Singapore Post
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Singapore Post Limited SGX: S08 (Chinese: 新加坡郵政有限公司; or SingPost, Chinese: 新加坡郵局) is Singapore's only postal company, providing local and international postal services. It currently manages over 60 post offices, about 200 Self-service Automated Machines (SAMs), over 800 postboxes, as well as extending its service via about 80 authorised postal agencies and over 660 stamp vendors in the country.
SingPost has three main operational divisions, namely the Mail Division, which handles the bulk of day-to-day mail delivery locally and those bound for international destinations. The Logistics Division handles door-to-door distribution services, the SpeedPost services, as well as other supporting services such as warehousing and storage of goods to be delivered. Finally, the Retail Division takes charge of front-line postal services through the various post offices as well as external vendors, plus managing the vPOST (virtual post) internet portal service.
[edit] History
SingPost traces its history to the founding of modern Singapore in 1819, when a single post office was established in the former Parliament House. The small amount of mail handled required just three persons to operate. Accelerating trade and development, however, led to the growth of the office into a separate department from the Marine Office in October 1858.
