- Russian Post
Russian Post ( _ru. Почта России), is the
Unitary enterprise postal operator ofRussia . The company is responsible for the delivery ofmail in Russia, and the issuing ofpostage stamp s. Russian Post employs about 390,000 people and has over 40,000 postal offices.Russian Post cooperates with
Sviaz-Bank ( [http://www.sviaz-bank.ru/en/index.xml] ).History
Russian Post is a founding member of the
Universal Postal Union created in 1874. In 1902 Chief Postal Service was made part of the Internal Affairs Ministry and in 1917 under the Provisional Government it became part of Ministry of Post andTelegraph . During theGreat Patriotic War Soviet postal service part ofPeople's Commissar iat of communications was delivering up to 70 million mails per month to the Soviet army front from the rear under extremely difficult and often very dangerous conditions.Russian Federation
In 1993 Russian Post became a part of Ministry of Communications and in 2002, its status changed from a government ministry to a
Unitary enterprise in the framework of the restructuring the federal postal communication agencies. The company's headquarters are located inMoscow .In 2008,
Andrey Kazmin , former CEO ofSberbank was appointed to the CEO of the company. [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Appointment | work =Press Center: News | publisher =Russian Post | date =2007-12-19 | url =http://www.russianpost.ru/company/en/home/press/news/item?newsid=3003 | format = | doi = | accessdate =2008-01-06 ]peed and reliability
Post send from abroad to Russia is unreliable, [Horton, Patrick "Russia and Belarus" by
Lonely Planet Country Guide ISBN 1741042917, page 710-711] but sometimes post sent from abroad is delivered faster than internal post.References
ee also
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Communications in Russia
*Postage stamps and postal history of Russia
*Russian post offices in China
*Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire
*Russian post offices in Crete External links
* [http://www.russianpost.ru/portal/en/home Official website] en icon ru icon
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