A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services,such as accepting letters and parcels,providing post office boxes,and selling postage stamps,packaging,and stationery. Post offices may offer additional services,which vary by country. These include providing and accepting government forms,and processing government services and fees. The chief administrator of a post office is called a postmaster.
The United States Post Office Department was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service,established in 1792. From 1872 to 1971,it was officially in the form of a Cabinet department. It was headed by the postmaster general.
NZ Post,shortened from New Zealand Post,is a state-owned enterprise responsible for providing postal service in New Zealand.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Russian Empire,the Soviet Union and the modern Russian Federation.
Australia Post,formally known as the Australian Postal Corporation,is a Commonwealth government-owned corporation that provides postal services throughout Australia. Australia Post's head office is located on Bourke Street,Melbourne,above the Bourke Street Post Office.
India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India,and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications. Generally known as the Post Office,it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. Warren Hastings had taken initiative under East India Company to start the Postal Service in the country in 1766. It was initially established under the name "Company Mail". It was later modified into a service under the Crown in 1854 by Lord Dalhousie. Dalhousie introduced uniform postage rates and helped to pass the India Post Office Act 1854 which significantly improved upon 1837 Post Office act which had introduced regular post offices in India. It created the position Director General of Post for the whole country.
Hongkong Post is a government department of Hong Kong responsible for postal services,though operated as a trading fund. Founded in 1841,it was known as Postal Department or Post Office before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. It has been a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union since 1877,and is a separate entity from China Post.
The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. In modern times,postal delivery is handled by China Post.
Russian Post is an Aktsionernoye Obschestvo which is the national postal operator of Russia. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia,and the issuing of postage stamps. Russian Post employs about 390,000 people and has over 42,000 post offices,with its headquarters in Moscow. In 2012 the Russian Post delivered more than 2.4 billion pieces of mail and accounted for more than 54 million parcels and more than 100 million in remittances. In March 2013 a presidential decree signed by President Vladimir Putin included the Russian Post in a list of so-called strategic enterprises.
Chunghwa Post Co.,Ltd. is the official postal service of Taiwan. Chunghwa Post was a government agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications until 2003,when it was reorganized into a government-owned corporation.
Pos Malaysia Berhad is a postal delivery service in Malaysia,with history dating back to early 1800s.
Pakistan Post is a state enterprise which functions as Pakistan's primary and largest postal operator. 49,502 employees through a vehicle fleet of 5,000 operate traditional "to the door" service from more than 13,419 post offices across the country,servicing over 50 million people. Pakistan Post operates under the autonomous "Postal Services Management Board" to deliver a full range of delivery,logistics and fulfillment services to customers.
The Nigerian Postal Service,abbreviated as NIPOST is a government-owned and operated corporation,is the Nigerian postal administration responsible for providing postal services in Nigeria. It has more than 12,000 employees and runs more than 3,000 post offices. The Nigerian Postal Service also have the following Commercial Business Units;EMS/PARCEL,e-Commerce &Logistics,Financial Services,Mails,Counters,Property &Workshop,NIPOST Training School.
HP-Hrvatska pošta d.d.,founded in 1999,is a state-owned joint-stock company in Croatia that performs postal and payment transactions. It is the national postal operator of the Republic of Croatia.
Mobile post offices deliver mail and other postal services through specially equipped vehicles,such as trucks and trains.
The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post,the postal service of the People's Republic of China. The agency used to report to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is now under the administration of the Ministry of Transport. The bureau is headed by the Director-General. The current Director-General is Ma Junsheng.
The first postage stamps of Bhutan were issued in 1962,the same year that the first motorable road was opened. Before that there was a mail delivery system in place for official mail using mail runners,and between 1955 and 1962 revenue stamps were accepted as payment for internal mail. With the opening up of Bhutan in the early 1960s,a formal postal system was introduced.
The Barbados Postal Service (B.P.S.) is the national postal operator of Barbados and operates as a department within the Government of Barbados where it reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Barbados Postal Service (B.P.S.) is headed by the acting Postmaster General,Sheila Greaves,who is responsible for maintaining the island’s postal services,subject to the laws of the island. In 1852,the Postal services for Barbados were reconstituted following the passage of local legislation enabling the delivery of inland postage.
The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more,with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose". Their border design was similar while each denomination of stamp bore its own distinctive image in the center (vignette). Unlike regular postage items,whose rates were determined by weight in ounces,Parcel Post rates were determined and measured by increments in pounds. The new stamps were soon widely used by industry,farmers and others who lived in rural areas. Partly owing to some confusion involving their usage,their exclusive use as Parcel Post stamps proved short lived,as regular postage stamps were soon allowed to be used to pay parcel postage rates.
Mongol Post is the national postal service of Mongolia. The formerly state-owned Mongol Post was transformed into a joint stock company on April 11,2016,by offering 34 percent of the total shares to the public. It was founded by the Mongolian People's Republic in 1935 and went under several different names before its current structure was established in 1994. The Mongol Post JSC is charge of postal services,delivery and issuing of postage stamps. The headquarters are in Ulaanbaatar,and the company employs over 900 people and has over 389 post offices.
