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La Poste (French pronunciation: [la pɔst]) is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France, the five French overseas departments and regions and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
' The Postal Bank ') is a French postal bank, created on 1 January 2006 as a subsidiary of La Poste, the national postal service. It has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank .
Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting.They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972. France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located.
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It was later extended to also regulate postal services on 21 May 2005 when it was renamed the "Electronic Communications and Postal Services Authority" (officially in French: Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques et des Postes or ARCEP). The French authority was modelled for national authorities regulating these sectors in ...
The Royal French minister of finance cardinal de Fleury estimates that the postal wealth should belong to the Kings of France and nationalizes the privately run postal enterprise. [9] The postal service also leaves the historic Pajot & Rouille buildings (formerly Hôtel de Villeroy) located on rue des Dechargeurs / rue des Bourdonnais.
The uniform of an 18th-century French postman Exhibition of French post boxes. The Musée de La Poste (French pronunciation: [myze də la pɔst], La Poste's Museum) is the museum of the French postal operator La Poste. It specialises in the postal history and philately of France. Opened in 1946, the museum has been located on two sites in Paris.
The French postal administration originally tried to deliver the letters to the ship, sending them around to multiple ports before learning the ship had been captured and sold.