August 2019 Secretary General’s Message HEADLINE NEWS Dear Colleague Upcoming Events – Schedule on upcoming courses Half of the year 2019 passed already. Bangladesh: New Director General We are working on the preparation of -Korea Post is planning to apply blockchain technology to its billing the APPU EC Meeting 2019 to be held system in Tokyo in September. We appreciate Thailand: no-go list for the strong support and kind Australia: Digital iD™ receives highest level of identity accreditation cooperation from the APPU Member New Zealand: Hauora Honey-Opening the gates to China countries, especially the Host Country Japan LIN Hongliang China: partners with Huawei to accelerate its IT digital transformation

Hauora Honey New Zealand-Opening Korea Post is planning to apply Blockchain the gate to China Technology to its billing System "NZ Post’s Tmall Global store is a very fast and cost effective way of getting into the Chinese market." initiative is a collaboration between the South Korean Now, New Zealand Post is giving Kiwi exporters a government and local private companies including a a mayor South Korean lower-cost way to reach Chinese consumers– an blockchain Cookie Time company is an iconic Coinplug Kiwi brand,and global loved IT The company The The NHN. Operating under online storefront for selling quality and authentic the authority of the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Korea Post will build a New Zealand products on Alibaba Group’s Tmall blockchain-powered payment method incorporated in its postal service, using Global platform as called ‘Gift from New Zealand’ the blockchain expertise of Coinplug and NHN’s payment technology. The (Xinxilan). Hauora Honey is one of the quality pilot project will reportedly launch in the city of Naju, which received the title brands available on New Zealand Post’s Tmall of “Innovative City” and has attracted a number of public offices to move from Global store. Seoul. The postal service is considering to apply this technology to overseas remittances. Daily orders made on Tmall Global are dispatched from New Zealand Post’s Auckland depot and reach Australia Post’s Digital ID Digital iD™ receives highest level the Chinese customer within 5-10 working days. The goods are tracked and customers can easily of identity accreditation check delivery progress through China Post’s EMS Digital iD™ service has received the highest level of accreditation for an Identity website Service Provider by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), providing customers and businesses alike added confidence when completing their identity transactions. Australia Post is also the first provider of identity services in the country to be accredited under the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF) thatDigital consumers iD™ Digital can iD™use to provides verify their the core identity digital when capability they interact that with governmentunderpins Australia departments. Post’s Australiaidentity solutions. Post is one The of combinationAustralia’s mos of t experienced providerstrusted digital of identity capabilities services, plus completing Australia’s 8 largest million reta identityil network checks, 1.9 million passportallows Australia applications, Post to and support more allthan Australians 2 million employmentto connect with checks vital every year.governmenthave undergone services. majorThe TDIF changes accreditation as follows: demonstrates 1Australia- Modernization Post’s commitment of 16 post offices to privacy in Kabu andl citysecurity, in accordance and gives with international standardsconsumers and and connecting businesses it added to fiber confidence optics; when using Digital 2iD™- Installation for their identity of parcel transactions. locker in central post offices; China Post partners with Huawei to 3- Installation of digital boxes in central post office; and 4- DesigningThailand Post’s headquarters no-go andlist building track and trace accelerate its IT digital transformation centre. Kwanjai has started her professional career in administration after Thailand Post have issued the guidelines after police found China Post and Huawei will graduating from her Master Degree, majoring in Business Administration more that drug traffickers are increasingly resorting to postal jointly establish a laboratory for than 10 years ago services to send narcotics to their customers, after several new technology application major drug shipments, being transported in vehicles, were “China Post·Huawei New intercepted by police. Technology Application Lab”, Senders are required to show their ID cards (or passports), and CCTV systems have while the Postal Savings Bank of been installed in all post offices. There are also X-ray scanners to look for explosives China, affiliated to China Post, and flammable materials as part of the increased security measures. There are seven will collaborate with Huawei to types of items prohibited from being sent by mail; Live animals, narcotics, build an innovation centre “Post Pornographic material, explosives or flammable substances, unsheathed knives or Savings Bank·Huawei Joint other sharp objects, banknotes and Fake products which infringe intellectual Innovation Centre”. property rights