Consumers may be able to post their letters at 7-Eleven stores in the near future, as Chunghwa Post Co (
"We'd be glad to push forward this project for the convenience of our customers," said Su Tien-fu (蘇天富), vice president of postal services at the Chunghwa Post.
But there's no time frame for this plan as the state-run postal company is waiting for approval from its board of directors before rolling out new services in conveinence stores, Su said.
"We held a board meeting this morning, and some of our board directors said they hope the company can extend other postal services to customers in convenience stores," Su said.
Additional proposed services include a package-mailing service, a mail-holding service and sales of postal commodities such as collector's stamps and stamp albums.
President Chain is also looking forward to cooperating with Chunghwa Post, as it wants to expand its services to boost sales. The company said last week at an investors' meeting that its average daily per-store sales in the first seven months of the year dropped 3.4 percent from a year earlier to NT$62,715.
"With the addition of postal service in our stores, we expect to increase the number of customer visits," said Wang Wen-hsin (
Chunghwa Post may later expand the services to other convenience chains such as FamilyMart Co (全家便利商店) and Hi-Life International Co (萊爾富), Su said.
President Chain is the largest convenience store chain in the nation, operating a total 3,352 outlets, followed by FamilyMart's 1,468 outlets and Hi-Life's 800 stores.
One customer was happy to hear of the proposed new service for convenience stores, saying the current number of postboxes and post offices' business hours do not meet her needs.
There are over 20,000 postboxes in the nation, according to Chunghwa Post's statistics.
"I don't have to walk a long way to the post office in my neighborhood, or rush to send mail during my lunch break," said Joe Tseng (
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