Verizon, the Central Electoral Board and the state-run postal service say that as of 2005, every person over 18 with a cedula (local identification card) in the DR will receive an email account, regardless of whether they have a computer or not. As reported in El Caribe, there will be no charge for accounts using up to 10 megabytes. Thereafter a fee will be charged for any space. The email addresses will be assigned as such: cedulanumber@imposdom.com.do
The new director of the postal service, Leonora Zacarias Metz, hopes to restore reliability to the service. She said that in July of this year, 155,930 letters were sent to different countries, and 67,254 were received. The volume of mail has decreased, she said, by the 25 private companies that offer courier services to the better-paying clients and provide a more reliable service. She said that Inposdom has 215 offices nationwide, including 22 in the city of Santo Domingo, a fact that makes it perhaps the government institution with the most visible presence in the country. Mail sent abroad is classified in Miami.