Q-Post and FedEx yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding for the launch of Qpex, the new courier service to be offered by Q-post.
Q-post, the country’s national postal and courier service, hopes that consumers will stand to gain from the signing of the agreement between Q-Post and FedEx, which will enable Q-Post to handle the services currently being delivered by the global logistics giant at what it described as “rates lower than what is currently available in the market”.
Q-Post chairman and chief executive Ali Mohamed Al Ali said the new service, likely to be launched in two months, will have the assurance of on-time delivery, insurance and customer satisfaction.
“FedEx is the biggest logistical and express courier service in the world, and we are pleased to be working in partnership with them,” said Al Ali, adding, “we will deliver express and courier services in locations such as Al Khor on behalf of FedEx, because we already have post offices there, while they provide us with training for our personnel and software to further improve our services.”
“FedEx has the biggest airline fleet in the world, and using their wide network, we will be able to provide customers, both individuals and companies, quick access through our offices and own online web portal,” added Al Ali
The service would be initially available only at the main post office and the Teyseer Post Office, and will then be extended to the rest of the post offices.

Qatar will host the 25th Universal Postal Union Congress (UPU) in 2012. This came in a vote held in Geneva during he 24th Universal Postal Union Congress. More than 180 participating countries voted for Qatar for efforts being made by its delegation headed by Ali Mohammed Al Ali, Chairman and General Manager of the General Postal Corporation (Q-Post). Qatar also is elected as member for the UPU Council of Administration (CA) for the first time. The UPU CA consists of 41 elected countries members as per geographical world groupings. Following the announcement of Qatar winning the hosting of the next 25th coming congress, Al Ali expressed overwhelming pleasure over this great achievement, stating that Qatar bidding file was a satisfactory one and met all conditions set by the UPU international rules to host such a universal gathering most important of which are stability, security availability of infrastructure and services including health, transportation and housing.

Qatar has formally submitted its bid for hosting the Universal Postal Union's (UPU) World Postal Congress in 2012.Qatar's ambassador to Switzerland, Abdullah Falah al-Dossari, made the announcement at a meeting, hosted by the embassy in Berne last week.Giving details of the meeting, Q-Post chairman Ali Mohamed al-Ali said the country's bid for hosting the 25th World Postal Congress had the backing of a large number of countries in the GCC, and Arab regions and also a number of its friends spread through out the world.The Q-Post chairman recalled that the UAE had made an unsuccessful bid for hosting the 23rd World Postal Congress in 2004. Though it lost the race to Nairobi, ultimately Romanian capital Bucharest was the venue for the 2004 congress.Queried if any other country had made a bid for hosting the 2012 congress. Asked about Qatar's chances of winning the bid, the chairman said he is optimistic, Al-Ali said al-Dossari had made a presentation on the country and highlighted the number of meetings, conferences, and exhibitions that the country had played host to in the past one decade.The chairman said the Qatar team had given a clear picture of the facilities that the country has for hosting such a major meeting, where there would be delegates from at least 191 countries.Qatar Airways too made a presentation on the country's national carrier and its network at the meeting held in Berne. Besides al-Ali, the Q-Post delegation comprised IT manager George Scott Campbell, public relations manager Abdullah Shlash al-Hajiri, head of Quality management centre Catina Aghyan, and head of international relations Jassim al-Malki.A host of top officials of UPU, led by its director general Edouard Dayan and deputy director general Guozhong Huang.