FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF E-COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE OF POSTAL ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

The role of information technologies has changed business method face to face and has created suitable conditions for further development of e-com­merce, as a part of e-business. The main subject of this paper is connection between e-commerce and postal services, because the main postal activities are traditio­nal. However, occurance of global changes on the market has changed also the postal system, demanding of it modernization and expansion. In order to future develop­ment of the postal system, this paper represents digital platform .POST. It gives examples of the world’s postal services which make their activities succesfull, postal system in Serbia and it represents future posibbilities for development of the global postal system.