Correos de México

Correos de México
Correos de Mexico
Type Government-owned corporation
Industry Courier
Founded 1580
Headquarters Palacio de Correos de Mexico
Products First-class and domestic mail, logistics
Employees 21,824
Parent Government of Mexico
Website sepomex.gob.mx
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Correos de México (formerly Servicio Postal Mexicano (Sepomex)) is the national postal service of Mexico.

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Overview

On February 17, 1907 the president of Mexico Porfirio Diaz founded the "Palacio Postal" (postal palace) also known as the "Quinta Casa de Correos" (Fifth house of post).

But Mexico had had a postal service since 1580. The office's main job was to communicate the viceroyalty of New Spain with the metropoli Spain.

International Postal Union

In 1921 Sepomex, in need of an international regulatory and unified postal service, the Mexican government participated in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina in the formation of the "Unión Panamericana de Correos" (Panamerican Postal Union.) In 1931, Spain joined the union, which changed the name to "Unión Postal de las Américas y España" (American and Spain Postal Union.) In 1990, Portugal was added to the union, which again changed the name to "Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal" (American, Spain and Portugal Postal Union).

Mail and Telegraph

In 1933, by presidential order, the Postal service took control of the telegraph service in Mexico, creating the office "Dirección General de Correos y Telegrafos."

In 1942, the president ordered the separation of the postal service and telegraph into two entities.

Autonomy

In 1986, the government gave autonomy to the Postal Service. This was in response to the need to improve the service, which was considered one of the worst in the world and was now facing competition from private companies.

In order to compete with the private postal services like DHL, UPS, FedEx, Multipack, Estafeta and others the postal service created a new entity, "Mexpost," more expensive than normal postal service but also more efficient working as a private company but still being part of the Mexican Postal Service.

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Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2002

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