List of postal entities
This is a list of postal entities by country. It includes:
- The governmental authority responsible for postal matters.
- The regulatory authority for the postal sector. Postal regulation may include the establishment of postal policies, postal rates, postal services offered, budgeting for and financing postal operations. Where no independent postal regulator has been established, these tasks may be undertaken by the government or the operator. They may be carried out by a single entity or spread out amongst multiple government, quasi-government or private entities.
- The designated postal operator of that country. Notable postal operators other than the designated operator, if any, may also be listed. Postal operations involve the execution of domestic and international postal services to include the receipt, transportation and delivery of authorized classes of mail, specialized mailing services, the operation of postal facilities and the sale of postage, philatelic materials and mailing supplies.
List
UPU members
The following list uses the structure and terminology of the document Status and structures of postal entities in the UPU member countries. This document, published in 2009 by the Universal Postal Union, contains data for 162 of the 191 countries and territories that were then UPU members. For these countries, which are marked below, the list's contents are based on that document.Since this document was published, the UPU has had two changes of membership:
- On 10 October 2010, the Netherlands Antilles, which shared a UPU membership with Aruba, was dissolved. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, collectively known as the Caribbean Netherlands, became an integral part of the Netherlands. Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This UPU entity, formerly "Netherlands Antilles and Aruba", is now known as "Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten".
- South Sudan joined the UPU on 4 October 2011.
| Country | Governmental authority | Regulatory authority | Designated operator |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies | - | Afghanistan Postal Service |
| Posta Shqiptare | |||
| Ministère de la Poste et des TIC | Algérie Poste | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies | Instituto Angolano das Comunicações | Empresa Nacional de Correios e Telégrafos de Angola |
| Antigua Post Office | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services | Communications Secretariat of MinPlan | Correo Oficial de la República Argentina S.A. |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Communication, State Estate Managing Department | Public Services Regulatory Commission | "Haypost" CJSC |
| Post Aruba | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Department of Communications | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Postal Services Consultative Council | Australia Post |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology | RTR GmbH | Österreichische Post AG |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Information Technology | - | "Azərpoçt" State Enterprise |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Public Works and Transport | - | Bahamas Postal Service |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport | - | Bahrain Post |
| Ministry of Post and Telecommunication | Bangladesh Post Office | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Home Affairs | - | Barbados Postal Service |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Informatization | - | Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belpochta" |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Enterprise and Simplification | Belgian Institute of Postal Services and Telecommunications | Belgian Post Group |
| Ministry of Public Utilities, Transport, Communications | Belize Postal Service | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Information Technology and Communication | Transitional Regulatory Authority | "La Poste du Bénin S.A." |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Information and Communications | Bhutan Information, Communication and Media Authority | Bhutan Postal Corporation Ltd |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministerio de Servicios, Obras Publicas y Vivenda | - | Empresa de Correos de Bolivia |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Transport | Bosnia and Herzegovina Agency for Postal Traffic | BH Pošta Pošte Srpske Hrvatska Pošta Mostar |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology | - | BotswanaPost |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications | - | Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications | - | Brunei Postal Services Department |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications | Communications Regulation Commission | Bulgarian Posts |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts, Information Technology and Communication | - | Société nationale des postes |
| Myanma Posts and Telecommunications | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications | - | Régie nationale des postes |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications | - | Directorate of Posts |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications | - | Cameroon Postal Services |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation | - | Canada Post Corporation |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport | National Communications Agency | Correios de Cabo Verde, SARL |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and New Technologies | - | National Posts and Savings Corporation |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of posts and information and communication technologies | None | Chad Posts and Savings Company |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Under-Secretariat for Telecommunications | - | Empresa de Correos de Chile |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport | State Post Bureau | China Post Group Hong Kong: Hongkong Post Macao: Correios de Macau |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications | Regulatory Commission of Communications and Superintendency of Industry and Commerce | Servicios Postales Nacionales S.A. |
| Société Nationale des Postes et des Services Financiers | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications | Directorate General of the Central Posts and Telecommunications Administration | Congo Posts and Savings Company |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | - | Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos | Correos de Costa Rica SA |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development | Postal Services Council | HP-Hrvatska pošta d.d |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Informatics and Communications | - | Empresa de Correos de Cuba |
| Cpost International | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Public Works | Commissioner of Telecommunications and Postal Regulation | Department of Postal Services |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Industry and Trade | Czech Telecommunications Office, Ministry of Finance | Czech Post |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Posts, Telephones and Telecommunications | Autorité de régulation des postes et télécommunications du Congo | Congolese Posts and Telecommunications Corporation |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport | Faerdselsstyrelsen | Post Denmark A/S Other operators: Bring Citymail |
| Djibouti Post | |||
| Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Ports | General Post Office | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Public Works and Communications | - | Instituto Postal Dominicano |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Correos del Ecuador, attached to the office of the Vice-President of the Republic of Ecuador | Agencia Nacional Postal | Correos del Ecuador |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies | - | National Postal Authority |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Gobernacíon | - | General Postal Directorate |
| Ente autónomo de Guinea Ecuatorial de Correos y Telecomunicaciones | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Communication | Eritrean Communications Department | Eritrean Postal Service |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications | Estonian National Communications Board | Estonian Post |
| Eswatini Posts and Telecommunications | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Communications | - | Ethiopian Postal Service |
| Post Fiji | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Communications | Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority Åland: Åland Government/Unit of Administration | Posti Group Corporation Åland: Åland Post |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment | Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation Authority | La Poste |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communication, Post, Telecommunications and New Information Technologies | Postal Regulatory Agency | La Poste S.A |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communication, Information and Technology | - | Gambia Postal Services Corporation |
| Georgian Post | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology | Federal Network Agency | Several operators, due to competition. Deutsche Post AG has the largest market share. |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications | Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission | Ghana Post Company Limited |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | Postal Services Commission British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have separate operators and regulatory arrangements. | Royal Mail Group Plc. Other operators:British Forces Post Office 55 other licensed operators as of 2011 |
| British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies |
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| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Transport and Communications | EETT | Hellenic Post S.A. |
| Grenada Postal Corporation | |||
| El Correo | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communication and New Information Technologies | Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority | Office de la poste guinéenne |
| Correios da Guiné-Bissau | |||
| Guyana Post Office Corporation | |||
| Office des Postes d'Haiti | |||
| Honducor | |||
| Magyar Posta | |||
| Ministry of the Interior | Post and Telecom Administration | Íslandspóstur | |
| Ministry of Communications and Information Technology | Department of Posts | India Post | |
| Ministry of Communication and Information Technology | Pos Indonesia | ||
| IRI Post | |||
| Iraqi Telecommunications and Post Company | |||
| Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport | Commission for Communications Regulation | An Post | |
| Israel Post | |||
| Ministry of Economic Development | Agenzia nazionale di regolamentazione del settore postale | Poste italiane | |
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of New Information Technology and Telecommunications | - | La Poste |
| Postal Corporation of Jamaica | |||
| Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications | Postal Services Policy Department | Japan Post Holdings | |
| Jordan Post Company | |||
| Ministry of Investment and Development | Committee for Communication, Informatisation and Information | Kazpost | |
| Ministry of Information and Communications Technology | Communications Authority of Kenya | Postal Corporation of Kenya | |
| Kiribati Public Service Public | |||
| Ministry of Communications | |||
| Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan | State Communication Agency | Kyrgyz Express Post "Kyrgyz Pochtasy" SE | |
| Latvijas Pasts | |||
| LibanPost | |||
| Lesotho Post | |||
| Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications | |||
| General Posts and Telecommunications Company | |||
| Liechtensteinische Post | |||
| Lietuvos paštas | |||
| Post Luxembourg | |||
| Makedonska Pošta | |||
| Paositra Malagasy | |||
| Malawi Posts Corporation | |||
| Ministry of Telecommunications and Multimedia Malaysia | Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission | Pos Malaysia | |
| Maldives Post | |||
| Office national des postes du Mali | |||
| Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Communications | Malta Communications Authority | MaltaPost | |
| La Société Mauritanienne des Postes | |||
| Mauritius Post | |||
| Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes | Correos de México | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Information Development | Posta Moldovei | |
| La Poste Monaco | |||
| Mongol Post | |||
| Pošta Crne Gore | |||
| Poste Maroc | |||
| Correios de Moçambique | |||
| NamPost | |||
| Nauru General Post Office - Departament of Chief Secretary | |||
| Nepal Post | |||
| Ministry of Economic Affairs | OPTA/Authority for Consumers & Markets | PostNL | |
| FXDC Post | |||
| New Zealand Post | |||
| Correos de Nicaragua | |||
| Niger Poste | |||
| Nigerian Postal Service | |||
| Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications | Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation | ||
| Posten | |||
| Oman Post | |||
| Pakistan Post | |||
| Correos de Panamá | |||
| Post PNG | |||
| Correo Nacional Paraguayo | |||
| Serpost | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Philippine Postal Corporation | ||
| Ministry of Infrastructure | Poczta Polska | ||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | ANACOM | CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A. | |
| Qatar Post | |||
| #cite note-UPU-0| | Ministry of Communications and Information Society | National Regulatory Authority for Communications - ANCOM | Poșta Română |
| Russian Post | |||
| National Post Office | |||
| St. Kitts & Nevis Postal Services | |||
| Saint Lucia Postal Service | |||
| SVG Postal Corporation | |||
| Samoa Post | |||
| Poste sammarinesi | |||
| Correios de São Tomé e Príncipe | |||
| Saudi Post | |||
| La Poste Senegal | |||
| Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications | Republic agency for Postal Services | Pošta Srbije | |
| Seychelles Postal Service | |||
| SALPOST | |||
| Singapore Post | |||
| Postal Services St. Maarten | |||
| Slovenská pošta | |||
| Pošta Slovenije | |||
| Solomon Post | |||
| Minister of Information, Posts and Telecommunications | Somali Postal Service | ||
| South African Post Office | |||
| Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning | Korea Post | ||
| Minister of Telecommunication and Postal Services | |||
| Correos | |||
| Ministry of Posts, Postal Services & Muslim Religious Affairs | Department of Post | Sri Lanka Post | |
| Surpost | |||
| Ministry of Enterprise | Swedish Post and Telecom Authority | PostNord Sverige Other operators: Over 30 other licensed operators as of 2014 | |
| Swiss Post | |||
| Syrian Post | |||
| Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority Tanzania Posts Corporation | |||
| Ministry of Transport | - | Thailand Post | |
| La Poste du Togo | |||
| Tonga Post | |||
| TTPost | |||
| La Poste Tunisienne | |||
| PTT | |||
| Turkmenpochta | |||
| Uganda Communications Commission | Posta Uganda | ||
| Ukrposhta | |||
| Empost | |||
| United States Postal Service | Postal Regulatory Commission | United States Postal Service | |
| Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones | Correo Uruguayo | ||
| O′zbekiston Pochtasi | |||
| Vanuatu Post | |||
| Poste Vaticane | |||
| IPOSTEL | |||
| Vietnam Post Corporation | |||
| Yemen Post | |||
| ZamPost | |||
| ZimPost |
;Notes:
Countries or territories that are not members of the UPU
| Country or territory | Governmental authority | Regulatory authority | Operator |
| Post and Telecom of Kosovo | |||
| West Bank : Palestinian Ministry of Telecom & IT Gaza Strip : Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology | West Bank: Palestine Post | ||
| Ministry of Transportation and Communications | - | Chunghwa Post |