Correos de Chile
Correos de Chile, also known as CorreosChile (ChilePost —not to be confused with the private mail and courier company ChilePost), is a Chilean state-owned and autonomous enterprise dedicated to the mailing, money transfers, and national/international courier services, and fulfilling the functions of Universal Postal Service.
Correro Central (National Main Post Office), Santiago | |
Type | State-owned enterprise |
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Industry | Postal services, courier |
Founded | 1750 |
Website | correos |
It was founded in 1750,[1] but created as SOE by the DFL N° 10, December 24 of 1981, dissolving the previous SOE Servicio de Correos y Telégrafos (Post and Telegraph service), separating mailing and Telex services, founding Telex-Chile (that was extinguished as service when Internet becomes massive, but still exists legally as enterprise, providing other telecommunications services). Depends administratively by the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.
Notes
- 260 años del correo en Chile Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, by Alfonso Calderón, Correos de Chile, October 2007, access date February 15th, 2010
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Post of Chile. |
- Sitio oficial de Correos de Chile (in Spanish)
- Sociedad Filatélica de Chile - Philately Society of Chile (in Spanish)
- ChileCollector (in Spanish)
- FilateliaChile Philately Chile (in Spanish)