Ministry of Post
The state authority that is responsible for the overview of the postal traffic , today mostly also of the telecommunications system, is referred to as the post office .
Germany
In Germany, after the establishment of the Reich in 1871, this department was initially assigned to a department of the Reich Chancellery, and from 1880 to the Reich Post Office. With the establishment of the Weimar Republic it was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Post ; As Reich Minister , its head also belonged to the Reich Government.
After the division of Germany, a ministry was created in both German states for the area of responsibility, in the GDR the ministry for post and telecommunications , in the FRG the federal ministry for telecommunications, which from 1989 onwards was called the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and in 1998 in the course of the extensive privatization of its tasks was dissolved.
United States
In the USA, the United States Post Office Department was responsible for regulating postal traffic from 1792 . Its head, the United States Postmaster General , had ministerial rank until the agency was dissolved in 1971. In 1971 the ministry was dissolved and the American Federal Post Office became an independent agency .
