Posta Shqiptare

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Posta Shqiptare sh. a.
legal form Corporation
founding December 5, 1912
Seat AlbaniaAlbania Tirana , Albania
management Arqile Gorea (Managing Director)
Number of employees 2233 (2009)
Post offices 550
sales 1.661 billion lek (2009)
Branch Postal system , logistics
Website www.postashqiptare.al

The Posta Shqiptare Sh. a. is the national postal company of Albania . The joint-stock company is wholly owned by the Albanian state and is subordinate to the Ministry of Innovation, IT and Communication. In 2011 there were 553 post offices across the country . In addition to postal services, numerous financial services are also offered - including international transfers, paying out pensions, collecting fees and invoices for individual service providers.

history

Imprint from June 1913 on a 25 piastre Turkish postage stamp

When Albania was still part of the Ottoman Empire , there were branches of the Austro-Hungarian Post and the Italian Post in addition to the Turkish Post . Just a week after Albania's independence was proclaimed, in early December 1912 a minister of post, telegraph and telephone was appointed. The Albanian Post took over the former post offices of the Ottoman administration. In May 1913 the Ministry issued the first postage stamps . The second postage stamp, which was issued from June 1913 and was initially stamped on envelopes, comes from the post offices of the Provisional Government ( Albanian  Postat e Qeverriës së Përkohëshme ). During the chaos of World War I , there was no nationwide postal system; various cities and regions tried independently to somehow maintain the postal service. In 1922 real postage stamps came into circulation for the first time. They were labeled Posta Shyptare . The Albanian Post has been a member of the Universal Postal Union since 1922 . In a country where the majority of the population were illiterate , there were only 28 post offices in the 1930s.

After the Second World War , the postal system was slowly expanded. The number of letters and parcels transported rose from 7,342,000 in 1950 to 22,624,000 in 1970, but fell to 14,228,000 in 1988. A lack of confidence in the reliability of the Post resulted in almost a third of all items being sent by registered mail at the end of the 1980s . Because of the poorly developed telephone network, around four million telegrams were sent every year. In communist Albania, mail was heavily controlled and censored.

With the collapse of the totalitarian regime in 1991, a difficult phase of transformation began for the Albanian Post, during which only limited services could be provided and many customers lost their trust in the Post. In 1991, the run-down postal service only transported 9.7 million letters and 82,000 parcels and 40.5 million newspapers. In 1992 the telecommunications services were spun off into an independent company called Albanian Telecom and the postal services geared towards the market economy.

Post Office of Tamara , Northern Albania (2012)

From 2005 Posta Shqiptare was reorganized and technically equipped with modern aids. The extensive investments led to a significant increase in sales as well as the number of employees and a small expansion of the branch network. Postcodes were also set for the first time in 2006 .

Web links

Commons : Albanian Post  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Treguesit e sherbimeve ne periudhen 2005-2009. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on October 11, 2010 ; Retrieved December 27, 2011 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ Misioni. In: Posta Shqiptare. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Albanian).
  3. ^ Structure. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011 ; accessed on December 27, 2011 (English).
  4. ↑ Njoftim për shtyp: Project "Internet falas" confirms si sukses i "Shqipërisë në moshën e internetit". In: Ministri i Inovacionit dhe Teknologjise se Informacionit dhe Komunikimit. July 28, 2011, Retrieved February 6, 2016 (Albanian).
  5. ^ Financial and Economic Data. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Mission. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Analiza e Pune's e Vitit 2009. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on October 11, 2010 ; Retrieved December 27, 2011 (Albanian).
  8. ↑ a b c Markus WE Peters: Small post and postage stamp customer in Albania . In: Walter Raunig (ed.): Albania - wealth and diversity of ancient culture . State Museum for Ethnology, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-9807561-2-2 , p. 189-208 .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g History. In: Posta Shqiptare. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011 ; accessed on December 27, 2011 (English).
  10. ↑ Universal Postal Union. Retrieved December 27, 2011 .
  11. ^ Raymond Hutchings: Internal Trade, Transportation, Supply and Communications . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 391-416 .
  12. ^ A b Hans-Ulrich Friedli: PTT tries to help . In: newsletter Albania . No. 3 , April 1994, ISSN  1424-5337 , pp. 8th ff .
  13. ↑ Kompania. In: ALBtelecom. Retrieved May 9, 2019 (Albanian).