Bulgarian Posts
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{{Infobox company
|logo = Bgposts-logo.png
|logo_size = 200px
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|type = Joint stock company
(state-owned)
|industry = Postal services
|foundation = {{start date and age|1879}}
|location = Sofia, Bulgaria
|num_employees = around 13,000 (2016)
|website = [https://www.bgpost.bg/ bgpost.bg]
}}
Image:Academia-2.jpg, Livingston Island, Antarctica is the southernmost Bulgarian Posts office in the world]]
The Bulgarian Posts ({{langx|bg|Български пощи|lit=|translit=Balgarski poshti}}) are the national postal service of Bulgaria.{{cite journal |last1=Otsetova |first1=Anna |last2=Nedelchev |first2=Lian |year=2018 |title=Universal Postal Service Market in Bulgaria: State and Challenges |url=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol25/ijita25-02-p05.pdf |access-date=20 March 2021 |journal=Information Theories and Applications |publisher=Institute of Information Theories and Applications |publication-place=Sofia |volume=25 |issue=2 |page=61 |issn=1313-0463 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801072330/http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol25/ijita25-02-p05.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2019 |url-status=live}} The company was established in 1992. Although it was transformed into a joint-stock company in 1997, it is fully owned by the state.{{cite web |url=https://www.mtitc.government.bg/en/category/15 |title=Companies and state enterprises |author= |date=n.d. |publisher=Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications |location=Sofia |access-date=21 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204011108/https://www.mtitc.government.bg/en/category/15 |archive-date=4 December 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bgpost.bg/en/181 |title=History |author= |date=n.d. |publisher=Bulgarian Posts |access-date=20 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202224305/https://www.bgpost.bg/en/181 |archive-date=2 December 2020}}{{cite report |author= |date=27 June 2001 |title=Performance Audit Report on Bulgaria |url=http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/781681511185861665/text/multi0page.txt |publisher=The World Bank |format=TXT |location=Washington, D.C. |section=Background |at=1.1 |access-date=20 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320222937/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/781681511185861665/text/multi0page.txt |archive-date=20 March 2021}}
History
It traces its origin to the Bulgarian Posts and Telecommunications company, was founded as the Bulgarian Posts and Telegraphs after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, as the provisional Russian administration handed over all post and telegraph offices to the newly restored Bulgarian state in 1879. It joined the General Postal Union in the same year.{{cite book |author= |year=1907 |chapter=Roads and Means of Communication |title=Bulgaria of To-Day |location=London |publisher=Bulgarian Ministry Of Commerce and Agriculture |pages=219–226 |oclc=1151723802 |ol=13802098W |url=https://archive.org/details/bulgariatoday00bulggoog }}
Following the end of World War II and the establishment of the People's Republic of Bulgaria the {{ill|Ministry of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs of Bulgaria|bg|Министерство на железниците, пощите и телеграфите на България}} was dissolved and divided into two organizations: Ministry of Railways, Roads and Water Communications and Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones which operated the postal system. From 1957 the Ministry of Post was merged back into the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the post was under its jurisdiction. In 1981 the postal department and telecommunications department were united to form a state-owned company, the Bulgarian Post and Telecommunications ({{langx|bg|Български пощи и далекосъобщения}}).Станчев Д. [http://www.vestnik-sviazy.ru/post/z/images/102008/PS_10_4_5.pdf Почтовые услуги в Болгарии]{{dead link|bot=InternetArchiveBot |date=June 2025}} // Почтовая связь. Техника и технологии. — 2008. — № 10. — С. 4—5.{{v|3|4|2011}} {{dead|accessdate=2018-07|bot=InternetArchiveBot|date=June 2025}} In 1992 following the demise of the communist regime and the establishment of modern Bulgaria, the regulatory part was given to the newly created {{ill|lt=Committee for Post and Telecommunications|Committee for Communications Regulation|bg|Комисия за регулиране на съобщенията}}, and the company itself split into two separate entities: the Bulgarian Posts took over postal activities while the telecommunication section was incorporated as a separate company.
On March 31, 1997, "Bulgarian Posts" EOOD was transformed into a joint-stock company.
In 2005, the company operated with 3,008 post offices and a total length of 80,060 km with the postal route. The company was a monopoly in the country in providing universal postal service until 2006.
{{As of|2016}}, Bulgarian Posts reported operating 2,981 post offices and 4,814 mailboxes.{{cite journal |last1=Pencheva |first1=Velizara |last2=Asenov |first2=Asen |last3=Topchu |first3=Dzhema |last4=Beloev |first4=Ivan |last5=Evstatiev |first5=Boris |display-authors=1 |year=2017 |title=Organisation of the Work on Collecting Routes in Postal Activity Through an Automated System for Collection of Information |url=http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2017/zeszyt3/2017t12z3_14.pdf |access-date=20 March 2021 |journal=Transport Problems |publisher=Silesian University of Technology |publication-place=Katowice |volume=12 |issue=3 |page=147 |doi=10.20858/tp.2017.12.3.14 |issn=2300-861X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202073605/http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2017/zeszyt3/2017t12z3_14.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2017 |url-status=live}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.bgpost.bg/ Official website]
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Category:Government-owned companies of Bulgaria
Category:Communications in Bulgaria
Category:Bulgarian companies established in 1879
Category:Philately of Bulgaria
Category:Companies established in 1879
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