Vinaya Prakash Singh, a senior Indian Postal Service (IPoS) officer, has been re-elected without opposition as Secretary-General of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) for a second four-year term covering 2027-2030. The APPU is an intergovernmental body of 32 Asia-Pacific countries and a regional union of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. It began in 1962 as the Asian-Oceanic Postal Union and took its present name in 1981. It promotes postal cooperation, cross-border logistics, e-commerce and technical capacity building.