The State of the Postal Sector 2025 – Postal Power Reimagined
08.09.2025 — The world’s postal networks stand at a crossroads. The State of the Postal Sector 2025 reveals how a once-unified system splintered into parallel networks – eroding economies of scale, straining developing countries, and disconnecting postal growth from global economic progress.
Factsheet: Modernizing postal services for the e-commerce era
04.09.2025 —
The UPU is presenting three integrated plans – the Integrated Product Plan, the Integrated Remuneration Plan and the Integrated Quality of Service Plan – which together provide a unified roadmap to modernize products, ensure fair and sustainable remuneration, and raise service standards. These reforms aim to keep postal services reliable, affordable and customer-centric while securing the long-term sustainability of universal service.
Backgrounder: UPU Strategy for the Dubai Cycle
04.09.2025 — UPU member countries will endorse the UPU Strategy for 2026–2029 at the Dubai Congress, charting a vision of an interconnected, inclusive and sustainable society powered by a modern postal network. The plan sets three priorities: strengthening rules-based cooperation, fostering innovation for trade and communication, and enhancing regional development.
Backgrounder: About the Universal Postal Congress
04.09.2025 —
The Universal Postal Congress is the UPU’s supreme decision-making body, meeting every four years to set the strategy and international rules for the global postal network. The 28th Congress will be held in Dubai from 8 to 19 September 2025, bringing together plenipotentiaries from 192 member countries.
Union Postale Summer 2025
28.08.2025 — As the 28th Universal Postal Congress approaches, this edition of Union Postale explores the ideas and innovations shaping the future of the UPU and the global postal sector.
Unlock the Secret to Seamless Global Delivery: Why Address Accuracy Matters More Than Ever
28.07.2025 — As cross-border e-commerce skyrockets, one hidden issue is quietly eroding delivery success and customer satisfaction – address inaccuracy. The Universal Postal Union's latest policy brief exposes this growing crisis with powerful new econometric data.
Scaling-up Postal Inclusive Insurance: Zooming in on innovative postal inclusive insurance models and best practices
09.07.2025 — Zooming in on innovative postal inclusive insurance models and best practices
This new UPU publication explores how postal networks with their trusted presence, wide-reaching infrastructure and community-level access are uniquely positioned to help close this gap.
This new UPU publication explores how postal networks with their trusted presence, wide-reaching infrastructure and community-level access are uniquely positioned to help close this gap.
Growth in trade logistics and e-commerce through enhanced data management
19.06.2025 — This policy brief underscores the vital role of effective data management in enhancing global trade, logistics, and postal operations. It identifies key challenges, including fragmented data systems, weak customs-post collaboration, and limited data access in developing nations.
Breaking silos – Integrating digital and green strategies in the global postal sector
18.06.2025 —
While rapid advances are being made in both digital innovation and environmental sustainability, these two vital transformations are too often pursued in isolation. This UPU Policy Brief reveals why integration is not just smart strategy but a survival imperative.
Union Postale Spring 2025
30.05.2025 — As the UPU moves from celebrating its 150-year anniversary, this edition of Union Postale takes a forward-looking approach, setting the stage for the 28th Universal Postal Congress happening in Dubai next September.