The only enterprise that rings the bell at every point is postal. Today nationally, many posts are already offering digital identity verification services on a domestic basis. The initiative has the overall objective to globally bind the identity of individuals and organizations with electronic identity, through compatible postal certification services. UPU.org Your comments, participation and yes even criticisms are always appreciated. Before I conclude my remarks, I want to mention that many posts around the world are already offering infrastructure and value added electronic commerce services in their domestic markets.
Examples are Sweden, Canada, USA, the UK, Ireland, Australia and the Netherlands.
These posts are leading the postal evolution. They are examples of the consumers and business choice as natural providers of trust services. What these posts are doing for the people and businesses is what the UPU has been tasked by the community to provide on a world-wide basis. When available, the postal trust services will enable people and businesses, throughout the world, to perform secure electronic commerce. On behalf of the postal community, I would like to encourage the OECD and its members to take a closer look at our achievements and to endorse the postal role in enabling global electronic commerce.