Eesti Post
| AS Eesti Post
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | June 1, 1991 |
| Seat |
 Tallinn , Estonia
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| management | Ahti Kallaste ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 2,889 (Feb 2011) |
| Post offices | 389 (Feb 2011) |
| sales | 772.9 million crowns (2009) |
| Branch | logistics |
| Website | www.post.ee |
The Eesti Post is the national postal operator in Estonia . The company in its current form was founded in 1991 and employs around 2300 people. Eesti Post is headquartered in the Estonian capital Tallinn and operates 388 post offices across the country.
On April 30, 1992, the company rejoined the Universal Postal Union . The first Estonian postage stamps were issued after the country gained independence from the Soviet Union on October 1, 1991. From 1993 until the introduction of the euro in January 2011, postage stamps were issued in the Estonian kroon.
history
The beginnings of the Estonian postal system go back to the 17th century when the Swedish government under the then Queen Christina decreedly expanded the Swedish postal service to Estonia and Livonia in 1638 .
In 1917, the Estonian Post Office had 157 post offices spread across the country. After the occupation of Estonian territory by German troops in the course of the First World War , the occupiers took over the main post office in Tallinn and dissolved the country's postal system that had existed until then. After the end of the war, the Estonian Post Office was re-established on November 13, 1918, and nine days later, on November 22, 1918, the first postage stamp appeared. On May 19, 1922, the Estonian Post joined the Universal Postal Union for the first time . During the Second World War , the post came under the influence of the chaos of the war, but was able to continue operations. At the end of the war in 1945, Estonia had one main post office, eleven administrative centers, 206 post offices and 404 postal agencies. In the following years the postal system was further expanded. From 1955, the increasing motorization of mail transport took place, which until then had mainly been done by horses.
In the course of Estonia's independence from the Soviet Union , today's Eesti Post was founded as a state-owned postal company on June 1, 1991 .
Web links
- Official website of the Eesti Post (English, Estonian and Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eesti Post: 02/21/2011 - Estonian Post closed 2010 with profit. (English)
- ↑ Eesti Post: Annual Report 2009 (PDF, English; 13.4 MB)
- ↑ post.ee history , accessed on April 21, 2011