The Bulgarian Posts () are the national
postal service
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sy ...
of
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
.
The company was established in 1992. Although it was transformed into a
joint-stock company
A joint-stock company (JSC) is a business entity in which shares of the company's stock can be bought and sold by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by their shares (certificates of ownership). Shareho ...
in 1997, it is fully
owned by the state.
History
It traces its origin to the Bulgarian Posts and Telecommunications company, was founded as the Bulgarian Posts and Telegraphs after the
Liberation of Bulgaria from
Ottoman rule, as the provisional
Russian administration handed over all
post and
telegraph offices to the newly restored Bulgarian state in 1879. It joined the
General Postal Union in the same year.
Following the end of World War II and the establishment of the
People's Republic of Bulgaria
The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB; , NRB; ) was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; ) together with its coalition partner, the Bulgarian Agraria ...
the was dissolved and divided into two organizations:
Ministry of Railways, Roads and Water Communications and Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones which operated the postal system. From 1957 the Ministry of Post was merged back into the
Ministry of Transport and Communications and the post was under its jurisdiction. In 1981 the postal department and telecommunications department were united to form a state-owned company, the Bulgarian Post and Telecommunications ().
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demise of the communist regime and the establishment of modern Bulgaria, the regulatory part was given to the newly created , and the company itself split into two separate entities: the
Bulgarian Posts took over postal activities while the telecommunication section was incorporated as a
separate company.
On March 31, 1997, "Bulgarian Posts" EOOD was transformed into a joint-stock company.
In 2005, the company operated with 3,008 post offices and a total length of 80,060 km with the postal route. The company was a monopoly in the country in providing universal postal service until 2006.
, Bulgarian Posts reported operating 2,981 post offices
and 4,814
mailboxes.
See also
*
Postage stamps and postal history of Bulgaria
*
Bulgarian Postbank
Postbank ( Bulgarian: Пощенска Банка, Poshtenska Banka), legally known as Eurobank Bulgaria AD (former legal name Eurobank EFG Bulgaria AD, date of change 11/1/2013), is a universal bank in Bulgaria.
History
Bulgarian Postbank was f ...
References
External links
Official website
Government-owned companies of Bulgaria
Postal organizations
Communications in Bulgaria
Bulgarian companies established in 1879
Philately of Bulgaria
Companies established in 1879
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