On the morning of March 20, 3, the Ministry of Information and Communications held a conference to summarize the implementation of the Postal Law. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Bui Hoang Phuong chaired the conference.
Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong gave a directive speech at the conference
Attending were representatives of leaders of a number of units under the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Public Security and 30 businesses in the postal sector.
Speaking at the opening of the Conference, Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong said that on May 30, 5, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 2022/QD-TTg approving the "Postal development strategy until 654 and orientation to 2025", which affirms the viewpoint: "Developing postal services into one of the important and essential infrastructures of the country. Postal infrastructure is used to provide postal and other products and services; Participate in preventing and combating natural disasters, epidemics and emergencies, with the public postal network as the core.
At the same time, the Postal Development Strategy also defines a vision to 2030: "The postal service becomes an essential infrastructure of the country and the digital economy, especially e-commerce; expand service ecosystem, expand new operating space; promoting the development of digital government and digital society".
To meet the expectation of postal services becoming an essential national infrastructure, while overcoming the limitations of the current Postal Law, in 2024, the Ministry of Information and Communications has registered in Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated May 05. January 01 of the Government's task of developing the revised Postal Law.
To carry out this task, the first and most necessary thing is to summarize the implementation of the Postal Law from its promulgation in 2010 until now.
Today's conference is a specific task to review the results achieved in the postal sector, while identifying limitations and content that needs to be supplemented to create a premise for forming a market. Postal services will develop healthily and sustainably in the next 5-10 years.
Overview of the conference
At the conference, representatives of postal businesses had many opinions to share and contribute to perfecting the contents as well as new points that need to be added to the revised Postal Law.
Mr. Le Quoc Anh, Deputy General Director of Vietnam Post Corporation, said that along with the explosion of e-commerce activities, the postal delivery market share structure has shifted strongly with market capacity. Postal service for e-commerce accounts for 70% - 80% of the entire postal delivery market. At the same time, many related value chains appear such as storage, return, collection, payment... On the other hand, e-commerce platforms appear more and more and expand postal delivery activities to the recipient. instead of depending on postal businesses. Therefore, the amended Postal Law needs to supplement regulations on postal activities serving e-commerce (including cross-border e-commerce), and postal service provision activities of commercial floors. e-commerce.
Also discussing e-commerce in postal activities, Mr. Dinh Thanh Son, Deputy General Director of Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation, proposed considering additional business conditions for postal enterprises with postal delivery activities. e-commerce goods delivery and COD collection, similar to the conditions for providing payment intermediary services, including: minimum charter capital, measures to ensure solvency, and personnel conditions , technical infrastructure conditions to create a legal framework, limit cases where postal service users are misappropriated or misappropriated COD money.
