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Company type | formerly state-owned, Limited company |
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Industry | Postal Service |
Founded | 1867 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | György Schamschula, CEO |
Revenue | 675,000,000 euro (2018) |
−7,600,000 euro (2018) | |
Owner | State of Hungary |
Number of employees | 31,843 (2018) |
Divisions | MPL (Magyar Posta Logistics) |
Subsidiaries | Posta Kézbesítő LLC Postaautó Duna Zrt. Posta Pénzszolgáltató JSC JNT Security Logisztikai és Biztonsági LLC |
Website | www.posta.hu |
Magyar Posta Zrt. (Hungarian for Hungarian Post JSC) or Hungarian Post is the postal administration of Hungary. Besides normal mail delivery, Magyar Posta also offers logistics, banking, and marketing services.
The origin of the Magyar Posta was the independent national public institution called Magyar Királyi Posta established in 1867 as part of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867. [1] While at first it used the stamps of the Austrian Empire, in 1871 it issued its own stamps. The Magyar Királyi Posta was the first to experiment with the motorization of the postal conveyances, beginning in 1897. In 1900, they adopted János Csonka's motorized tricycle, which continued in use by the postal service until the 1920s. [1]
In 1918, they briefly dropped the Királyi from their name during the First Hungarian Republic (1918-1920), and restored it under the regency beginning in 1920. In 1945 under the provisional government it again became just Magyar Posta.
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