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Hellenic Post was founded in 1828 along with the modern Greek state. Since 1996 it has been operating as a public limited company owned by the state. In 1834 an agreement with French banker Francois Feraldi ensured mail service to and from the Greek islands, and in 1836 placed the first wagons for transporting mail between Athens and Piraeus.
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]
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 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.
In major cities, the final two digits identify specific post offices. [ 1 ] Postal codes beginning with the digits between 100 and 180 are used for the city of Athens ; the beginning sequences 180 to 199 are used for other parts of the prefecture of Attica , with the exception of Corfu and Rhodes .
The Authority is renamed to Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT). 2000 Law 2867/2000 strengthens the regulatory, supervisory and monitoring role of EETT in the electronic communications market, now fully liberalized after the abolition of OTE ’s exclusive rights and legal monopoly on the fixed (voice) telephony and fixed ...
Falklands Post Service Limited [22] [23] Guernsey Post; Isle of Man Post Office; Jersey Post; Montserrat General Post Office [24] Pitcairn Post Office [25] [26] Royal Gibraltar Post Office; Turks and Caicos Post Office [27] Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: Ascension Post Office [28] [14] Saint Helena Post Office [29] Tristan da ...
These stamps were sold at the post offices at a price higher than the face value, due to the depreciation of the drachma. The "A M" stamps were mainly used for international parcel post and postal money orders, although they are sometimes found on normal letter covers. In 1902 these stamps were withdrawn and replaced with the "A M" series.