Postal Sector Crucial to Haiti’s Post-Quake Recovery – UN

by Gary Kopycinski on January 26, 2010

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 January 2010 – The postal sector, a key economic “motor”, will help to spur recovery in Haiti in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake earlier this month, a senior United Nations official said today.

“Haitians need effective postal services to be able to receive and send mail and goods as well as make financial transactions, including money transfers,” Edouard Dayan, Director General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), said.

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