Reinventing the Post: Building a Sustainable Future Hardback

Reinventing thePost: Building a Sustainable Future is the third book in this series whichexplore how the postal sector is changing in order to meet new challenges.

Thisvolume addresses the fundamental issues which face the sector, not just tosurvive but to have sustainable economic business models that will secure afuture for the industry and continuing work for its employees.

This in turnbenefits other stakeholders and society as a whole whilst also taking care ofthe planet by making less use of scarce resources and reducing negativeenvironmental impacts.  The postal sector has an enormous impact on the dailylife of nations, businesses and households reaching right across countries,lubricating economies, providing universal services accessible to rural andcity communities and employing millions of people.  When taken together with related businessesand sectors, it has a vast daily ‘footprint’ across the globe, covering everyaspect of life.  So much so that it can,almost uniquely and by itself, be a very powerful agent for change and arguablya vehicle with more traction and prospect of moving things forward thaninter-governmental initiatives that rely for their momentum on politicalagreements to aspirational targets.

If the sector collectively changes itsthinking and behaviour, it can take its employees, customers and suppliers withit, along with all the people and activities associated with them.

So this volume ismore than showcasing perspectives from the industry to stimulate and challengethinking about sustainability, it is also a call to action for the whole of thesector to play a major global leadership role in facing the very realexistential threats to our planet and life on earth.  This will take much more radical thinking andimagination than we have applied to reinventing the post or developing new businessstrategies – it requires us to face some very fundamental questions about ourvery existence.