List of postal entities explained

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.

List

UPU members

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. Curaçao 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, Curaçao and Sint Maarten".
• South Sudan joined the UPU on 4 October 2011.

Country	Governmental authority	Regulatory authority	Designated operator
^[2009]		None	Afghanistan Postal Service
			Posta Shqiptare^[2]
			Algérie Poste
^[2009]		Instituto Angolano das Comunicações (INACOM)	Empresa Nacional de Correios e Telégrafos de Angola (ENCTA)
			Antigua Post Office
^[2009]	Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services (MinPlan)	Communications Secretariat (SeCom) of MinPlan	Correo Oficial de la República Argentina (CORASA)
^[2009]			"Haypost" CJSC
^[3]			Post Aruba
^[2009]			Australia Post
^[2009]			Österreichische Post
^[2009]	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology	None	"Azərpoçt" State Enterprise
^[2009]		None	Bahamas Postal Service
^[2009]		None	Bahrain Post
			Bangladesh Post Office
^[2009]		None	Barbados Postal Service
^[2009]		None	Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belpochta"
^[2009]		Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications (IBPT)	Belgian Post Group (formerly La Poste)
			Belize Postal Service^[4]
^[2009]		Transitional Regulatory Authority	"La Poste du Bénin S.A." (Benin Post)
^[2009]	Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC)	Bhutan Information, Communication and Media Authority (BICMA)	Bhutan Postal Corporation
^[2009]		None	Agencia Boliviana de Correos (ABC)
^[2009]			BH Pošta Pošte Srpske Hrvatska Pošta Mostar
^[2009]		None	BotswanaPost
^[2009]		None	Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT)
^[2009]		None	Brunei Postal Services Department
^[2009]		Communications Regulation Commission (CRC)	Bulgarian Posts
^[2009]		None	La Poste BF
			Myanma Posts and Telecommunications
^[2009]		None	Régie nationale des postes (R.N.P. – National Postal Authority)
^[2009]	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC)	None	Directorate of Posts (Cambodian Post)
^[2009]	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications	None	Cameroon Postal Services (CAMPOST)
^[2009]		None	Canada Post Corporation (CPC)
^[2009]		National Communications Agency (ANAC)	Correios de Cabo Verde, SARL (CCV)
^[2009]		None	National Posts and Savings Corporation (ONPE)
^[2009]		None (the regulatory function is assigned to STPE)	Chad Posts and Savings Company (STPE)
^[2009]	Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Under-Secretariat for Telecommunications	None	Empresa de Correos de Chile
^[2009]			China Post Group Hong Kong: Hongkong Post Macao: Correios de Macau
^[2009]		Regulatory Commission of Communications (CRC) and Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC)^[5]	Servicios Postales Nacionales (4–72)
			Société Nationale des Postes et des Services Financiers
^[2009]	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications	Directorate General of the Central Posts and Telecommunications Administration	Congo Posts and Savings Company (SOPECO)
^[2009]	None	Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos (ARESEP)	Correos de Costa Rica
^[2009]			HP-Hrvatska pošta d.d
^[2009]		None	Empresa de Correos de Cuba
^[6]			Cpost International
^[2009]			Department of Postal Services
^[2009]		Czech Telecommunications Office (CTO), Ministry of Finance	Czech Post
^[2009]		Autorité de régulation des postes et télécommunications du Congo (ARPTC)	Congolese Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (OCPT)
^[2009]		Faerdselsstyrelsen (Postal Supervisory Department)	PostNord Greenland Tusass A/S Other operators: Bring Citymail
			Djibouti Post
	Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Ports^[7]		General Post Office (GPO)
^[2009]		None	Instituto Postal Dominicano (INPOSDOM; Dominican Postal Institute)
	Government of Timor-Leste		Correios De Timor-Leste
^[2009]	Office of the Vice-President of the Republic of Ecuador	Agencia Nacional Postal (National Postal Agency)	Correos del Ecuador
^[2009]		None	National Postal Authority (Egypt Post)
^[2009]		None	General Postal Directorate
			Ente autónomo de Guinea Ecuatorial de Correos y Telecomunicaciones (GECOTEL)
^[2009]			Eritrean Postal Service (EPS)
^[2009]	Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MEAC)		Omniva
			Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications
^[2009]		None	Ethiopian Postal Service
			Post Fiji
^[2009]		Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) Åland: Åland Government/Unit of Administration	Posti Group Corporation Åland: Åland Post
^[2009]		Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution Regulation Authority (ARCEP)	La Poste
^[2009]			La Poste
^[2009]		None	Gambia Postal Services Corporation
			Georgian Post
^[2009]		Federal Network Agency (Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post)	Several operators. Deutsche Post has the largest market share.^[8]
^[2009]			Ghana Post Company Limited
^[2009]		EETT (National Telecommunications and Post Commission)	Hellenic Post (ELTA S.A.)
			Grenada Postal Corporation
			El Correo (Correo de Guatemala)
^[2009]	Ministry of Communication and New Information Technologies (MCNTI)	Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARPT)	Office de la poste guinéenne (OPG) (Guinean Post Office)
			Correios da Guiné-Bissau
			Guyana Post Office Corporation
			Office des Postes d'Haiti
			Honducor
			Magyar Posta
^[9]		Post and Telecom Administration	Íslandspóstur
^[10]		Department of Posts	India Post
	Ministry of Communication and Information Technology		Pos Indonesia
			IRI Post
			Iraqi Telecommunications and Post Company
			An Post
			Israel Post
			Poste Italiane
^[2009]		None	La Poste
			Postal Corporation of Jamaica
	Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications	Postal Services Policy Department (Subdivision of Information and Communications Bureau)	Japan Post Holdings
			Jordan Post Company
			Kazpost
	Ministry of Information and Communications Technology	Communications Authority of Kenya	Postal Corporation of Kenya
			Kiribati Public Service Public
			Ministry of Communications (Kuwait)
			Kyrgyz Express Post "Kyrgyz Pochtasy" SE
			Latvijas Pasts
			LibanPost
			Lesotho Post
			Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Liberia)
			General Posts and Telecommunications Company
			Liechtensteinische Post
			Lietuvos paštas
			Post Luxembourg
			Paositra Malagasy
			Malawi Posts Corporation
			Pos Malaysia
			Maldives Post
			Office national des postes du Mali
			MaltaPost
			La Société Mauritanienne des Postes
			Mauritius Post
			Correos de México
^[2009]			Poșta Moldovei
			La Poste Monaco
			Mongol Post
			Pošta Crne Gore
			Poste Maroc
			Correios de Moçambique
			NamPost
	Nauru General Post Office - Department of Chief Secretary
			Nepal Post
		OPTA/Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM)	PostNL
^[11]			FXDC Post
^[12]			NZ Post
			Correos de Nicaragua
			Niger Poste
			Nigerian Postal Service
	Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications^[13]		Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC)
			North Macedonia Post
			Posten Bring (temporary concession)^[14]
			Oman Post
			Pakistan Post
			Correos Panamá
			Post PNG
			Correo Nacional Paraguayo
			Serpost
^[2009]			Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost)
	Ministry of State Assets (Poland) (pol. Ministerstwo Aktywów Państwowych) Departament Nadzoru I	Office of Electronic Communications	Poczta Polska
^[2009]			CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.
			Qatar Post
^[2009]		National Regulatory Authority for Communications (Authoritatea Nationala de Reglementare în Comunicatii) - ANCOM	Poșta Română
			Russian Post
			National Post Office
			St. Kitts & Nevis Postal Services
			Saint Lucia Postal Service
			SVG Postal Corporation
			Samoa Post
			Poste sammarinesi
			Correios de São Tomé e Príncipe
			Saudi Post
			La Poste Senegal
	Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications	Republic agency for Postal Services (RAPUS)	Pošta Srbije
			Seychelles Postal Service
			SALPOST
	Ministry of Communications and Information	Infocomm Media Development Authority	Singapore Post
^[15]			Postal Services St. Maarten
			Slovenská pošta
			Pošta Slovenije
			Solomon Post
^[16]			Somali Postal Service
			South African Post Office
			Correos
			Sri Lanka Post
			Surpost
			PostNord Sverige Other operators: Over 30 other licensed operators as of 2014^[17]
	Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications (DETEC)		Swiss Post
			Syrian Post
			Tajik Post (Почтаи тоҷик)^[18]
		Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority	Tanzania Posts Corporation
		None	Thailand Post
			La Poste du Togo
^[19]			Tonga Post
			TTPost
			La Poste Tunisienne
			PTT
			Turkmenpochta
		Uganda Communications Commission	Posta Uganda
			Ukrposhta
			Emirates Post
^[2009]		Ofcom British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have separate operators and regulatory arrangements.	Royal Mail Other operators:British Forces Post Office 55 other licensed operators as of 2011^[20]
			Anguilla Post Office^[21] Bermuda Post Office^[22] BIOT Post Office,^[23] (outbound; inbound is United States Postal Service and British Forces Post Office^[24]) British Antarctic Territory Government^[25] via Falkland Islands or British Forces^[26] BVI Post^[27] Cayman Islands Postal Service^[28] Falklands Post Service Limited^[29] ^[30] Guernsey Post Isle of Man Post Office Jersey Post Montserrat General Post Office^[31] Pitcairn Post Office^[32] ^[33] Royal Gibraltar Post Office Turks and Caicos Post Office^[34] Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: Ascension Post Office^[35] Saint Helena Post Office^[36] Tristan da Cunha Post Office^[37] South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Ministry of Post (transported via Falkland Islands or British Forces)^[38] ^[39] 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.^[40]
	United States Postal Service^[41]		United States Postal Service
		Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones	Correo Uruguayo
			O‘zbekiston Pochtasi
			Vanuatu Post
			Poste Vaticane
			IPOSTEL
			VNPT
			Yemen Post
			ZamPost
			ZimPost

Notes:

Countries or territories that are not members of the UPU

Country or territory	Governmental authority	Regulatory authority	Operator(s)
			Posta e Kosovës
	West Bank (PNA): Palestinian Ministry of Telecom & IT Gaza Strip (Hamas): Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology		West Bank: Palestine Post
		None	Chunghwa Post

See also

• 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

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• http://digilander.libero.it/fabioalarici/philbur.html

Notes and References

1. Data from: Web site: Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries. 2009. Universal Postal Union. 28 May 2011. References to institutions may have been updated to refer to their successors, and other operators may have been added.
2. Web site: Universal Postal Union. Member countries. 29 May 2011.
3. now called Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
4. Presumably the country's principal or only postal operator; not listed as designated postal operator on the UPU website.
5. Web site: Regulatory authorities of the Colombian postal service. 23 April 2012.
6. now called Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
7. Web site: Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Ports. 29 May 2011.
8. Web site: Bundesnetzagentur - Erteilte Lizenzen. www.bundesnetzagentur.de. 16 February 2021.
9. Web site: Universal Postal Union – Iceland. www.upu.int. 14 July 2017.
10. Web site: Government of India, Department of Post . Indiapost.gov.in . 2018-06-28 . 2018-08-14.
11. Islands Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
12. including the Ross Dependency
13. News: Moon. Sung Hwee. An In-depth Look at North Korea's Postal Service Rumors are Much Quicker Than the Rodong Shinmun. 29 May 2011. Daily NK. 2006.
14. Web site: Ny midlertidig konsesjon til Posten Norgen. Samferdselsdepartementet. 1 July 2020. 19 July 2024. nb.
15. now called Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
16. News: Mail services could soon resume in Somalia. 27 April 2013. Universal Postal Union. 26 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131109172436/http://news.upu.int/nd/mail-services-could-soon-resume-in-somalia/. 9 November 2013.
17. Web site: Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. Licensed operators. 24 July 2014.
18. Web site: Tajik Post. 18 April 2022.
19. including Niuafo'ou
20. Web site: Postal Services Commission. Licensed operators. 29 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930011925/http://www.psc.gov.uk/postallicencesandoperators/licensedoperators#. 30 September 2011. dead.
21. Web site: Postal Authorities A. digilander.libero.it. 14 July 2017.
22. Web site: Bermuda Post Office. www.bpo.bm. 6 April 2018.
23. Web site: Archived copy . 28 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140305083030/http://www.biotpostoffice.com/# . 5 March 2014 . dead.
24. Web site: About Us. www.biotpostoffice.com. 14 July 2017.
25. Web site: British Antarctic Territory - GOV.UK. www.gov.uk. 14 July 2017.
26. Web site: Sending letters and parcels to Antarctic stations and ships - British Antarctic Survey . 2014-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203095235/http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/family_liaison/mail.php . 3 February 2014.
27. Web site: BVI Post - Government of the Virgin Islands. Government of the British Virgin Islands. www.bvi.gov.vg. 6 April 2018.
28. Web site: Cayman Islands Postal Service. Government of the Cayman Islands. 7 July 2019.
29. Web site: Falklands South Georgia BAT Stamps. Falkland Islands Government. Falklands South Georgia BAT Stamps. 17 July 2019.
30. Web site: Postal Authorities F. digilander.libero.it. 14 July 2017.
31. Web site: Postal Authorities M. digilander.libero.it. 14 July 2017.
32. Web site: Pitcairn Islands Philatelic Bureau. www.stamps.gov.pn. 14 July 2017.
33. Web site: Postal Authorities O-P. digilander.libero.it. 14 July 2017.
34. Web site: Government - Turks and Caicos Information - TCI Mall. www.tcimall.tc. 14 July 2017.
35. Web site: Post Office – About - Ascension Island. www.ascension-island.gov.ac. 14 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170714045117/http://www.ascension-island.gov.ac/government/post-office-philatelic-bureau/post-office-about/. 14 July 2017. dead.
36. Web site: Postal Authorities S. digilander.libero.it. 14 July 2017.
37. Web site: Tristan da Cunha Post Office. Peter. Millington. www.tristandc.com. 14 July 2017.
38. Web site: Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - South Georgia Wiki. www.sgwiki.gs . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202093859/http://www.sgwiki.gs/mediawiki/index.php/Government_of_South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands . 2 February 2014.
39. Web site: Post Office - South Georgia Wiki . 2014-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140202093628/http://www.sgwiki.gs/mediawiki/index.php/Post_Office . 2 February 2014.
40. Web site: Indicator list . www.gov.uk.
41. 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.