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Although most of the Western European countries had fully privatised their postal service companies, public opinion in France was largely against such a move. A majority of French citizens feared that if La Poste becomes a private company, many post offices would close, rural areas would be neglected and stamps would be more expensive.
The French post offices abroad were a global network of post offices in foreign countries established by France to provide mail service where the local services were deemed unsafe or unreliable. They were generally set up in cities with some sort of French commercial interest.
Country Company Website Status Afghanistan: Afghan Post: afghanpost.gov.af: Azerbaijan: Azərpoçt: azerpost.az: Bahrain: Bahrain Post: customs.gov.bh: Bangladesh
Zanzibar (French Post Office) 1889–1904 Ottoman Empire (French Post Offices) 1885–1923 Beirut (French Post Office) 1905 only Dedeagatz (French Post Office) 1893–1914 Kavalla (French Post Office) 1893–1914 Port Lagos (French Post Office) 1893–1898 Vathy (French Post Offices) 1893–1914 Palestine (French Post Offices) 1854–1914
Two-digit postcode areas of metropolitan France (defined through the first two postcode digits) The postal code (French: code postal) consists of five digits. In metropolitan France the first two digits are the number of the département where the post office in charge of delivery to a town is located. There are some places where this is ...
1821 - Carlo Meratti, an Italian, living in Alexandria, establishes a post office to send and receive mail to and from foreign countries. [13] 1825 - The US establishes a dead letter office. [14] 1828 - Hellenic postal service established.
La Poste Monaco (French pronunciation: [la pɔst mɔnako]) is the company responsible for postal service in microstate of the principality of Monaco.Despite Monaco being an independent nation, under an agreement with France, the company is a subsidiary of the French post office, Groupe La Poste.
' 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. [2] [3]