Correios de São Tomé e Príncipe

Correios de São Tomé e Príncipe is a state-owned company[1] responsible for postal services in São Tomé and Príncipe. It is regulated by AGER (the General Regulation Authority (Autoridade Geral de Regulaçāo)[2]

Correios de São Tomé e Príncipe
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryPostal services
Founded1 January 1982
HeadquartersAvenida Marginal 12 de Julho, C.P. (P.O. Box) 173
São Tomé, São Tomé Island,
São Tomé and Príncipe
Key people
Lúcio Costa, postmaster
ProductsMail Services
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20090428210548/http://www.inh.st/correios.st.htm

Its buildings are at Avenida Marginal 12 de Julho, the most famous street and arterial in the nation.

São Tomé and Príncipe are one of the countries without a postal code system.

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Its logo are coloured red, white and blue. "Correios" is in red. It also has a red envelope with a blue enclosure on top.

History

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After independence, formal postal services existed on the island as early as 1972.[3] São Tomé and Príncipe entered the Universal Postal Union in 1977.[4] and the company was created on 1 January 1982 to meet the resulting obligations related to postal services.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Fonds monétaire international (1997). Sao Tome and Principe: Recent Economic Developments and Selected Issues. International Monetary Fund. pp. 103–. ISBN 9781451834970. GGKEY:1WYL36Q13GW.
  2. ^ Decree-law no. 14/2005 of 24 August 2005
  3. ^ "Jornal Transparência - Diário de São Tomé e Príncipe".
  4. ^ "Universal Postal Union - Sao Tome and Principe". www.upu.int. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06.