Bhutan Postal Corporation
27°28′25.6″N 89°38′19.4″E / 27.473778°N 89.638722°E
Postal service | |
Founded | 1 October 1996 |
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Headquarters | Thimphu , Bhutan |
Website | bhutanpost |
Bhutan Postal Corporation Ltd., often shortened to simply Bhutan Post, is the company in
History
Until 1996 the post in Bhutan was run by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, part of the Ministry of Communications, but in line with the
Services
The first post office was opened in
The Bhutan Postal Corporation opened in November 2015 the Bhutan Postal Museum on the groundfloor of the general post office building in Thimphu.
Bhutan Post also operates a transport network within the country [6] and between the border town of Phuntsholing and Kolkata in India,[7] which carries mail and passenger traffic.
Special stamp issues
Bhutan Post had a contract with the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation from 1974 - 1992 to produce a number of special issues a year for sale in the international market for which they received a royalty of up to US$0.110 million annually.[8]
Postcodes
Bhutan Post introduced in 2010 the country's first postcode system set up with assistance of the
See also
References
- ^ "History of Postal Service in Bhutan". Bhutan Post. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
- ^ "Bhutan Postal Corporation Act 1999". Asian Legal Information Institute. 1999-07-26. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
- ^ G.N. Zahid Malik,'Report of the Bhutan Evaluation Mission 4–18 August 1988', UPU, International Bureau, Berne 1988
- ^ Bhutanese newspaper Kuensel 1 July 2006 'Rural postal services must be improved'
- ^ "Financial Services". Bhutan Post. Archived from the original on 3 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
- ^ e.g. bus service Thimphu - Phuntsholing https://www.bhutanpost.bt/thimphu-to-phuntsholing/
- ^ "Phuntsholing to Kolkata – Bhutan Post".
- ^ "Annual Audit Report 2004 Part I: Policy, Planning & Annual Audit Report Division" (PDF). 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
- ^ Yezer, Pema (2010-02-21). "New postcode and standard addressing System". Bhutan Times. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
- ^ "Postal codes". Bhutan Postal Corporation. 202. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.