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Customer care - the heart of EMS

EMS customers deserve excellent service when sending items internationally. Each year EMS Cooperative members’ customer service performance is measured. Only when EMS member postal operators achieve the high-standards set out in the EMS Cooperative's Business Plan will they receive an EMS customer care award in recognition of the quality of their customer service call centre.

The Cooperative's EMS Customer Care Awards recognise and reward outstanding EMS service. 

Congratulations to the 2022 EMS customer care award winners

The customer care system, i-Care, was successfully launched in July 2020 as a centralized UPU-owned solution and the sole customer care system to be used for EMS-related inquiries. The evaluation of the i-Care 2022 data and eligibility criteria resulted in the following list of the member operators that provided excellent customer care in 2022.

The 2022 customer care award winners (ranking based on customer service response quality) are:

1. Benin
2. Togo
3. Oman
4. Azerbaijan
5. Zambia
6. United Arab Emirates
7. Algeria
8. Qatar

9. Myanmar
10. Viet Nam
11. Macao (China)
12. Cambodia
13. Singapore
14. Saudi Arabia
15. Egypt

16. Bangladesh
17. Georgia
18. Ukraine
19. North Macedonia
20. Malaysia
21. Brunei Darussalam
22. Kuwait.

2022 EMS Customer Care Awards winners

EMS Customer Care awards criteria 2021-2022

Criteria

Based on customer care performance over the preceding year, EMS operators are eligible for an EMS customer care award in recognition of the quality of their customer service call centres. 

To be eligible for an EMS customer care award, candidates must meet all the following criteria: 

  1. Member of the EMS Cooperative;
  2. Operating the customer care system each month of the year;
  3. Replying on time: 98% (or higher); 
  4. As requesting and replying partners, inquiry resolution after first level: 70% (or higher);
  5. Workflows, requested and replied, resolved within 15 working days: 90% (or higher);
  6. Average time to open requests and replies received: three working hours (or less);
  7. Have no outstanding inbound inquiries.

Ranking

Customer service response quality is a combination of three performance indicators, whose weighted value is used to gain an overall score to rank the operators. Indicators:   

  • On-time reply: weighted criteria = 50%
  • Inquiry resolution after first level of reply: weighted criteria = 25%
  • Workflow resolution within 15 working days: weighted criteria = 25%
  • Customer service response quality: weighted criteria = 100%

EMS customer care award criteria 2023

Based on customer care performance over the preceding year, EMS operators are eligible for an EMS customer care award in recognition of the quality of their customer service call centres.

Eligibility criteria 2023

To be eligible for an EMS customer care award in 2023, candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • Member of the EMS Cooperative;
  • Operating the EMS customer service system each month of the year;
  • Replying on time: 98% (or higher);
  • As requesting and replying partners, inquiry resolution after first level: 73% (or higher);
  • Workflows, sent and replied to, resolved within 10 working days: 92% (or higher);
  • Average time to open requests and replies received: 3 working hours (or less);
  • Have no outstanding inbound inquiries.

Only those EMS Cooperative members that meet all the criteria will be eligible for an award.

Ranking

Customer service response quality (CSRQ), a key performance indicator and ranking criterion for customer service, remains a combination of three performance indicators, whose weighted value below is used to gain an overall score to rank operators:

  • On-time reply: weighted criteria = 50%
  • Inquiry resolution after first level of reply: weighted criteria = 25%
  • Workflow resolution within 10 working days: weighted criteria = 25%
  • Customer service response quality: weighted criteria = 100%

Previous winners

2021

  1. Bahrain
  2. China (People's Rep.)
  3. United Arab Emirates
  4. Macao (China)
  5. Qatar
  6. Mauritius
  7. Singapore
  8. Algeria
  9. Ghana
  10. Slovenia
  11. Egypt
  12. Cambodia
  13. Latvia
  14. Viet Nam
  15. Norway
  16. Bhutan
  17. Madagascar
  18. Cape Verde
  19. Georgia
  20. Benin
  21. Saudi Arabia​.

2020

  1. Algeria
  2. Bhutan
  3. Bulgaria (Rep.)
  4. Cambodia
  5. Cape Verde
  6. China (People’s Rep.)
  7. Egypt
  8. Georgia
  9. Macao, China
  10. Malaysia
  11. North Macedonia
  12. Norway
  13. Saudi Arabia
  14. Singapore
  15. Viet Nam.

2019

  1. Algeria
  2. Azerbaijan
  3. Belarus
  4. Bhutan
  5. Burundi
  6. Cambodia
  7. China (People's Rep)
  8. Georgia
  9. Hong Kong, China
  10. Italy
  11. Korea (Rep)
  12. Macao, China
  13. Mongolia
  14. Samoa
  15. Saudi Arabia
  16. Thailand
  17. United Arab Emirates
  18. Viet Nam.

2018

  1. Algeria
  2. Azerbaijan 
  3. Bulgaria (Rep.)
  4. Cambodia
  5. China (People’s Rep.)
  6. Georgia
  7. Ghana
  8. Hong Kong (China)
  9. Korea (Rep.)
  10. Luxembourg
  11. Macao (China)
  12. Madagascar
  13. Mongolia
  14. Paraguay
  15. Samoa
  16. Saudi Arabia
  17. Singapore
  18. Thailand
  19. Togo
  20. United Arab Emirates
  21. Viet Nam.

2017 

  1. Azerbaijan
  2. Cambodia
  3. Cameroon
  4. China (People’s Rep.)
  5. Ghana
  6. Hong Kong (China)
  7. Korea (Rep.)
  8. Luxembourg
  9. Macao (China)
  10. Madagascar
  11. Mauritius
  12. Singapore
  13. Thailand
  14. Viet Nam
  15. United Arab Emirates.

2016
Cambodia; Luxembourg; Romania - small group award
Macao (China); Korea (Rep.); Singapore; Thailand; Viet Nam - medium group award
China (People’s Rep.) - large group award

2015 

Mauritius; Iceland - small group award
Kenya; Korea (Rep.); Singapore  - medium group award

2014
Poland - small group award
United Arab Emirates - medium group award
Japan - large group award

2013
Azerbaijan - medium group award
Hong Kong (China)- medium group award
Japan - large group award

2021 EMS Customer Care Awards winners

2020 EMS customer care award winners

2019 EMS customer care award winners

2018 EMS customer care awards