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Ukrainian Postal Service or Ukrposhta ( uk, Укрпошта) is the national postal service of
Ukraine. It is a
public company with 100% state ownership due to its strategic importance. In 1999–2015 it was a
unitary enterprise of the
government of Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...
. Ukrposhta has been a member of
Universal Postal Union since 1947 and the owner of national stamp issuing enterprise "Ukraine Stamps" ( uk, Марки України).
History
Ukrposhta operated within the
Soviet Ministry of Telecommunications (Administration of Postal Communication, russian: Управление почтовой связи) as its republican branch on territory of the
Ukrainian SSR and was centered in
Moscow. The Ukrainian SSR did not have a separate system of telecommunications and was completely integrated within the Soviet system of telecommunications. As part of the Gorbachev reforms (
perestroika
''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...
and decentralization, see
Union of Sovereign States), in 1991,
Ukrtelecom was created in
Soviet Ukraine which took over administration of all means of communication such as postal and signal.
In 1994 Ukrposhta started to operate as a separate business entity following the restructuring of
Ukrtelecom, after which Ukrposhta has been providing
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 syst ...
, while Ukrtelecom has been providing telephone and telegraph services.
In July 1998 Ukrposhta was reformed again on a
government request.
It is currently managed by the
Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство інфраструктури України) functions as the main executive body that controls Ukraine's transportation infrastructure including roads, trains, and communic ...
and the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decrees.
Ukrposhta's activities are regulated by the
Law of Ukraine
The legal system of Ukraine is based on the framework of civil law, and belongs to the Romano-Germanic legal tradition. The main source of legal information is codified law. Customary law and case law are not as common, though case law is oft ...
"On Postal Service" (in force since 4 October 2001) and other laws including regulations of the
UPU
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.
Structure
In 2016 Ukrposhta revealed company overview and statistics of 2015:
*27
Regional administrative directories;
*12 000 post offices (including 9 000 in rural areas);
*73 000 employees (Postmen – 32.0; operators −13.7; Sorters – 2.6)
*200.9 million of postal items annual processing and delivery, including:
:15.4 million insured items;
:11.1 million orders;
:74.0 million pensions delivered;
*Direct fetching to 15 million subscriber mailboxes;
*Subscription distribution: 500.7 million copies a year;
*Transporting 31 tons annually; total vehicles mileage covering 72 million km;
Impact of events in 2014
The events of 2014 narrowed the scope of the company's geographical activities: in April of this year, Ukrposhta ceased operations in the Crimea and
Sevastopol, and in December left the territories of the recognized
DPR and
LPR
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. On the basis of its infrastructure in these regions, the “Post of Crimea” (from April 21), “Post of Donbass” (from December 2) and “LNR Post” appeared respectively. For reference, as of the beginning of 2014, Ukrposhta had 553 post offices and 221 vehicles to transport mail to Crimea. About 4.7 thousand people, or about 5% of its workforce, were involved in the directorates of Ukrposhta on the peninsula.
Starting from March 27, 2014, postal items sent by "Ukrposhta" from the mainland of Ukraine are not accepted by the postal service of Crimea and Sevastopol and are returned back. Under these circumstances, "Ukrposhta" is not able to forward postal items to the Crimean peninsula. Given the current situation, Ukrposhta has suspended the acceptance of postal items to Crimea.
2022
On September 29, 2022, Putin signed an invalid and internationally unrecognized decree recognizing 2 Ukrainian regions as independent. In response,
Ihor Smelyanskyy, CEO of Ukraine's national postal operator Ukrposhta, signed an order with the same legal force as Putin's decree — to recognize the territory of the Moscow
Kremlin
The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty, Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of th ...
as the property of Ukrposhta and open a post office there with a Ukrainian postal code. To emphasize the absurdity of the situation, the text of the decree almost verbatim copies the text of Putin's decree but lobbies for the interests of Ukrainians.
See also
*
Postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine.
Ukraine is a republic in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Mol ...
*
Donbass Post
Donbas Post (; ) is an enterprise that operates the postal system of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, the non-recognized entities created by Russia-backed separatists on the illegally annexed Ukra ...
- the postal administration of the unrecognized self-declared
Donetsk People's Republic
The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a Territorial ...
*
Post of Crimea - the postal administration that covers the
territory of Crimea, which is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but it is annexed by Russia in 2014.
References
External links
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