Georgian Post ( ka, საქართველოს ფოსტა, tr) is a

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courier delivery services company. The Georgian Post represents a leading national postal operator that is mainly involved in providing the consumers with the universal postal services.About GPost
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History

The postal service in Georgia has a long history. Since ancient times the news were transferred rapidly across the country through couriers and messengers mentioned in Kartlis Tskhovreba (). By the end of the 19th century, an important representative of the Georgian economical thought, Ioane Batonishvili, who created the bill of State’s order reform, thought that arranging postal stations would be rather beneficial for the people and provide income for the Treasury. Trade could not have been expanded without postal services, so he demanded that post was established and postal institutions were created. He wrote: “Posts are to be located in three regions:

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, Kakheti and among Tatars”… The Georgian bullock carts are closely linked to the first postal transfers in Georgia. Georgian carts are exhibited at the Popov Central Museum of Communications (in Saint-Petersburg) among the oldest means of postal transportation. Bulls locked in the cart are carrying heavy mailboxes. There are two Georgians ahead of the cart. The improvement of the circulation of mail from Georgia to Russia through the

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was directly linked to the development of postal networks in Georgia.

Timeline

From 1993 Georgia is a member of the

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. In 1901 post offices are opened in

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