Comments on: Some locally-relevant services by Pakistan Post – slightly innovative too http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/06/18/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/ Coffee Sessions for the Industry! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:06:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Badsra http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/06/18/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/comment-page-1/#comment-2330 Badsra Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:32:40 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/06/17/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/#comment-2330 About email conversion to snailmail, I wrote a <a href="http://indiaontheworld.blogspot.com/2007/07/here-comes-postman.html" rel="nofollow">post </a>on similar lines. Not sure of the pricing for this service in Pakistan, but India charges something like 15INR per page of email. Wouldn't it be better to give the service for free and maybe add a flyer to the snailmail? Or a mail-order catalog perhaps? That would cover the cost of printing and the two-rupee stamp on a snailmail. About email conversion to snailmail, I wrote a post on similar lines. Not sure of the pricing for this service in Pakistan, but India charges something like 15INR per page of email.

Wouldn’t it be better to give the service for free and maybe add a flyer to the snailmail? Or a mail-order catalog perhaps? That would cover the cost of printing and the two-rupee stamp on a snailmail.

]]> By: What hitech Entrepreneurs can learn from a Sabzi Waala : Green & White http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/06/18/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 What hitech Entrepreneurs can learn from a Sabzi Waala : Green & White Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:02:17 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/06/17/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/#comment-1566 [...] For hitech ventures, find out what people want to pay premium for before you make yourself into a hitech venture in the first place. The example I give is “What if your consumers want to pay premium for paying utility bills in an easier way? One option is to build a highly-scalable mobile transaction management system running over ATM networks. The other is to do what Pakistan Post has done“ [...] [...] For hitech ventures, find out what people want to pay premium for before you make yourself into a hitech venture in the first place. The example I give is “What if your consumers want to pay premium for paying utility bills in an easier way? One option is to build a highly-scalable mobile transaction management system running over ATM networks. The other is to do what Pakistan Post has done“ [...]

]]> By: On Strategy for Technology Companies : Green & White http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/06/18/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 On Strategy for Technology Companies : Green & White Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:21:43 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/06/17/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/#comment-1563 [...] 1- The resulting products will typically not be localized enough. Do people in Pakistan really want a mobile transaction engine for automated utility bill payments over an ATM network, or do they just want a friendly Pakistan Post? [...] [...] 1- The resulting products will typically not be localized enough. Do people in Pakistan really want a mobile transaction engine for automated utility bill payments over an ATM network, or do they just want a friendly Pakistan Post? [...]

]]> By: Kashif http://greenwhite.org/blog/2007/06/18/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Kashif Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:26:56 +0000 http://greenwhite.org/2007/06/17/some-locally-relevant-services-by-pakistan-post-slightly-innovative-too/#comment-1449 Changing logo and uniform won't serve any purpose unless the whole decayed system is not changed. I have seen number of their branches here and they are still living in the '80s using rotten manual registers for daily transactions. Changing logo and uniform won’t serve any purpose unless the whole decayed system is not changed. I have seen number of their branches here and they are still living in the ’80s using rotten manual registers for daily transactions.

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