{"id":5534,"date":"2008-10-10T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-10T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T06:42:00","slug":"e-commerce-keeping-postmen-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/5534-e-commerce-keeping-postmen-busy.html","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce keeping postmen busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce and advertising have buoyed postal services even though international letter-post has fallen in the past five years, the Universal Postal Union said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Domestic parcel volumes rose 7.9% in the five years between 2002 and 2007 to reach 6.5 billion items, the UPU said in a statement to mark World Post Day, with international volumes up 1.4% over the same period to reach 44 million items.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The increases are thought to be due in part to the growth of e-commerce, with the majority of online purchases still remaining within borders,&quot; the Bern-based organisation said.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic letter-post grew 0.3% over the five years to 433 billion pieces, with advertising mail accounting for around 30%.<\/p>\n<p>However, international letter-post fell 2.6 percent with a volume of 5.5 billion items in 2007, due to &quot;stiff competition from new technologies&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce and advertising have buoyed postal services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}