Correos de Chile, also known as CorreosChile (ChilePost —not to be confused with the private mail and courier company ChilePost), is a Chilean state-owned and autonomous enterprise dedicated to the mailing, money transfers, and national/international courier services, and fulfilling the functions of Universal Postal Service.
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 Correo Central (National Main Post Office), Santiago | |
| Company type | State-owned enterprise |
|---|---|
| Industry | Postal services, courier |
| Predecessor | |
| Founded | December 24, 1981 |
| Website | www |
It can trace its history back to the establishment of the first postal service in 1747, in the Captaincy General of Chile.[1] The current state-owned enterprise was created by the DFL N° 10, December 24 of 1981, dissolving the previous SOE Servicio de Correos y Telégrafos (lit. 'Post and Telegraph Service'), separating mailing and Telex services, founding Telex-Chile (that was extinguished as a service following the rise of the internet, but still exists legally as enterprise, providing other telecommunications services). It is administratively under the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.
Notes
edit- ^ 260 años del correo en Chile Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, by Alfonso Calderón, Correos de Chile, October 2007, access date February 15th, 2010
External links
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- Sitio oficial de Correos de Chile (in Spanish)
- Sociedad Filatélica de Chile - Philately Society of Chile (in Spanish)
- ChileCollector (in Spanish)
- FilateliaChile Philately Chile (in Spanish)
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