snoop1130 Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Speed post By Chalinee Thirasupa The Nation An army of postmen on Wednesday pose for the camera during a press conference to unveil the 100 Thailand Post motorcycles used in post package delivery that have been upgraded. Each motorcycle now is equipped with a 148-litre fibreglass plastic box on pillion plus two waterproof sidebags to ensure minimum or no damage to the items. These vehicles will be on streets of Bangkok and major cities in July. This vehicle upgrade is to cater to growing e-commerce and in particular items like passports, medicines and medical supplies and is part of the company’s Thailand 4.0-era aspiration. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30347689 -- © Copyright The Nation 2018-6-13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted June 13, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2018 Good for them, living upcountry I have always found Thailand Post to be very reliable. Deliveries right to the door, no having to wander down to a communal box. Better service than I got in Canada. Maybe things are much different in the Bangkok conurbation.........? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadbury Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 33 minutes ago, snoop1130 said: This vehicle upgrade is to cater to growing e-commerce So this is the growing e-commerce Prayut Chan-o-cha Thailand 4.0 roll out. Must be some sort of sick joke. With due respect to the well intentioned boys in their colourful uniforms Thailand 4.0 has a long way to go to get beyond a junta dream. I hope for Thailand's sake this story doesn't make the international news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Will it make them deliver ordinary mail better though? If it's not sent EMS, the standard mail (for us) gets delivered when they have a batch big enough. We're in a village, on a main road, so the postman goes past everyday. This is the number of items we've had delivered at one time: 13, 7, 3, 1, 3, 6, 7, 16 - every two or three weeks. (sometimes get two month's worth of AIS/TOT bills, etc., delivered in one drop.) Maybe if these new boxes can hold more, we might only get a delivery every two months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 The are carrying quite a load ,not easy to get through the traffic, with those big bags on the side,they don't look very happy,no Thai smiles anywhere. regards Worgeordie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiKiwi Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Did this really require such extensive press coverage and such a fanfare? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damrongsak Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Lame. They need to add a pizza warming oven like the new Domino's delivery cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hansnl Posted June 14, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2018 11 hours ago, Cadbury said: So this is the growing e-commerce Prayut Chan-o-cha Thailand 4.0 roll out. Must be some sort of sick joke. With due respect to the well intentioned boys in their colourful uniforms Thailand 4.0 has a long way to go to get beyond a junta dream. I hope for Thailand's sake this story doesn't make the international news. Where are you talking about? The e-commerce is growing, Thailand Post is reacting, and you are blabbering about the Government? These bikes have nothing whatsoever to do with Thailand 4.0 but everything with the growing amount of parcels. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somchai Logic Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Great, every one of these muppets will consider themselves even more vindicated in driving like complete speed morons 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) Thailand 4.0: we’ve got bikes...they’re red! Edited June 14, 2018 by Bluespunk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 59 minutes ago, hansnl said: Where are you talking about? The e-commerce is growing, Thailand Post is reacting, and you are blabbering about the Government? These bikes have nothing whatsoever to do with Thailand 4.0 but everything with the growing amount of parcels. While you may be right, the article says differently 13 hours ago, snoop1130 said: This vehicle upgrade is to cater to growing e-commerce and in particular items like passports, medicines and medical supplies and is part of the company’s Thailand 4.0-era aspiration. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AhFarangJa Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 14 hours ago, bluesofa said: Will it make them deliver ordinary mail better though? If it's not sent EMS, the standard mail (for us) gets delivered when they have a batch big enough. We're in a village, on a main road, so the postman goes past everyday. This is the number of items we've had delivered at one time: 13, 7, 3, 1, 3, 6, 7, 16 - every two or three weeks. (sometimes get two month's worth of AIS/TOT bills, etc., delivered in one drop.) Maybe if these new boxes can hold more, we might only get a delivery every two months? These could be next weeks winning lottery numbers......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 almost big enough to begin sub-contracting to take live ducks'n'chickens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 15 hours ago, ratcatcher said: Good for them, living upcountry I have always found Thailand Post to be very reliable. Deliveries right to the door, no having to wander down to a communal box. Better service than I got in Canada. Maybe things are much different in the Bangkok conurbation.........? No, things are as new perfect as can be expected here also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Weird Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, KiwiKiwi said: Did this really require such extensive press coverage and such a fanfare? Why shouldn't it? It's called PR. Edited June 14, 2018 by Just Weird 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 16 hours ago, ratcatcher said: Good for them, living upcountry I have always found Thailand Post to be very reliable. Deliveries right to the door, no having to wander down to a communal box. Better service than I got in Canada. Maybe things are much different in the Bangkok conurbation.........? Here in my Bangkok suburb (greater BKK nothaburi) post is super reliable. I almost never lose a package. So Yea i have great faith in the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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