Nigerians react to whether or not the advent of social media has rendered Nigeria Postal Services, NIPOST redundant.
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Before the advent of social media, the likes of facebook, tweeter, linkedin, badoo among others, sending letters, parcels, documents were done through NIPOST . However, in the past 10 years, with the advent of internet and social media platforms, has the use of NIPOST service increase or declined? Here are what Nigerians say:
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Pastor Segun Adegbiji in his opinion said, "there is no doubt that the internet has developed. I visited a site and I discovered that 2.4billion people already have access to the internet. Even in advanced countries where the level of patronage of the internet and online is higher than in Nigeria, there are still postal services.
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Despite this, the postal services are aware of the enormous challenges facing them. Although there is prompt delivery of your documents which cannot be sent online. For instance, in United Kingdom, you can be sure of getting your documents within the expected time. There is faithfulness on the part of the postal services. So the internet is not supposed to replace the postal services but to complement it. Despite the fact the internet is faster, there are lots of limitations.
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Using the social media, there is intimacy and the speed of sending messages is there. In developed countries, news break on tweeter. Anyone who gets stories on tweeter is sure of getting the story across to thousands at a time with 140 characters.