- Western Union will work alongside Australia Post to help the latter’s customers make more efficient money transfers at times that suit them and their needs – across the day or week.
- Australia Post is the fifth international postal company that Western Union has struck deals with as part of a push to make it easier for individuals to send money around the world.
- “With the expansion of our relationship with Australia Post we are continuing our recent momentum powering retail players to succeed in the digital space and unlock new growth opportunities,” said a senior figure at the company.
Online money transfer company Western Union has confirmed a new pairing with a major Australian company.
Australia Post will become the fifth national postal company around the world to join Western Union in its efforts to expand its online money transfer functions.
The UK’s Post Office Ltd and the Russian Post Bank are both already on the remittance leader'sremittance leader's books.
Postepay in Italy has also partnered with Western Union, as has La Banque Postale in France.
It is now possible for Australia Post customers to send cash around the world any time of the day and on any day during the week thanks to the link with Western Union.
It will be possible to do this online through an easy-to-use website, the company said in a press release.
It is the latest development in a relationship between Australia Post and Western Union that has been in existence for almost two decades.
In a statement, a senior leader at Western Union said that the company was looking forward to growing its platform and building a stronger user base.
Jean Claude Farah, who is president of the Western Union Global Network, added that the links with global postal entities were helping to achieve this goal.
“We are focused on continually enhancing our platform and expanding our reach to better connect people, business and communities around the world,” he said.
“Our growing partnerships with national postal networks are part of this commitment, and we are pleased to link our leading digital cross-border capabilities to bring real worldwide connectivity with a few taps to the global customers of our postal network partners.”
He also said that the way that the Australia Post relationship worked would mean that retailers and others would be able to grow their businesses.
“With expansion of our relationship with Australia Post we are continuing our recent momentum powering retail players to succeed in the digital space and unlock new growth opportunities so that together, we can serve as an economic force for our global customers,” he said.
Western Union is one of the world’s leading providers of money transfer services.
It operates in over 200 nations and territories and in more than 130 worldwide currencies.
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