JSC Ukrainian Postal Service or Ukrposhta ( uk, Укрпошта) is the national postal service of

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. It is a

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with 100% state ownership due to its strategic importance. In 1999–2015 it was a

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of the

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. Ukrposhta has been a member of

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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 The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

and was centered in

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. 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 (

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and decentralization, see

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), in 1991,

Ukrtelecom Ukrtelecom JSC ( uk, Укртелеком) ( PFTS:br>UTLM is Ukraine's monopolist telephone company, also active in the ISP and mobile markets. The company was governed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Ukraine with 92.9 ...

was created in

Soviet Ukraine The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

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

, after which Ukrposhta has been providing

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, while Ukrtelecom has been providing telephone and telegraph services. In July 1998 Ukrposhta was reformed again on a

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request. It is currently managed by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and the

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decrees. Ukrposhta's activities are regulated by the Law of Ukraine "On Postal Service" (in force since 4 October 2001) and other laws including regulations of the

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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 Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

, and in December left the territories of the recognized DPR and LPR. 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

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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.

References

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