Russian Post

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Russian Post (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿, Pochta Rossii), is the Unitary enterprise postal operator of Russia. The company is responsible for the delivery of mail in Russia, and the issuing of postage stamps. Russian Post employs about 390,000 people and has over 40,000 postal offices. Russian Post cooperates with Sviaz-Bank. Russian Post is a founding member of the Universal Postal Union created in 1874. In 1902 Chief Postal Service was made part of the Internal Affairs Ministry and in 1917 under the Provisional Government it became part of Ministry of Post and Telegraph. During the Second World War Soviet postal service part of People's Commissariat of communications was delivering up to 70 million parcels per month to the Soviet army front from the rear under extremely difficult and often very dangerous conditions.

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