European Postal Operators

European Postal Operators:

(This list was current on April 8th 2008)

Royal Mail (Main UK postal operator)

Fedex (World's largest express transportation company)

DHL (UK)

TNT (UK)

La Poste (France)

PTT (Turkey)

Hellenic (Greece)

Hellenic (Denmark)

Correos (Spain) - In operation for 300 years. Moved from public to private sector in 1992.

Estonia Post - The public postal service in Estonia has its origin in the public postal system of Sweden, which was established in 1636.

Posten Norge (Norway) - State-owned company. 23,000 employees.

Ukrainian Post - Government-run postal service network. 100,000 employees, 16,000 post offices. Over 5,000 vehicles.

Bulgaria - 3,008 post offices and a total of 80,060 km of postal routes. Founded after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.

An Post - employing over 9,500 people in Ireland through its national network of retail, processing and delivery points.

Latvia - Latvian Postal service works closely with Estonia within the Baltic Postal Union and the Nordic Postal Union

Czech Republic - Employs 37,200, 3,387 post offices