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.Data from: References to institutions may have been updated to refer to their successors, and other operators may have been added. 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.
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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 Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies None Afghanistan Postal Service Posta Shqiptare Algérie Poste Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies Instituto Angolano das Comunicações (INACOM) Empresa Nacional de Correios e Telégrafos de Angola (ENCTA) Antigua Post Office Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services (MinPlan) Communications Secretariat (SeCom) of MinPlan Correo Oficial de la República Argentina (CORASA) Ministry of Transport and Communication, State Estate Managing Department Public Services Regulatory Commission "Haypost" CJSC now called Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten Post Aruba Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Australia Post Australia Post Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology RTR GmbH Österreichische Post Ministry of Communications and Information Technology None "Azərpoçt" State Enterprise Ministry of Public Works and Transport None Bahamas Postal Service Ministry of Transport None Bahrain Post Ministry of Post and Telecommunication Bangladesh Post Office Ministry of Home Affairs None Barbados Postal Service Ministry of Communications and Informatization None Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belpochta" Ministry of Enterprise and Simplification Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications (IBPT) Belgian Post Group (formerly La Poste) Ministry of Public Utilities, Transport, Communications Belize Postal ServicePresumably the country's principal or only postal operator; not listed as designated postal operator on the UPU website. Ministry of Information Technology and Communication Transitional Regulatory Authority "La Poste du Bénin S.A." (Benin Post) Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) Bhutan Information, Communication and Media Authority (BICMA) Bhutan Postal Corporation Ministerio de Servicios, Obras Publicas y Vivenda None Agencia Boliviana de Correos (ABC) Ministry of Communications and Transport Bosnia and Herzegovina Agency for Postal Traffic BH Pošta Pošte SrpskeHrvatska Pošta Mostar Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology None BotswanaPost Ministry of Communications None Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT) Ministry of Communications None Brunei Postal Services Department State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) Bulgarian Posts Ministry of Posts, Information Technology and Communication None La Poste BF Myanma Posts and Telecommunications Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications None Régie nationale des postes (R.N.P. – National Postal Authority) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) None Directorate of Posts (Cambodian Post) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications None Cameroon Postal Services (CAMPOST) Public Services and Procurement Canada None Canada Post Corporation (CPC) Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport National Communications Agency (ANAC) Correios de Cabo Verde, SARL (CCV) Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and New Technologies None National Posts and Savings Corporation (ONPE) Ministry of posts and information and communication technologies None (the regulatory function is assigned to STPE) Chad Posts and Savings Company (STPE) Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Under-Secretariat for Telecommunications None Empresa de Correos de Chile Ministry of Transport State Post Bureau China Post Group: Hongkong Post: Correios de Macau Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications Regulatory Commission of Communications (CRC) and Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) Servicios Postales Nacionales (4–72) Société Nationale des Postes et Services Financiers Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Directorate General of the Central Posts and Telecommunications Administration Congo Posts and Savings Company (SOPECO) None Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos (ARESEP) Correos de Costa Rica Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development Postal Services Council HP-Hrvatska pošta d.d Ministry of Informatics and Communications None Empresa de Correos de Cuba now called Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten Cpost International Ministry of Communications and Public Works Commissioner of Telecommunications and Postal Regulation Department of Postal Services Ministry of Industry and Trade Czech Telecommunications Office (CTO), Ministry of Finance Czech Post Ministry of Posts, Telephones and Telecommunications Autorité de régulation des postes et télécommunications du Congo (ARPTC) Congolese Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (OCPT) Ministry of Transport Faerdselsstyrelsen (Postal Supervisory Department) PostNord