Korea Post Teams Up with LG25 to Expand Services
- Plans to establish 100 outlets around the country by next year
Korea Post said it has plans to allow to have LG25, a convenience store chain, to open around 100 outlets at Korea Post branch offices around the country for the sake of its customers.
Under the policy, LG 25 opened its first and second Postal LG25 at Korea Post Gwanghwamun branch and North Incheon branch on Jan.6.
Korea Post said postal services such as mailing of parcels , envelopes, purchase of stamps and others will be available at these Postal LG25 convenience stores that will stay open 24 hours daily, which will total 100 by next year under an agreement signed between Korea Post and LG Distribution Co., running the convenience store chain across the country.
Korea Post said the agreement is an win-win strategy between a government organization and a private firm, a successful co-marketing arrangement, taking advantage of spaces available at Korea Post offices and retailing expertise of the convenience store.
Postal LG25 will be set up at a 70 square meter space at each Korea Post offices and handle part of postal services and the usual commodities and services. The stores will also have an automatic stamp selling machine, where people can purchase stamps with coins.
Accordingly, customers who want postal service, can also buy other goods from the convenience store located inside the postal office, while customers who want to purchase goods at the convenience store can also take care of their business at postal service at the same time. Since the Postal LG25 will open for 24 hours a day, postal services will be available around the clock, boosting Korea Post's public service.
For reference, the Japanese postal authority made an arrangement with Lawson, a convenience store chain in Japan, in August, 2003, and opened Postal Lawson at its premises across Japan providing a 24-hour service to its customers.
Park Jae-kyu, head of the postal service team of Korea Post, said Korea Post has been able to provide convenient service to its customers with the openings of No.1 Postal LG25 and No.2 Postal LG25 where high-quality goods and services will be available to customers. He said a total of 100 such stores will be set up by next year on a step-by-step basis which will virtually expand postal service by making them accessible at convenience stores located inside the Korea Post office around the country.
Korea Post is in charge of postal services and financial services by post offices. Its major businesses include providing basic postal services of handling and delivering postal matters(general mails and parcels). It also provides additional services(registered mails, acceptances of postal matters at customers' location, sales of local products by mail order, and postal errand service, etc. It also handles postal savings, postal,money order and postal giro, in addition to postal insurance.
Korea Post has one division, two bureaus, 12 departments(management & planning division, postal service bureaus, financial service bureau, and audit section.)
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