• Bread Distribution Programme - We deploy our fleet of vehicles four days a week to collect unsold bread, pastries and cakes from hotels and confectioneries, and deliver to self-collection centres islandwide since June 2008.
  
  
• Food Goodie Bag Programme - Our staff have been expending both personal time and money towards this programme since July 2008, sponsoring, packing and distributing food goodie bags on a quarterly basis to some 120 senior citizens staying in one-room flats in Kolam Ayer. We also brought festive cheer to these needy residents through activities such as Year-end Party, Mid-Autumn Celebration, Post-Chinese New Year Party and the distribution of red packets.
  
  
• Since June 2009, we have stepped up our support for FFTH by sponsoring a group of  unprivileged primary school students with a monthly supply of food essential items.

• Financial Assistance – We have been supporting the Community Chest SHARE programme since 2004 where we match staff’s monthly contributions dollar-for-dollar. We also raised funds and matched staff’s contributions for overseas humanitarian efforts i.e. Myanmar cyclone and China earthquake in 2008, Indonesia's Mentawai tsunami and Mount Merapi volcanic eruption in 2010 and Japan’s massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
  
  
• Core competencies – We use our postal and logistical strengths to support good causes e.g. collection of origami hearts from posting boxes for SingTel’s Touching Lives Fund, delivery of relief supplies and other items to overseas for charitable purposes, etc.
  
  
• Retail Network – We leverage our wide distribution network of post offices and Self-service Automated Machines (SAM) to facilitate public donations e.g. Community Chest’s Donation Box Charity Drive at post offices, electronic donations via SAM, etc.
  
  
• Singapore Philatelic Museum – We also engage the young thorugh the Singapore Philatelic Miseum by contributing $300,000 to the museum for the upkeep and presentation of its philatelic materials and exhibits as well as museum activities on a yearly basis.
  
  

One of our green initiatives was to make our flagship building, Singapore Post Centre, more environment-friendly by installing new energy efficient cooling units and fine-tuning the overall chiller plant system, thus reducing the carbon footprint significantly by 2, 531 tonnes per year or an equivalent of 626 saloon cars off the road.

The green initiative is win-win for SingPost as well as we stand to reap savings of more than $1 million a year for the Group. This project also won the ASEAN Energy Award 2008 for demonstrating best practices in energy efficiency and conservation.

This effort supplements SingPost's on-going environment-friendly practices involving energy saving and paper recycling. We have also implemented an eight-year Green Fleet programme to replace our existing vehicles gradually with environment-friendly ones. Many of our vehicles are Euro IV-compliant, which translate into less carbon emissions. We continually seek ways to make our operations more fuel and cost-efficient. Route optimisation and investing in three-wheelers help to reduce the number of return trips to the base or mail transit rooms which in turn help to reduce carbon emission. SingPost also uses about 350 bicycle routes to provide mail service. Some 120 postmen deliver mail on foot.

There is collective support from everyone to contribute towards energy saving programmes. We set up green corners in our operation areas and offices to encourage recycling as we recognise the long-term and tangible benefits to both the company and the environment that we serve and operate in.

Singapore Post is taking their commitment to sustainability a step further by committing its support for Earth Hour 2013.

Earth Hour is the world's largest environmental initiative in partnership with WWF that turns symbolic actions of individuals, corporates and governments around the world into an on-going commitment to achieve sound results for a sustainable future.

Earth Hour began in one city in 2007 and by 2012 took place in more than 7000 cities and towns in 152 countries across every continent, receiving reports as ‘the world’s largest campaign for the planet.

As a sponsor for Earth Hour, Singapore Post hopes to inspire Singaporeans to join them in championing Earth Hour by committing to an eco-action for the future.