Express Mail Service
The Express Mail Service (EMS) is an international express mail service offered by the members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The member companies jointly founded the EMS within the UPU in 1998 in order to harmonize the development of postal services worldwide and to facilitate international shipping. EMS has had 176 members since it was founded (as of April 2015).
The individual member companies are audited for their quality by an independent third party and the best are awarded each year.
In Germany, EMS shipments are delivered by DHL , in Austria by Austrian Post and in Switzerland by Swiss Post .
prehistory
As early as the 1980s, the Express Mail Service existed to handle cross-border mail. The consignments already had a sticker in the later corporate design , orange / blue, and the words "EMS".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the EMS Cooperative. Universal Postal Union, accessed April 1, 2015 .
- ↑ 2013 EMS Performance Award Winners. (No longer available online.) Universal Postal Union, archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; accessed on April 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ EMS Germany | EMS. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ EMS Austria | EMS. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ EMS Switzerland | EMS. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ^ The introduction of EMS and Datapost in the GDR. (PDF) In: deutsche-einheit.org. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .
- ↑ United States Department of State (ed.): United States Treaties and Other International Agreements, Volume 33, Part 4, 1979-1981 . US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1988, pp. 3888 (English).
