Especial post services will be provided virtually in the form of “Tapin Post Virtual Counter”, which is a measure taken by some youth in a knowledge-based companies to bring full facilities of post offices to people’s home.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, these days, when staying at home is recommended, this measure can address a number of concerns about sending mail so that you can stay home and easily receive what a postal service office has to offer, and track the status of your shipment until reaching the recipient.

Providing post services virtually in the form of “Tapin Post Virtual Counter” is realized by Tose’e Tejarat Hooshmand Maad knowledge-based company supported by the knowledge-based economy and culture-building technologies development headquarter.

Mehrdad Malekmohammadi, the CEO of this company, expressed: this knowledge-based platform has been finalized with the cooperation of the national post office to bring full services of a post office to people’s homes. In addition, virtual businesses can use these postal services across the country.

He added: the system is connected to all postal offices of the country, where the process of registering and issuing a bill of lading is done online. After registering all the shipments, they will be collected and sent daily by the postal company from the sender"s place throughout the country. This will allow 60,000 postal items to be served per month, as well as 300,000 rail mailings per year via the virtual post office counter.

He also asserted: in addition to reducing costs, receiving services from this counter will result in the elimination of referrals to post offices in the country. Of course, Tapin Virtual Post Office has other special features such as collecting postal packages from the sending place by postal agents all over the country, calculating the rate online (based on the list of postal service tariffs), issuing online barcode or postal tracking code, issuing standard postal invoices online and announcing the tracking code via an SMS.

According to the report, companies and businesses can refer to the system for free membership (http:www.tapin.ir).