Starting in February, people can add Visa debit cards issued by Chunghwa Post to Google Pay as a payment option, the state-run postal service operator said yesterday.
Chunghwa Post Department and Savings director Chen Tung-liang (陳棟樑) said the postal company’s Visa debit cards can already be added as a payment option on nine Taiwanese digital payment platforms.
Transactions in the postal company’s checking accounts made through those nine platforms had already exceeded NT$12.4 billion (US$407.16 million) per month, Chen said.
However, the company has yet to work with international digital payment platforms, he said.
“We are conducting a trial run with Google Pay. Our Visa debit cards are expected to be a payment option after the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of January,” he said.
The postal company would sign a similar deal with Apple Pay in the second half of next year, sources familiar with the matter said.
Chunghwa Post has issued 4.66 million Visa debit cards, company data showed.
Separately, Chunghwa Post has proposed that its year-end cash bonus for employees at the Lunar New Year holiday would be about 4.4 months of their salaries, despite the company’s personnel costs rising dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With support from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, we are hoping to receive 4.4 months worth of wages to give as year-end cash bonuses,” Chunghwa Post president Chiang Rui-tang (江瑞堂) said.
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