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[[Image:LogCorreos.gif|right|thumb|]] '''Correos''' ('''Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos''') is the national postal service of Spain, as recognized by the [[International Postal Union]]. With 63,000 employees and 5 billion pieces of mail sent each year, Correos is one of the largest postal services in the world. |
[[Image:LogCorreos.gif|right|thumb|]] '''Correos''' ('''Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos''') is the national postal service of Spain, as recognized by the [[International Postal Union]]. With 63,000 employees and 5.4 billion pieces of mail sent each year, Correos is one of the largest postal services in the world. Based in Madrid, it has over 10,000 postal centres all over Spain. |
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Based in Madrid, it has over 10,000 postal centres all over Spain. They were the former tenants of the Palacio de las Telecomunicaciones, but have since been ousted, as of 2005 by the [[Community of Madrid]]. |
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==History== |
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==Statistics== |
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*Almost 65,000 people work for Correos: 38,000 people deliver the 5.4 billion deliveries which Correos handles every year; 11,800 sell a wide range of services in its offices and around 2,000 work on tasks of processing, classification, loading and unloading in their logistical centres. |
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*Correos has 12,800 vehicles for the transport and distribution of deliveries with different load capacities, from motorbikes to 24 tonne lorries, which cover more than 340,000Km every day. To put it another way, they cover the equivalent distance of going aound the world 9 times in a day. |
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*Correos' 1,987 multiservice offices which are visited by more than 250,000 customer and clients every day; and the internet office www.correos.es, with 750,000 users every month. Correos has more than 18,000 urban delivery sections and 8,094 service points in rural areas; as well as 54 units of mass admission (UAM) and 61 logistical centres, 15 of which are automatic processing centres (CTA). |
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*In 2005 Correos invested 212 millon euros (without including financial investments) to, among other things, improve infrastructure and equipment, information, communications and automation systems. |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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Revision as of 09:13, 1 May 2007
Correos (Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos) is the national postal service of Spain, as recognized by the International Postal Union. With 63,000 employees and 5.4 billion pieces of mail sent each year, Correos is one of the largest postal services in the world. Based in Madrid, it has over 10,000 postal centres all over Spain.
History
Statistics
- Almost 65,000 people work for Correos: 38,000 people deliver the 5.4 billion deliveries which Correos handles every year; 11,800 sell a wide range of services in its offices and around 2,000 work on tasks of processing, classification, loading and unloading in their logistical centres.
- Correos has 12,800 vehicles for the transport and distribution of deliveries with different load capacities, from motorbikes to 24 tonne lorries, which cover more than 340,000Km every day. To put it another way, they cover the equivalent distance of going aound the world 9 times in a day.
- Correos' 1,987 multiservice offices which are visited by more than 250,000 customer and clients every day; and the internet office www.correos.es, with 750,000 users every month. Correos has more than 18,000 urban delivery sections and 8,094 service points in rural areas; as well as 54 units of mass admission (UAM) and 61 logistical centres, 15 of which are automatic processing centres (CTA).
- In 2005 Correos invested 212 millon euros (without including financial investments) to, among other things, improve infrastructure and equipment, information, communications and automation systems.
External links
- [1] Correos Website