Gambia Postal Services Corporation

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The Gambia Postal Services Corporation (GPSC) or more commonly: GAMPOST is the national postal company of the West African state of Gambia . As an agency, it is subordinate to the Ministry of Information and Communication (Gambia) (MoICT). GPSC is based in the capital Banjul , south of Albert Market on Liberation Avenue .

tasks

The company is responsible for the delivery of letters, packages and parcels. The GPSC has a legally secured monopoly on letters and shipments weighing less than two kilograms. A letter delivery to your home or to the company headquarters, as we know it from Germany, does not take place. If you want to receive mail, you have to rent a PO box and collect your mail yourself.

history

A postage stamp from the British colony of Gambia dating from 1880

In 1858 the colonial government of the British colony of British Gambia set up a postal service. In 1922 the ship Prince of Wales was the first to set up a floating post office ( English Traveling Post Office ), which also supplied the more distant towns along the Gambia with postal services. The Department of Posts was spun off from the pre-existing Department of Posts and Telecommunications in 1976 when the postal and telecommunications authorities were separated.

In 1984 the government commissioned a study into creating a stand-alone post office, with the result that a stand-alone business was not viable. A new study in 2004/2005 came to the opposite conclusion; Subsequently, with the Gambia Postal Services Corporation (GAMPOST) Act in December 2005, the National Assembly decided to create an independent post office.

From January to July 2006 there was a transition period, then the board was elected under the chairmanship of Gibi Chorr.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Gambia Post Office (Gampost) accessgambia.com; accessed in August 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e Gambia Postal Services Corporation ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. accessed in August 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gampost.gm
  3. ^ Post Office Goes Semi-Autonomous . The Daily Observer , May 24, 2006

Coordinates: 13 ° 27 ′ 12.6 "  N , 16 ° 34 ′ 18.6"  W.