Month: October 2022

Courier Facts You Didn’t Know

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Courier services were invented in Persia.

Around 400 BC, Prince Cyrus the Younger enlisted the help of runners, horsemen, and homing pigeons. These assets were used to deliver important messages throughout the kingdom and beyond.

After a short while, the Greeks and Romans swiftly made horse and chariot the most widespread delivery method replacing the foot couriers.

A marathon is 26 miles long because of a courier in ancient Greece.

Pheidippides, a courier, ran this distance from Marathon, Greece to Athens to spread the news that the Greeks were victorious over Persia in the Greco-Persian War.

According to history, royal courts used their own messengers during the middle ages, or about between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries. Their responsibility was to make sure political communication was always possible.

Virtual Address For Business or Personal Use

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  1. What is a virtual address?

This is an innovative product that turns your mobile phone number into a postal address in the format of 0700000000-00100, Kenya.

2. What challenges do virtual addresses solve?

First is safety, Kenyans have been sharing postal addresses for an extended period of time. This was due to the lack of enough physical boxes. However, with MPost, the 30 million adults in Kenya can now own their own virtual addresses.

Second is the notification service which saves time and resources that would otherwise be utilized to keep checking whether mail or parcels have arrived at the Post Office.

3. What benefits of a virtual address for your business?

It is an important KYC tool for both clients and the business. Clients can automatically identify the location of the business using the Postal Code. A virtual MPost address also enables accurate shipping of goods to the clients.

4. How does a virtual address work in practice?

Choose PO Box: Choose the most convenient post office where you can receive your letters, documents or parcels.

Notifications: Get SMS alerts notifying you when you have received mail or a package at the Post Office.

Delivery: Grab your own mail or get it delivered to you. You control how you get your mail.

The user’s phone number plus the postal code of their nearest post office becomes their government-recognized mailing address.

EG: P.O. Box 0700000000-00100,Kenya.

 

5. What is the pivotal role MPost has played in the future of e-commerce and more so virtual addressing?

First, we have an affordable and reliable last-mile delivery service that helps online businesses deliver goods to their clients. We have also partnered with e-commerce sites like Shop Zetu to enable them to cut the turnaround time of clothes from vendors to their clients.

Second, MPost addresses are trusted and Verifiable addresses as an MPost Virtual Address is government-recognized. Shipping goods via the postal service compared to other logistics companies is also a lot cheaper and hence gives customers an appetite for shopping more.

Meet Winnie Karwitha, our Chief Financial Officer.

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I grew up using my parents’ postal address as my own, so when I first heard of MPost and the concept behind it, I thought to myself, “Wow, what an awesome idea!! This is definitely a game changer.” The idea of converting a person’s mobile phone number to a post office address, therefore turning their phone into a post office box is pure genius. The service is very affordable, costing only Ksh. 400 per year. It improves the ease of accessing postal services and E-commerce sites while also increasing privacy because personal documents and shipments do not have to be accessible through a communal post office box. I’ve been using my mobile number as my postal address since I signed up for MPost. I have officially “moved out” of my parents’ house.

 

 

My role as CFO includes monitoring the firm’s financial health and assisting the organization in achieving both short-term and long-term objectives through strong strategic planning. I am also in charge of preparing the company’s portfolio for investor funding and ensuring that the resources acquired are used wisely.

Working with MPost has shown me how different its operations are from those of other types of businesses, and I am excited to add these new skills to my portfolio.

So far, it’s been a wonderful experience. It fills my heart with joy to wake up every day and go to work at a place that feels like home, to do work that I am passionate about while also learning. Our team leader serves as an example to all of us, teaching us the value of teamwork, perseverance, resilience, and prayer.

As MPost continues to grow and spread its reach across the world, I look forward to the day it will become a Unicorn, and I will be proud to have been part of its success story!

How does MPost help address the e-commerce challenges?

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Logistics: Reliable Logistics to be specific and addressing remain to be two key hindrances to the success of e-commerce in Kenya and the region at large. With the recent rise in technology, one cannot argue that the traditional shop/marketplace is slowly becoming obsolete. More and more businesses are moving online.

The start of the Covid-19 pandemic saw most businesses and individuals embrace online services, helping drive the growth of the sector. According to a report by Caroline Njenga of KBC, “E-commerce revenue in Kenya is expected to hit Kshs 430 billion this year driven by robust government investments in digital infrastructure that have increased internet adoption, uptake of digital services and mobile money innovations.” She further outlines that the absence of a National Addressing system is among the e-commerce challenges.

So how then is MPost helping address these challenges? First, through a first-of-its-kind patented addressing solution, you can now turn your mobile phone number into an official address e.g. P.O. Box 07xxxxxxxx – 00100, Kenya at a cost of 3 dollars annually.

Second, MPost has introduced an affordable and reliable delivery service that is helping online businesses deliver goods to their clients. We have successfully done this for over a year attracting businesses across diverse industries such as Clothing (Shopzetu), Food (Wok on Wheels), etc

We are on a journey to promote Pan-African trade through innovation. Join us in our quest by registering for your MPost address by dialing *631#.

Meet Roselyn Kanario, our Human Resource Manager.

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I am a Certified Human Resource Professional with good educational background and over 5-year expertise in HR policy, administration, management, teamwork, and leadership.

Finding the top talent to join our team at MPost and for our employer partners is one of my goals in order to promote company growth and success. I firmly believe in going over and above with every single task that I do and this has been the key to my professional success.

Human resource is a diverse department inclusive of talent recruitment, retention, training and development, employee relations, and conflict resolution. I have extensive knowledge in this field and I embrace new ideas and perspectives as I strive to be better every day. The confidence I have in my ability to handle the task and challenge at hand gives me the drive to approach each day with the zeal it merits.

As George Bernard put it “Life is not just a brief candle, it’s a splendid touch which I have gotten hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as bright as possible before handing it over to the future generations.

Meet Joan Umani, our Chief Operations Officer.

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I am the Chief Operations Officer of MPost. My day-to-day responsibilities include supervising the call centre team and logistics department, liaising with the Postal Corporation of Kenya regarding product training, acting as a liaison between staff and the management team, training new employees, developing new products, and conducting in-house and Postal Corporation of Kenya training.

My time working for MPost has been fantastic. Working at a tech firm was a new challenge for me; I had to transition from journalism/mass communication to business and learn how technology works, especially in the digital realm. So far, the experience has been incredible, although there have been a few hurdles, as with any profession. The most significant challenge I had was assisting the business in navigating the covid-19 epidemic.

Addressing, I believe,  has been one of the most significant barriers to African commerce and growth. MPost has been effective to address the issue of sharing addresses, which leads to lost belongings, and missed chances such as applying for employment or even gaining a seat in a university or college. We are now able to implement address verification thanks to MPost.

I am grateful for the chance to serve as Operations Manager at MPost. This has made me proactive in the sense that I now have a varied knowledge of digital progress, knowing how quickly technology is evolving, and being a part of that journey. I can now mail my things without difficulties through e-commerce platforms since I now have a valid virtual address due to MPOST.

As the layman put it, change is inevitable; businesses must adapt to meet changing needs and requirements. I can say that I joined MPost when I was much younger, handling social media accounts and that I am now the Chief Operations Officer. This represents the firm’s and the founder’s ideals; as the company grows, so should each individual who works at MPost.