The country's postmaster has assured that all Philippine Identification System cards handed over to Philippine Postal Corporation offices will be delivered to the doorsteps of their owners.

Interviewed on the Daily Tribune's digital show Straight Talk, PhilPost postmaster general Norman Fulgencio maintained that the distribution of Philsys ID cards are unrelenting despite a surge of deliveries from the Philippine Statistics Authority.

"As of 23 September, we have received a total of 20,750,000 because there was a surge of delivery (of the IDs) from the PSA for the last two months. Before 30 July, we were hitting about 95 percent. So, right now as of 23 September out of the 20,750,000, we have already delivered 16.5 million," he said.

And as of 24 July, Fulgencio said the deliveries of about 2 million are ongoing, while 1.5 million are at the Central Main Exchange of the PhilPost for processing.

"All IDs are intact. We will know by 6 October what our actual delivery is," he added.

He said that it is unfair to blame the PhilPost for the discrepancies in the deliveries.

"What we receive is what we deliver. We cannot deliver what we don't have. All deliveries have received copies and reported accordingly. If there are delays on our part, it's a very minimal balance of 3.5 million. But our deliveries are still ongoing, even on weekends. We started in May 2021, and we are delivering even on weekends, even during the height of the pandemic," he explained.

Fulgencio said the PhilPost is sort of overwhelmed as the production of IDs was accelerated by the PSA.

Earlier, Fulgencio said citizens can verify or check their Phil ID through the PhilPost website.

If the result is "Not Found", he said it means that the PhilSys ID has not been received by the Post Office.

Digitization

Fulgencio revealed that national IDs go through mechanical sorting that's why they are now easy to sort by region.