Courier services face competition from Syrian refugee entrepreneur's mobile app

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Fri, 2019-09-06 02:37

DUBAI: After struggling to obtain paperwork to get his daughter’s birth legally registered, a Syrian refugee has created a peer-to-peer mobile app that enables people in the Middle East to send letters and documents faster and cheaper than by conventional courier or post.
Although initially targeting fellow members of the Syrian diaspora in nearby countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Shiffer is gaining more widespread traction, with 1,000 customers already using the service and the company’s app available on both Android and iOS.