CTT

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CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A.

Type	Government Enterprise
Founded	1520 as Correio Público (Public Post Office)
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Key people	Luís Nazaré, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Mail
Website	www.ctt.pt

A CTT mail delivery vehicle

A CTT traditional mail box

A CTT local post office

CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A. (meaning Postal Services of Portugal, plc) is the national postal service of Portugal. The acronym CTT comes from Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones (Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones), the former name of the postal administration. CTT has become a public limited company in 1991, but all the capital is still controlled by the Portuguese Government. In 2007, CTT started to offer a mobile phone service in Portugal, under the brand name Phone-ix.

CTT was also the designation of the postal services of the former Portuguese Colonies. It is still the designation of the Macau Postal Service.

[edit] The CTT group

The CTT group includes the following subsidiaries:

CTT Correios - national and international regular mail delivering company;

CTT Expresso - national and international express mail service;

Mailtec - management and information systems research & development company;

PostContacto - non addressed mail delivering company;

Campos Envelopagem - direct marketing and editorial mail company;

PayShop - utility services pay net service;

Phone-ix - mobile communications operator;

Tourline Express - express mail service (Spain).

[edit] History

1520 - King Manuel I creates the public mail service of Portugal, the Correio Público (Public Post Office).

1533 - the first postal service regulation in Portugal.

1753 - the first financial mails regulations in Portugal.

1821 - the beginning of house-to-house mail delivering in Portugal.

1880 - the fusion of the Post Office and Telegraphs Department in one single service, the Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Lighthouses (Direcção-Geral de Correios, Telégraphos e Faróis).

1911 - the department received administrative and financial autonomy from the Portuguese State and become the General Administration of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones (Administração-Geral dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones) adopting the CTT acronym which was kept until today, even after the several changes of official name.

1953 - CTT adopts the horse rider logo. The logo represents an ancient typical rural postman rider of the CTT, announcing his arrival with a bugle. The logo was reformed three times, the last one in 2004.

1969 - CTT becomes a State Company, adopting the name CTT Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal (CTT Posts and Telecommunications of Portugal).

1992 - the telecommunications service is separated from the CTT, becoming an autonomous company. At the same time, CTT become a public limited company (with all shares owned by the Portuguese government), adopting the name CTT Correios de Portugal (CTT Posts of Portugal).