The Philippine Postal Corporation ( fil, Korporasyong Pangkoreo ng Pilipinas), abbreviated as PHLPost and also known as the Philippine Post Office, is a

government-owned and controlled corporation In the Philippines, a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), sometimes with an "and/or", is a state-owned enterprise that conducts both commercial and non-commercial activity. Examples of the latter would be the Government Service In ...

responsible for providing

postal services 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 syst ...

in the

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. The Philippine Postal Corporation has in excess of 8,000 employees and runs more than 1,355

post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

s nationwide. The Philippine Post Office is based in the Philippines' primary post office, and is currently headed by Postmaster General and CEO Mr. Norman "Postman" N. Fulgencio. The historic

Manila Central Post Office The Manila Central Post Office, often called the Post Office Building, is the main postal office of Manila, which also serves as the home of the Philippine Postal Corporation. It also houses the main mail sorting-distribution operations of the Phi ...

is situated at the Plaza

Liwasang Bonifacio The Liwasang Bonifacio (''Bonifacio Square''), also known by its former name, Plaza Lawton, is a city square and transport hub in front of the Manila Central Post Office in the Ermita district of Manila, Philippines. It lies at the south end of Jo ...

and overlooks the Pasig River. Its policy-making body is the board of directors, headed by its chairman, Mr. Raul R. Bendigo. The board of directors is composed of seven members, including the

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, who serves simultaneously as the

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Previously an attached agency of the

Department of Transportation and Communications The Department of Transportation (DOTr; fil, Kagawaran ng Transportasyon) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the maintenance and expansion of viable, efficient, and dependable transportation systems as eff ...

(DOTC) and the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), the Philippine Postal Corporation is under the direct jurisdiction of the

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. The

Overseas Filipino Bank The Overseas Filipino Bank (OFBank) is the state-owned digital-only, branchless bank in the Philippines. Formerly known as the Philippine Postal Savings Bank (PPSB) or PostBank, it is the smallest of the Philippines' three state-owned banks (t ...

, previously the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, is one of three government-owned banks in the Philippines, it was formerly organized under PHLPost. Now, it is a separate company.

History

The Philippine postal system has a history spanning over 250 years. In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

, which was later organized under a new postal district of

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. At first, the postal office served mainly to courier government and church documents. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago. The postal district was reestablished on December 5, 1837. A year later, Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the

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in 1875, which was announced in the Philippines two years later. By then post offices were set up not only in Manila but in many major towns and cities in the provinces. During the Philippine Revolution, President

Emilio Aguinaldo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (: March 22, 1869February 6, 1964) was a Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who is the youngest president of the Philippines (1899–1901) and is recognized as the first president of the Philippine ...

ordered the establishment of a postal service to provide postal services to Filipinos. It was later organized as a bureau under the

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on September 5, 1902, by virtue of Act No. 426, which was passed by the

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. The Philippines eventually joined the Universal Postal Union, this time as a sovereign entity, on January 1, 1922. While the Manila Central Post Office building, the center of Philippine postal services and the headquarters of the then-Bureau of Posts, was completed in its present-day Neo-Classical style in 1926, it was destroyed during

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. After the war, the Central Post Office was rebuilt in 1946. With the overhaul of the Philippine

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in 1987, the Bureau of Posts was renamed the Postal Service Office (PSO) by Executive Order No. 125, issued by President

Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

on April 13, 1987. It was also on that order that the Post Service Office (PSO) was placed under the DOTC. On April 2, 1992, by Republic Act No. 7354. The Postal Service Office became the present-day PHLPost. The law also granted the Philippines Postal Corporation, the authority to reopen the

Philippine Postal Savings Bank The Overseas Filipino Bank (OFBank) is the state-owned digital-only, branchless bank in the Philippines. Formerly known as the Philippine Postal Savings Bank (PPSB) or PostBank, it is the smallest of the Philippines' three state-owned banks ( ...

, which is now called Overseas Filipino Bank, a subsidiary of LandBank. Presently, Norman N. Fulgencio, a former chairman of the PHLPost board of directors, was appointed as the new Postmaster General and CEO of the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) under the Office of the President on March 15, 2021, by former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

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