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Express Mail Service (EMS) is an international express postal service offered by postal-administration members of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). These administrators created the EMS Cooperative in 1998, within the framework of the UPU, to promote the harmonization and development of postal services worldwide. [ 2 ]
The UPU S10 standard defines a system for assigning 13-character identifiers to international postal items for the purpose of tracking and tracing them during shipping. The standard was introduced on 18 April 1996, [ 1 ] : 4 and is currently in its 12th version.
Posta Uganda can grant licenses for franking machines. [1] Posta Uganda has a monopoly of all international and domestic mail in Uganda, although letters may be exempted. [1] Posta Uganda also sets the price for stamps and mail services, although it is limited in this respect by the Communications Act and by the Uganda Communications Commission ...
Afghan Shaheen Post (EMS) Albania: Posta shqipatre - EMS Service Algeria: Algerie Post - E.M.S Service champion-poste Angola: Correios de Angola - EMS Anguilla: Anguilla Postal Service - EMS Argentina: Correo Argentino - EMS Armenia: Haypost - EMS Armenia Aruba: Post Aruba - EMS Australia: Australia Post – Express Courier International Austria
The British consolidated all the postal and communication entities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika (KUT) under the umbrella of the East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. [4] Even post-independence in the early 1960s the postal and communications services were managed under the newly formed East African Community. [5]
It is a unique ID number or code assigned to a package or parcel. The tracking number is typically printed on the shipping label as a bar code that can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader or smartphone. In the United States, some of the carriers using tracking numbers include UPS, [1] FedEx, [2] and the United States Postal Service. [3]
The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
The postal service of for the protectorates of British East Africa and Uganda was called East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, and operated from 1 April 1903, to 22 July 1920. From 1948 to 1977, postal service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda was provided by the East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.