Major Smith Appointed Postmaster General
The Ministry of Finance today announced that Major [Retired] Allan Wayne B. Smith, E.D. has been appointed as the new Postmaster General, effectively immediately.
Major Smith retired from the Bermuda Regiment in 2008 after serving for 22 years. He has held a variety of positions in both the Civil Service and in the private sector, such as: Director of Labour and Training; Policy Analyst; Coordinator, Security Services; Executive Director for the Bermuda Alliance for Tourism, Aide de Camp to His Excellency the Governor.
He has also worked at the Bermuda Department of Tourism, in Banking [both BNTB and Bank of Bermuda], wireless technology, information technology, formerly for the Ministry of Works and Engineering [now the Ministry of Public Works] and in real estate.
Major Smith has a Masters Degree in Business Administration, a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and has attended numerous courses, seminars, and professional development conferences.
Major Smith has been the Acting Postmaster General since November 1, 2011 and as part of his role as Postmaster General; he will lead the reinvention and restructuring of the Bermuda Post Office.
Well done and congrats Wayne! Good luck in the new role.
Hopefully Flip Flop Furbert does not also take credit for this?
so what does he know about Philately?
Well done Wayne!!!
Congrats Wayne!
@Nuffin but da truth, we can always count on you for some negativity.
Congratulations Major.
Great Job Wayne!
Congratulations Wayne!!!!! I’m so proud of you and very Happy for you. You deserve it!!!
Post Office requires a Business Development,Logistics and Marketing department to work with private sector and government in generating more $$$ for the economy, = need innovation(s)
From one dictator who didn’t have a glue to this pin head !! The final nail in the bermuda post office. This man and his whole management team, along with the oba are hell bent on closing the post office, god help us all.
Go back to labor and training wayne…sugestion, let someone who knows about a post office run the post office. Wayne smith, dr.simmons,keith wainwright,sam brangman,Richard hazaelwood and sheridan ming are a bunch of over paid bell hops.
Congratulations my friend! Just know that this is only the beginning. You have much to do, change and improve. I wish you all the best.
Maria
P.S.
‘postal’ is that you Vernon spitting your venom???
the postal service does not make us no money in a lot of other islands there is no postal delivery at all
dont be so dumb lady !!! if they got rid of all those over paid dummies, govt could save at least $750,000. by the vernon has more knowledge about that post office than all of them combinded.
Congratulations Wayne. So proud of you, all the best.
Safe Wayne – gone from one obsolete organization to another.
I agree with you jim
Wow got to know wayne when we was in the regiment!this should be just the person for the job! he got us lost on a 10 mile hike, so getting things lost also like our mail should come easy??
As a long time Postal employee I must say that I take exception to some of the comments concerning the situation with the Post office. I have been a postal worker for a long time; so I do have a perspective.
First concerning the current postal administration; they can not be wholly blame for the state of the post office. These are in fact the result of decisions made as far back as under the rule of the United Bermuda Party government. In terms of competition I have serve under at least six Postmasters Generals and one in particular is still upset that the than UBP government allowed the Fedexs; mail Box unlimits to operated in Bermuda in competition with the Post Office on such favourable terms which in fact under mined the competitiveness of the Post Office. The post office has lost a lot a business; particular in the mailing of parcels and such like and the importation of the same. I am not saying that the post office should be given an close market; what I am saying this was an opportunity missed on the part of the post office which at that time the government was not thinking in terms of making it competitive. The idea that you can get away with closing the the delivery aspect of Bermuda’s postal system; is unlikely to be excepted by Bermudians as a whole; Mainly because unlike many countries who don’t have a tradition of home mail delivery; Bermuda has had such a system going back to the early beginnings of settlement. Bermudians are just not going to get use to going to a central point to pick up thier mail. However we should complete; We should adopt the idea of delivering parcels and packages to home adressses; In fact what ever our
competitors are doing; we should do and do so better. All is not lost for the post office in my opinion; we still have the links not only in Bermuda but world wide. We should take advantage of that and put ourselves in a better position to complete.