Russian Postal Service
Russia in the past. News exchange dates from the Stone Age. At that time people conveyed information by means of fire fogs, beating signal drums, horn sounds. Records mention a system of messengers in the 10th century. Early letters were carried in the form of a roll, with a wax or lead seal. But it became a thing of the past.
Nowadays the Unitary enterprise postal service of Russia is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia and the issuing of stamps. Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union. The Day of Russian Post is celebrated each second Sunday of July. In 1996 Ministry of Communications of the RF for the first time ever broke state postal monopoly on special postal services. As a result of the policy a lot of commercial postal enterprises appeared in Russia. Courier delivery of postal items, pension and allowances, parcel forwarding, distribution of periodicals were among new services.
According to Russian Post Press Center, Russian national postal operator FSUE Russian Post and one of the largest universal postal operator company TNT N. V. set the basis of cooperation. The Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Acting Director General of FSUE Russian Post Andrey Konoval and General Director of TNT N. V. Peter Bakker on 6th November 2007 shows main trends and order of companies’ interaction.
The cooperation implies application of logistics system of Russian Post for delivery of TNT mails within the territory of the Russian Federation and application of TNT company means concerning EMS mails delivered from Russia in Europe.
And we can’t but mention one more news regarding not only Russian postal service, but Ukrainian and Belorussian ones. This month national postal operators of Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia signed the agreement on international registered postal items exchange by means of FSUE Russian Post’s server at 38th session of Council of Communications Heads of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications (RCC) held on 13th November in Astana. Now customers can trace international registered postal items on-line. This allows improving service quality and reducing loss of items at the minimal level.
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