Collect IPA business forms at post offices

RURAL dwellers can now use the local post office to lodge application forms they need to send to the Investment Promotion Authority.
The authority and Post PNG last year signed an agreement in which Post PNG will receive the registration forms and other compliance forms, including payments, from the rural people at any of their offices.
These forms will be delivered to the authority through the Express Mail Service (EMS).
The programme was launched at the Lorengau Post PNG office in Manus.
The agreement includes the training of post office staff by the Authority on the registering and receipting of application forms at the post office counters.
The first training in Manus coincided with the launching.
Authority managing director Ivan Pomaleu said the programme was particularly important for the rural people because it took months at times for them to receive their IPA documents and responses.
Pomaleu said the arrangement with Post PNG Ltd was a win-win situation for the two organisations.
The Authority wants its services readily accessible to the rural people in the remotest post offices to avoid “small people spending their finances and time to travel all the way to Port Moresby”.
Lorengau post office’s retail manageress Lolo Wartovo said it was a new approach in terms of service delivery.
Manus provincial administrator Kule’en Hamou said the initiative would assist the province meet its target by 2030.
The pilot project post offices are Lorengau, Kavieng, Kimbe, Alotau, Mendi, Aitape, Kai­nantu and Kiunga.