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D UNIVERSAL Jj POSTAL UPU International Bureau To: Weltpoststrasse 4 3015 BERNE — Union member countries SWITZERLAND — Designated operators T+41 313503111 F +41 31 3503110 For information to: www.upu.int — Restricted unions Contact: Ms Magali Vifian T +41 31 350 3601 Berne, 25 July 2022 magali.vifian@upuint Reference: 6300(DFI)1071 Subject: Quality of Service Fund (QSF) — Fund for the Ieast developed countries and promotion of the QSF billing platform Dear Member Countries, Through resolution C 8/2021, the Abidjan Congress decided to set up a special account under the QSF Common Fund dedicated to improving quality of service among least developed countries. During its meeting in May 2022, the Council ofAdministration approved amendments to the QSF rules and the entry into force of this new special account from 1 Juty 2022. Consequently, we wish to inform you that the next Common Fund bill will include a 0.5% supplement for the special account for the least developed countries. This bill will be sent out in late October, once the billing platform has been updated accordingly. Contributing countries will therefore receive a bill for 1.5% of their exchanges with group III countries. it is important that designated operators from groups 1, Ii and lii promptiy send us ali CN 61 and CN 64 forms reiating to their exchanges with group iii countries during the 2019 reference year. We also wanted to take this opportunity to introduce the new QSF billing platform, available free of charge to UPU member countries and their designated operators. This new platform offers: — Direct online entry of CN 61 accounts and CN 64 statements; — Contacts with the correspondent operator to accept, discuss or challenge CN forms; — Online validation of CN forms; — Access to validated CN 64bis statements; — Access to bills issued. The platform is accessed via the Internet; simply visit qsf.upu.int, using a Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari browser. WAN’U JA KOMMUNIIUTIbON)MINISTEERIUM 29. (17. 2022  2 If you aiready have credentials for the UPU Event Management Platform, the login wiII be the same, Le. the e-mail address and password provided by the UPU. lf you have forgotten your password, you can reset it at: accounts. upu. intlmidpointiforgotpassword. If you do not yet have such a login, contact us and we will explain how to obtain access rights. You can register at: hand2hand.upu.int. To guide you through the piatform, there are around 50 tutoriais available in English and French. These should provde you with ali the explanations you need. There is also a test platform (qsf-demo.upu.int) which you can use to carry out tests without affecting the production environment. If you are interested in receiving more information on this environment, or in individual or group trainng to familiarize you with it, please let us know. Yours sincerely, Dubenko Director of Finance