How Ukraine Delivers the Mail During Wartime
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
If you order something from Ukraine right now, be it a T-shirt or a vintage Christmas ornament, chances are it will arrive on time and in good shape. Not only is the country's mail service still operating, even as it grapples with an invasion by Russia, but the role of the post office has also changed. The mail has become a lifeline for Ukrainians who rely on it to receive pension payments, medicine, or to run online businesses as domestic jobs get disrupted. So how exactly is the Ukrainian mail system working right now? What operational and logistical changes has it had to make to keep going, and what does the service's future look like? In this episode, we speak with Igor Smelyansky, the CEO of Ukrposhta, about delivering the mail during a time of war.
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| 1:12.6 | Joe do you ever order stuff online? |
| 1:14.8 | Yesterday just like Amazon day-to-day stuff. |
| 1:18.8 | I mean like do you go out looking for interesting things to buy online? |
| 1:22.0 | Every once in a while I get the |
| 1:23.0 | inch you know what I bought yesterday? What a guitar? No though I have bought guitars |
| 1:27.7 | online too many. A hat from the 90s from the Bureau of Reclamation celebrating like the 50th |
| 1:36.7 | anniversary of the building of the Hoover Dam. Wait and I'm gonna wear it. I want one. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah it's a really cool I'll show it to you after this it's really cool. It's really cool looking. I am very jealous. Yeah, it's a good one. All right. Well, I buy stuff all the time my husband does a similar thing and buys lots of vintage, not baseball hats, but rugby shirts. |
| 1:58.0 | Oh, that's cool. And the other day he ordered a rugby shirt off of eBay and it showed up a few weeks later and to both of our |
| 2:05.9 | surprise it had come from Ukraine and specifically a place called Zapperosia. |
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