The role of postal and telecommunication services in socio-economic development in Hoa Binh province - 2

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When the productive forces were not yet developed, products in the form of objects such as agricultural products, products of industries, etc. played a direct fundamental role in social life. Therefore, their production was the primary concern of society. With the development of productive forces, the quantity and variety of intangible products gradually increased, not only playing a role in meeting the increasing individual consumption needs of society, but also having an increasingly large impact on industries producing tangible products. Therefore, the growth rate of service activities tended to be proportional to the level of development of social production, and service industries were also formed and continuously expanded under the impact of the social division of labor.

Nowadays, there are many ways to classify services. According to the origin of the product, services are classified by industry and field such as transportation services.

Transportation, communications, trade, health care, education, tourism, banking and finance, state management, etc. According to the socio-economic nature of services in a market economy, we can distinguish between market services and non-market services. Non-market services are services provided free of charge or at prices so low that they do not cover the costs of producing them.

Production, business and services have a close impact on each other. Services are a condition for the development of production and business. The development of reasonable and high-quality services is a manifestation of a developed economy and a civilized society. Due to its great economic and social significance, service activities have become an important economic sector, holding a large position in the economic structure of developed countries.

Services are necessary and inevitable activities arising from the requirements of production and business activities, social management and human life needs. Services produce conditions to serve social activities and human life. Service products are also goods bought and sold on the market. Services are both the cause and the result of production and business activities. The more developed the society is, the more the service production sector tends to develop. In the modern market economy, especially the knowledge economy, in GDP and social labor structure, national economic structure, services are an invisible commodity that accounts for an increasingly high proportion. Services are an endless source of wealth, making the people rich, the country strong, the society fair, democratic and civilized.

1.1.1.2 Concept and types of postal and telecommunications services

Concept of postal and telecommunications services

Postal and telecommunications services include postal services and telecommunications services. Postal services are the postal sector responsible for delivering letters, newspapers, money, and parcels. Postal services were initially services for transmitting information content through means such as envelopes and publications. With the development of the postal sector, postal services have increasingly expanded to include services for delivering postal items, parcels, and goods through means of transport by human power, animals, and other machines, etc.

Telecommunication is the communication with distant places. Telecommunication (from the Greek tele, meaning far, and the Latin communicare, meaning to inform) generally describes all forms of exchanging information over a certain distance without having to physically carry the information (e.g., a letter). Visual signals were used in the 18th century, such as the semaphore, a system of representing letters by placing hands or two flags in a certain position, and the heliograph, a device for transmitting information by reflecting sunlight.

In a narrower sense, telecommunications is now understood as a way of exchanging data through electrical, electronic and other modern technologies. The first telecommunications services in this sense were telegraph and telephone. Today, telecommunications equipment is a basic component of the socio-economic information infrastructure system.

According to the provisions of Article 37 - Decree No. 109/CP, telecommunications services are understood as services of transmitting, storing and providing information in the form of transmitting, transmitting and receiving symbols, signals, data, writing, sounds and images through the public telecommunications network provided by telecommunications service providers.

From the above presentations, it can be affirmed that postal and telecommunications services are the inevitable result arising from the need to produce methods and means of information transmission to serve production and business activities, social management and human life needs. The process of information transmission is not only often associated with the process of production and consumption of products, or between those processes. It is determined by the quantity of time and space of information transmission. The process of information transmission was initially carried out through postal services, but under the impact of research and application of science and technology, telecommunications services have been formed and developed rapidly with many rich and diverse types. Postal and telecommunications services represent the relationship between the subjects providing and receiving information transmission services through the activities of the postal and telecommunications industry.

Types of postal and telecommunications services

First, postal services: Postal services include basic postal services, additional postal services, and public postal services:

Basic postal services are performed by receiving, sending, and delivering postal items and parcels through the public postal network, specialized network, and delivery network. Postal items include letters (except letters carried out by postal service enterprises), postcards, small packages, printed packages, and educational materials for the blind sent through the public postal network. Parcels include packaged goods weighing no more than fifty kilograms (50 kg) sent through the public postal network.

Additional postal services are services provided in addition to basic postal services to meet higher quality requirements of users. The State management agency of post and telecommunications shall prescribe and promulgate a specific list of postal services specified in this article.