.2026 — The Universal Postal Union’s Post4Health initiative continues to expand its reach by strengthening healthcare logistics through the postal network. Launched in 2025, the project in Côte d’Ivoire is supporting La Poste de Côte d’Ivoire in improving the safe and timely delivery of essential medical supplies, particularly in remote and underserved rural areas.

02.01.2026 — Re-elected at the Dubai Congress held in September, Director General Masahiko Metoki and Deputy Director General Marjan Osvald share their reflections on the UPU’s progress and outline how unity, trust and innovation will guide the organization into its new strategic cycle.

Masahiko Metoki (MM), Director General of the UPU International Bureau
Marjan Osvald (MO), Deputy Director General of the UPU International Bureau

29.12.2025 —

Since its launch in 2018, the UPU’s gender fellowship has continued to grow as a flagship initiative to empower women leaders in the postal sector. The programme translates the UPU’s gender equality and empowerment of women (GEEW) policy into its capacity-building work, offering women professionals international exposure, leadership development and direct engagement with the Union’s governing bodies.

26.12.2025 — The postal sector is facing a reckoning. While the global economy has surged by 75% since 2006, postal revenues have seen minimal growth – just 4% over the same period. The result, as the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) State of the Postal Sector 2025 report makes clear, is an unprecedented 71% “performance gap” that threatens the sustainability of postal operators around the world.