This is a list of postal entities by country. It includes:
The governmental authority responsible for postal matters.
The regulatory authority for the postal sector. Postal regulation may include the establishment of postal policies, postal rates, postal services offered, budgeting for and financing postal operations. Where no independent postal regulator has been established, these tasks may be undertaken by the government or the operator(s). They may be carried out by a single entity or spread out amongst multiple government, quasi-government or private entities.[1]
The designated postal operator of that country (normally the public postal service). Notable postal operators other than the designated operator, if any, may also be listed. Postal operations involve the execution of domestic and international postal services to include the receipt, transportation and delivery of authorized classes of mail, specialized mailing services, the operation of postal facilities and the sale of postage, philatelic materials and mailing supplies.
The following list uses the structure and terminology of the document Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries. This document, published in 2009 by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), contains data for 162 of the 191 countries and territories that were then UPU members. For these countries, which are marked below, the list's contents are based on that document.
Since this document was published, the UPU has had two changes of membership:
^Data from: "Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries" (PDF). Universal Postal Union. 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2011.[permanent dead link] References to institutions may have been updated to refer to their successors, and other operators may have been added.
^"Regulatory authorities of the Colombian postal service". Retrieved 23 April 2012.
^ abGovernment of the Commonwealth of Dominica. "Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Ports". Retrieved 29 May 2011.
^"Bundesnetzagentur - Erteilte Lizenzen". www.bundesnetzagentur.de. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
^"Universal Postal Union – Iceland". www.upu.int. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^"Government of India, Department of Post". Indiapost.gov.in. 28 June 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^Moon, Sung Hwee (2006). "An In-depth Look at North Korea's Postal Service Rumors are Much Quicker Than the Rodong Shinmun". Daily NK. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
^. Universal Postal Union. 26 April 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
List of member countries of the Universal Postal Union : showing their contribution class, geographical group and legal situation with regard to the Acts of the Union. Bern: International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, 2005 13p.
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This is a list of postal entities by country It includes The governmental authority responsible for postal matters The regulatory authority for the postal sector Postal regulation may include the establishment of postal policies postal rates postal services offered budgeting for and financing postal operations Where no independent postal regulator has been established these tasks may be undertaken by the government or the operator s They may be carried out by a single entity or spread out amongst multiple government quasi government or private entities 1 The designated postal operator of that country normally the public postal service Notable postal operators other than the designated operator if any may also be listed Postal operations involve the execution of domestic and international postal services to include the receipt transportation and delivery of authorized classes of mail specialized mailing services the operation of postal facilities and the sale of postage philatelic materials and mailing supplies Contents 1 List 1 1 UPU members 1 2 Countries or territories that are not members of the UPU 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksList EditUPU members Edit The following list uses the structure and terminology of the document Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries This document published in 2009 by the Universal Postal Union UPU contains data for 162 of the 191 countries and territories that were then UPU members For these countries which are marked below the list s contents are based on that document Since this document was published the UPU has had two changes of membership On 10 October 2010 the Netherlands Antilles which shared a UPU membership with Aruba was dissolved Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba collectively known as the Caribbean Netherlands became an integral part of the Netherlands Curacao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands This UPU entity formerly Netherlands Antilles and Aruba is now known as Aruba Curacao and Sint Maarten South Sudan joined the UPU on 4 October 2011 Country Governmental authority Regulatory authority Designated operator Afghanistan 2009 Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies None Afghanistan Postal Service Albania Posta Shqiptare 2 Algeria Ministere de la Poste et des TIC 2 Algerie Poste 2 Angola 2009 Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies Instituto Angolano das Comunicacoes INACOM Empresa Nacional de Correios e Telegrafos de Angola ENCTA Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Post Office Argentina 2009 Ministry of Federal Planning Public Investment and Services MinPlan Communications Secretariat SeCom of MinPlan Correo Oficial de la Republica Argentina CORASA Armenia 2009 Ministry of Transport and Communication State Estate Managing Department Public Services Regulatory Commission Haypost CJSC Aruba N 1 Post Aruba Australia 2009 Department of Communications Australian Competition amp Consumer Commission Postal Services Consultative Council Australia Post Austria 2009 Ministry for Transport Innovation and Technology RTR GmbH Osterreichische Post Azerbaijan 2009 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology None Azerpoct State Enterprise Bahamas 2009 Ministry of Public Works and Transport None Bahamas Postal Service Bahrain 2009 Ministry of Transport None Bahrain Post Bangladesh Ministry of Post and Telecommunication Bangladesh Post Office 2 Barbados 2009 Ministry of Home Affairs None Barbados Postal Service Belarus 2009 Ministry of Communications and Informatization None Republican Unitary Enterprise Belpochta Belgium 2009 Ministry of Enterprise and Simplification Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications IBPT Belgian Post Group formerly La Poste Belize Ministry of Public Utilities Transport Communications 2 Belize Postal Service N 2 Benin 2009 Ministry of Information Technology and Communication Transitional Regulatory Authority La Poste du Benin S A Benin Post Bhutan 2009 Ministry of Information and Communications MoIC Bhutan Information Communication and Media Authority BICMA Bhutan Postal Corporation Bolivia 2009 Ministerio de Servicios Obras Publicas y Vivenda None Agencia Boliviana de Correos ABC Bosnia and Herzegovina 2009 Ministry of Communications and Transport Bosnia and Herzegovina Agency for Postal Traffic BH Posta Poste SrpskeHrvatska Posta Mostar Botswana 2009 Ministry of Communications Science and Technology None BotswanaPost Brazil 2009 Ministry of Communications None Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos ECT Brunei 2009 Ministry of Communications None Brunei Postal Services Department Bulgaria 2009 State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications Communications Regulation Commission CRC Bulgarian Posts Burkina Faso 2009 Ministry of Posts Information Technology and Communication None La Poste BF Burma Myanma Posts and Telecommunications Burundi 2009 Ministry of Transport Posts and Telecommunications None Regie nationale des postes R N P National Postal Authority Cambodia 2009 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications MPTC None Directorate of Posts Cambodian Post Cameroon 2009 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications None Cameroon Postal Services CAMPOST Canada 2009 Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation None Canada Post Corporation CPC Cape Verde 2009 Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport National Communications Agency ANAC Correios de Cabo Verde SARL CCV Central African Republic 2009 Ministry of Posts Telecommunications and New Technologies None National Posts and Savings Corporation ONPE Chad 2009 Ministry of posts and information and communication technologies None the regulatory function is assigned to STPE Chad Posts and Savings Company STPE Chile 2009 Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications Under Secretariat for Telecommunications None Empresa de Correos de Chile China 2009 Ministry of Transport State Post Bureau China Post Group Hong Kong Hongkong Post Macao Correios de Macau Colombia 2009 Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications Regulatory Commission of Communications CRC and Superintendency of Industry and Commerce SIC 3 Servicios Postales Nacionales 4 72 Comoros Societe Nationale des Postes et des Services Financiers 2 Republic of the Congo 2009 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Directorate General of the Central Posts and Telecommunications Administration Congo Posts and Savings Company SOPECO Costa Rica 2009 None Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Publicos ARESEP Correos de Costa Rica Croatia 2009 Ministry of the Sea Tourism Transport and Development Postal Services Council HP Hrvatska posta d d Cuba 2009 Ministry of Informatics and Communications None Empresa de Correos de Cuba Curacao N 1 Cpost International Cyprus 2009 Ministry of Communications and Public Works Commissioner of Telecommunications and Postal Regulation Department of Postal Services Czech Republic 2009 Ministry of Industry and Trade Czech Telecommunications Office CTO Ministry of Finance Czech Post Democratic Republic of the Congo 2009 Ministry of Posts Telephones and Telecommunications Autorite de regulation des postes et telecommunications du Congo ARPTC Congolese Posts and Telecommunications Corporation OCPT Denmark 2009 Ministry of Transport Faerdselsstyrelsen Postal Supervisory Department PostNord Greenland Tusass A SOther operators Bring Citymail Djibouti Djibouti Post N 2 Dominica Ministry of Public Works Energy and Ports 4 General Post Office GPO 4 N 2 Dominican Republic 2009 Ministry of Public Works and Communications None Instituto Postal Dominicano INPOSDOM Dominican Postal Institute East Timor Government of Timor Leste Correios De Timor Leste Ecuador 2009 Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Ecuador Agencia Nacional Postal National Postal Agency Correos del Ecuador Egypt 2009 Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies None National Postal Authority Egypt Post El Salvador 2009 Ministry of Gobernacion None General Postal Directorate Equatorial Guinea Ente autonomo de Guinea Ecuatorial de Correos y Telecomunicaciones GECOTEL N 2 Eritrea 2009 Ministry of Transport and Communication Eritrean Communications Department Eritrean Postal Service EPS Estonia 2009 Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications MEAC Estonian National Communications Board Omniva Eswatini Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications Ethiopia 2009 Ministry of Transport and Communications None Ethiopian Postal Service Fiji Post Fiji 2 Finland 2009 Ministry of Transport and Communications Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority FICORA Aland Aland Government Unit of Administration Posti Group CorporationAland Aland Post France 2009 Ministry of the Economy and Finance France Electronic Communications Postal and Print Media Distribution Regulation Authority ARCEP La Poste Gabon 2009 Ministry of Communication Post Telecommunications and New Information Technologies Postal Regulatory Agency La Poste Gambia 2009 Ministry of Communication Information and Technology None Gambia Postal Services Corporation Georgia Georgian Post 2 Germany 2009 Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Federal Network Agency Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post Several operators Deutsche Post has the largest market share 5 Ghana 2009 Ministry of Communications Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission Ghana Post Company Limited Greece 2009 Ministry of Transport and Communications EETT National Telecommunications and Post Commission Hellenic Post ELTA S A Grenada Grenada Postal Corporation 2 Guatemala El Correo Correo de Guatemala 2 Guinea 2009 Ministry of Communication and New Information Technologies MCNTI Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ARPT Office de la poste guineenne OPG Guinean Post Office Guinea Bissau Correios da Guine Bissau Guyana Guyana Post Office Corporation Haiti Office des Postes d Haiti Honduras Honducor Hungary Magyar Posta Iceland 6 Ministry of the Interior Post and Telecom Administration Islandspostur India 7 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Department of Posts India Post Indonesia Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Pos Indonesia Iran IRI Post Iraq Iraqi Telecommunications and Post Company Ireland Minister for Transport Tourism and Sport Commission for Communications Regulation An Post Israel Israel Post Italy Ministry of Economic Development Agenzia nazionale di regolamentazione del settore postale Poste italiane Ivory Coast 2009 Ministry of New Information Technology and Telecommunications None La Poste Jamaica Postal Corporation of Jamaica Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Postal Services Policy Department Subdivision of Information and Communications Bureau Japan Post Holdings Jordan Jordan Post Company Kazakhstan Ministry of Investment and Development Committee for Communication Informatisation and Information Kazpost Kenya Ministry of Information and Communications Technology Communications Authority of Kenya Postal Corporation of Kenya Kiribati Kiribati Public Service Public Kuwait Ministry of Communications Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan State Communication Agency Kyrgyz Express Post Kyrgyz Pochtasy SE Laos Latvia Latvijas Pasts Lebanon LibanPost Lesotho Lesotho Post Liberia Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Liberia Libya General Posts and Telecommunications Company Liechtenstein Liechtensteinische Post Lithuania Lietuvos pastas Luxembourg Post Luxembourg Madagascar Paositra Malagasy Malawi Malawi Posts Corporation Malaysia Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Pos Malaysia Maldives Maldives Post Mali Office national des postes du Mali Malta Ministry of Infrastructure Transport and Communications Malta Communications Authority MaltaPost Mauritania La Societe Mauritanienne des Postes Mauritius Mauritius Post Mexico Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes Correos de Mexico Moldova 2009 Ministry of Information Development Poșta Moldovei Monaco La Poste Monaco Mongolia Mongol Post Montenegro Posta Crne Gore Morocco Poste Maroc Mozambique Correios de Mocambique Namibia NamPost Nauru Nauru General Post Office Departament of Chief Secretary Nepal Nepal Post Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs OPTA Authority for Consumers amp Markets ACM PostNL Caribbean Netherlands N 1 FXDC Post New Zealand N 3 NZ Post Nicaragua Correos de Nicaragua Niger Niger Poste Nigeria Nigerian Postal Service North Korea Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications 8 Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation KPTC N 2 North Macedonia North Macedonia Post Norway Posten Oman Oman Post Pakistan Pakistan Post Panama Correos Panama Papua New Guinea Post PNG Paraguay Correo Nacional Paraguayo Peru Serpost Philippines 2009 Philippine Postal Corporation PHLPost Poland Ministry of State Assets Poland pol Ministerstwo Aktywow Panstwowych Departament Nadzoru I Office of Electronic Communications Poczta Polska Portugal 2009 ANACOM CTT Correios de Portugal S A Qatar Qatar Post Romania 2009 Ministry of Communications and Information Society National Regulatory Authority for Communications Authoritatea Nationala de Reglementare in Comunicatii ANCOM Poșta Romană Russia Russian Post Rwanda National Post Office Saint Christopher Nevis Anguilla St Kitts amp Nevis Postal Services Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Postal Service Saint Vincent and the Grenadines SVG Postal Corporation Samoa Samoa Post San Marino Poste sammarinesi Sao Tome and Principe Correios de Sao Tome e Principe Saudi Arabia Saudi Post Senegal La Poste Senegal Serbia Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications Republic agency for Postal Services RAPUS Posta Srbije Seychelles Seychelles Postal Service Sierra Leone SALPOST Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information Infocomm Media Development Authority Singapore Post Sint Maarten N 1 Postal Services St Maarten Slovakia Slovenska posta Slovenia Posta Slovenije Solomon Islands Solomon Post Somalia 9 Minister of Information Posts and Telecommunications Somali Postal Service South Africa South African Post Office South Korea Ministry of Science and ICT Korea Post South Sudan Minister of Telecommunication and Postal Services Spain Correos Sri Lanka Ministry of Posts Postal Services amp Muslim Religious Affairs Department of Post Sri Lanka Post Sudan Suriname Surpost Sweden Ministry of Enterprise Swedish Post and Telecom Authority PostNord Sverige Other operators Over 30 other licensed operators as of 2014 10 Switzerland Federal Department of the Environment Transport Energy and Communications DETEC Federal Postal Services Commission Swiss Post Syria Ministry of Transport Syrian Post Tajikistan Tajik Post Pochtai toҷik 11 Tanzania Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority Tanzania Posts Corporation Thailand Ministry of Transport None Thailand Post Togo La Poste du Togo Tonga N 4 Tonga Post Trinidad and Tobago TTPost Tunisia La Poste Tunisienne Turkey Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure PTT Turkmenistan Turkmenpochta Tuvalu Uganda Uganda Communications Commission Posta Uganda Ukraine Ukrposhta United Arab Emirates Empost United Kingdom 2009 Department for Business Energy amp Industrial Strategy Ofcom British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have separate operators and regulatory arrangements Royal MailOther operators British Forces Post Office55 other licensed operators as of 2011 12 British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies Anguilla Post Office 13 Bermuda Post Office 14 BIOT Post Office 15 outbound inbound is United States Postal Service and British Forces Post Office 16 British Antarctic Territory Government 17 via Falkland Islands or British Forces 18 BVI Post 19 Cayman Islands Postal Service 20 Falklands Post Service Limited 21 22 Guernsey Post Isle of Man Post Office Jersey Post Montserrat General Post Office 23 Pitcairn Post Office 24 25 Royal Gibraltar Post Office Turks and Caicos Post Office 26 Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Ascension Post Office 27 13 Saint Helena Post Office 28 Tristan da Cunha Post Office 29 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Ministry of Post transported via Falkland Islands or British Forces 30 31 Cyprus Postal Services handles civilian mail for Akrotiri and Dhekelia British Forces Post Office provides military mail service for UK service members internationally including to Akrotiri and Dhekelia and other jurisdictions listed above which also have public civilian delivery 32 United States United States Postal Service N 5 Postal Regulatory Commission United States Postal Service Uruguay Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones Correo Uruguayo Uzbekistan O zbekiston Pochtasi Vanuatu Vanuatu Post Vatican City Poste Vaticane Venezuela IPOSTEL Vietnam VNPT Yemen Yemen Post Zambia ZamPost Zimbabwe ZimPostNotes a b c d now called Aruba Curacao and Sint Maarten a b c d e Presumably the country s principal or only postal operator not listed as designated postal operator on the UPU website including the Ross Dependency including Niuafo ou The United States Postal Service is a government owned corporation its board members are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate Countries or territories that are not members of the UPU Edit This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items May 2011 Country or territory Governmental authority Regulatory authority Operator s Kosovo Post and Telecom of Kosovo Posta e Kosoves Donetsk People s Republic Luhansk People s Republic State enterprise Donbass Post Palestinian territories West Bank PNA Palestinian Ministry of Telecom amp IT Gaza Strip Hamas Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology West Bank Palestine Post Taiwan Ministry of Transportation and Communications None Chunghwa PostSee also Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Postal organizations List of national postal services List of members of the Universal Postal Union List of entities that have issued postage stamps A E F L M Z List of philatelic bureaus Articles about postal systems by country postal organisations by country United Nations Postal Administration Philately portalReferences Edit Data from Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries PDF Universal Postal Union 2009 Retrieved 28 May 2011 permanent dead link References to institutions may have been updated to refer to their successors and other operators may have been added a b c d e f g h i j Universal Postal Union Member countries Retrieved 29 May 2011 Regulatory authorities of the Colombian postal service Retrieved 23 April 2012 a b Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica Ministry of Public Works Energy and Ports Retrieved 29 May 2011 Bundesnetzagentur Erteilte Lizenzen www bundesnetzagentur de Retrieved 16 February 2021 Universal Postal Union Iceland www upu int Retrieved 14 July 2017 Government of India Department of Post Indiapost gov in 28 June 2018 Retrieved 14 August 2018 Moon Sung Hwee 2006 An In depth Look at North Korea s Postal Service Rumors are Much Quicker Than the Rodong Shinmun Daily NK Retrieved 29 May 2011 Mail services could soon resume in Somalia Universal Postal Union 26 April 2013 Archived from the original on 9 November 2013 Retrieved 27 April 2013 Swedish Post and Telecom Authority Licensed operators PDF Retrieved 24 July 2014 Tajik Post Retrieved 18 April 2022 Postal Services Commission Licensed operators Archived from the original on 30 September 2011 Retrieved 29 May 2011 a b Postal Authorities A digilander libero it Retrieved 14 July 2017 Bermuda Post Office www bpo bm Retrieved 6 April 2018 Archived copy Archived from the original on 5 March 2014 Retrieved 28 January 2014 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link About Us www biotpostoffice com Retrieved 14 July 2017 British Antarctic Territory GOV UK www gov uk Retrieved 14 July 2017 Sending letters and parcels to Antarctic stations and ships British Antarctic Survey Archived from the original on 3 February 2014 Retrieved 28 January 2014 BVI Post Government of the Virgin Islands www bvi gov vg Government of the British Virgin Islands Retrieved 6 April 2018 Cayman Islands Postal Service Government of the Cayman Islands Retrieved 7 July 2019 Falklands South Georgia BAT Stamps Falklands South Georgia BAT Stamps Falkland Islands Government Retrieved 17 July 2019 Postal Authorities F digilander libero it Retrieved 14 July 2017 Postal Authorities M digilander libero it Retrieved 14 July 2017 Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau www stamps gov pn Retrieved 14 July 2017 Postal Authorities O P digilander libero it Retrieved 14 July 2017 Government Turks and Caicos Information TCI Mall www tcimall tc Retrieved 14 July 2017 Post Office About Ascension Island www ascension island gov ac Archived from the original on 14 July 2017 Retrieved 14 July 2017 Postal Authorities S digilander libero it Retrieved 14 July 2017 Millington Peter Tristan da Cunha Post Office www tristandc com Retrieved 14 July 2017 Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia Wiki www sgwiki gs Archived from the original on 2 February 2014 Post Office South Georgia Wiki Archived from the original on 2 February 2014 Retrieved 28 January 2014 Indicator list PDF www gov uk Further reading EditList of member countries of the Universal Postal Union showing their contribution class geographical group and legal situation with regard to the Acts of the Union Bern International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union 2005 13p External links Edithttp digilander libero it fabioalarici philbur html Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of postal entities amp oldid 1144169994, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
