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.
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.
The Department of Posts,d/b/a India Post,is an Indian public sector postal system statutory body headquartered in New Delhi,India. It is an organisation under the Ministry of Communications. Generally known as the Post Office,it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world,and India is the country that has the largest number of post offices in the world. It is involved in delivering mail (post),remitting money by money orders,accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes,providing life insurance coverage under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection,sale of forms,etc.
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.
Posti Group Oyj,trading internationally as Posti Group Corporation,is the main Finnish postal service delivering mail and parcels in Finland. The State of Finland is the sole shareholder of the company. Posti has a universal service obligation that entails weekday deliveries of letters in all of Finland's municipalities. Posti's head office is located in Pohjois-Pasila in Helsinki. Posti's history spans nearly 400 years.
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 the Republic of China (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.
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.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is a cabinet-level governmental body of the Republic of China (R.O.C.) in charge of all policy and regulation of transportation and communications networks and administration of all transportation and communications operations and enterprises in Taiwan.
The State Post Bureau is the government agency that regulates China Post,the postal service 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.
BotswanaPost is the company responsible for postal service in Botswana. It is a parastatal company,100% owned by the Government of Botswana,under the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Tanzania Posts Corporation is the company responsible for postal service in Tanzania and was established in 1994. It is headquartered in Kivukoni ward of Ilala MC in Dar es Salaam.
Posta Uganda originally named Uganda Post Limited,is the company solely responsible for postal service in Uganda.
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 North Korean Postal Service or Korean Post is operated by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Communication Maintenance Bureau,which oversees postal communications,telegrams,telephone services,TV broadcasts,newspapers and other related matters.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) provides Priority Mail Express for domestic U.S. delivery,and offers two types of international Express Mail services,although only one of them is part of the EMS standard. One is called Priority Mail Express International and the other service is called Global Express Guaranteed (GXG). The latter has no relation to "EMS" International service as provided by the EMS Cooperative.
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.
