Posta Shqiptare

The Posta Shqiptare Sh. a is the national postal company in Albania. The joint stock company belongs to one hundred percent of the Albanian State and the Ministry of Innovation, IT and communication assumed. In 2011, there were 553 post offices across the country. Among other things, international money transfers, paying out pensions, retraction of fees and invoice amounts for individual services - - In addition to postal services, especially large number of financial services are offered.

History

As Albania was still part of the Ottoman Empire, there was next to the Turkish post office still branches of the imperial Post and the Italian Post Office. Just a week after the proclamation of independence of Albania, a Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone was appointed in early December 1912. The Albanian Post took over the former post offices in the Ottoman administration. In May 1913, the first postage stamps were issued by the Ministry. The second postage stamps, issued in June 1913 and initially stamped on envelopes, comes from the post offices of the Provisional Government (Albanian Postat e Qeverriës së Përkohëshme ). During the war turmoil of the First World War, there was no national postal system; various cities and regions attempted independently to maintain the postal service anyway. 1922 came the first time right stamps in circulation. They were decorated with the Posta Shyptare. The Albanian Post is a member of the Universal Postal Union since 1922. In a country where the inhabitants were mostly illiterate, there were in the 1930s, only 28 post offices.

After the Second World War, the postal system was expanded slowly. The number of letters and parcels transported increased from 7.342 million in 1950 to 22.624 million in 1970, but to go back to 1988 to 14.228 million pieces. Lack of confidence in the reliability of the post led to the late 1980s, almost a third of shipments has been sent enrolled. Because of the poorly -developed telephone network at that time also around four million messages per year have been sent. In communist Albania mailings were heavily controlled and censored.

With the collapse of the totalitarian regime in 1991 began for the Albanian Post a difficult transition phase during which only limited services were rendered and lost many customers trust in the mail. In 1991, transported the run-down post only 9.7 million letters and 82,000 parcels and 40.5 million newspapers. In 1992, the telecommunications services have been outsourced to an independent company called Albanian Telecom and aligned the postal services market economy.

As of 2005, Posta Shqiptare was reorganized and equipped with modern technical aids. The extensive investments led to a significant increase in revenues and number of employees and a small expansion of the branch network. 2006 postcodes were also first established.