New Zealand Post
| New Zealand Post (NZPost)
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | February 24, 1987 |
| Seat | Wellington , New Zealand |
| management | Brian Roche ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 11,432 June 30, 2010 |
| sales | NZD 1.204 billion in 2010 |
| Branch | Post , banking , logistics , finance |
| Website | www.nzpost.co.nz |
The New Zealand Post (NZPost) is a state-owned postal company in New Zealand .
Additional independent subsidiaries are managed under the umbrella of NZPost , which also presents itself as the New Zealand Post Group . These include u. a. the Kiwibank Limited, which Datam Limited, and as a joint venture controlled entities Parcel Direct Group (PDG) in Australia and Express Couriers Limited in New Zealand. The German DHL holds a stake in the last two companies mentioned through Deutsche Post Beteiligungen Holding GmbH . Express Couriers was founded on March 22, 2004 with a 50% stake together with NZPost. The ParcelDirect Group followed in 2008 as a joint venture with NZPost and six other parcel service companies operating regionally in Australia.
history
In 1840, New Zealand's first post office was opened in Kororāreka, now known as Russell . 40 years later there were already over 850 post offices spread across the country. In 1881 the Post Office Department was merged with the Electric Telegraph Department , creating the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department , which was later renamed the New Zealand Post Office (NZPO) and at the turn of the century the number of post offices was already over 1,700.
With the rapidly increasing settlement of New Zealand and its growing economic development, the post offices took on important functions of political, social and economic life. In addition to telecommunications and postal services , the third important pillar was the post office, which was expanded into the Savings Bank . In addition, the office offered a wide variety of services, such as registration of births, marriages and deaths, took over vehicle registrations, paid out pensions, collected television fees and license fees for fishing licenses, and also supplied weather data to the responsible weather authorities. The postmasters were even authorized to hold weddings.
In the course of the privatization of state tasks and state-owned companies, triggered by the Labor government under Prime Minister David Lange , the New Zealand Post Office was dissolved and on April 1, 1987 divided into three independent companies. The Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited and the Post Office Bank Limited were later privatized and the New Zealand Post as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) (Public companies) continue. The Post Office Bank was sold as Postbank to the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) in 1989 . The Telecom Corporation of New Zealand followed in 1990 through the sale to Bell Atlantic and Ameritech , a subsidiary of AT&T .
literature
- New Zealand Post Group (Ed.): Annual Report 2010 . Wellington September 15, 2010 (English).
Web links
- History of New Zealand Post. New Zealand Post, accessed January 4, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Zealand Post Limited. New Zealand Companies Office, accessed January 4, 2011 .
- ^ New Zealand Post Group (ed.): Annual Report 2010 . Wellington September 15, 2010, p. 44 (English).
- ^ New Zealand Post Group (ed.): Annual Report 2010 . Wellington September 15, 2010, p. 70 ff . (English).
- ^ New Zealand Post Group. New Zealand Post, accessed January 4, 2011 .
- ^ Express Couriers Limited. New Zealand Companies Office, accessed January 4, 2011 .
- ↑ About Us. (No longer available online.) Hills ParcelDirect, archived from the original on February 15, 2011 ; accessed on September 1, 2014 (English, original website no longer available).
- ^ History of ANZ. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, accessed January 4, 2011 .
- ^ History of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited. Reference for Business, accessed January 4, 2011 .