| Philippine Postal Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Korporasyong Koreo ng Pilipinas | |
| Postal Service overview | |
| Formed | April 2, 1992 |
| Preceding Postal Service | Postal Service Office |
| Jurisdiction | Philippines |
| Headquarters | Manila, Philippines |
| Employees | 13,800 |
| Postal Service executives | Ma. Josefina Dela Cruz, Postmaster General Alfred Gabot, Chairman of the Board of Directors |
| Parent department | Commission on Information and Communications Technology |
| Website | |
| www.philpost.gov.ph | |
The Philippine Postal Corporation, (Filipino: Korporasyong Koreo ng Pilipinas), abbreviated as PhilPost, is a government-owned and -controlled corporation responsible for providing postal services in the Philippines. The Philippine Postal Corporation has an estimated 13,800 employees and runs more than 2,000 post offices nationwide. PhilPost is based in the Philippines's primary post office, the Manila Central Post Office, which overlooks the Pasig River. Philippine Postal Corporation is presently under the authority of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) as an attached agency. Its policy-making body is the Board of Directors, composed of seven members including the Postmaster General who serves simultaneously as the Chief Executive Officer of the corporation.
The Philippine Postal Savings Bank, one of three government-owned banks in the Philippines, was organized under Philpost. However, it is a separate company today.
The Philippine postal system has a history spanning over 250 years. In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago. The postal district was reestablished on December 5, 1837. A year later, Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875, which was announced in the Philippines two years later.
During the Philippine Revolution, President Emilio Aguinaldo ordered the establishment of a postal service to provide postal services to Filipinos. It was later organized as a bureau under the Department of Trade on September 5, 1902, by virtue of Act No. 426, which was passed by the Philippine Commission. The Philippines eventually joined the Universal Postal Union, this time as a sovereign entity, on January 1, 1922.
While the Manila Central Post Office building, the center of Philippine postal services and the headquarters of the then-Bureau of Posts, was completed in its present-day Neo-Classical style in 1926, it was destroyed during World War II. After the war, the Central Post Office was rebuilt in 1946.
With the overhaul of the Philippine bureaucracy in 1987, the Bureau of Posts was renamed the Postal Service Office (PSO) by Executive Order No. 125, issued by President Corazon Aquino on April 13, 1987. It was also that order that placed the PSO under the DOTC. On April 2, 1992, by Republic Act No. 7354 the Postal Service Office became the present-day PhilPost. The law also granted the Philippines Postal Corporation, the authority to reopen the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, which occurred on July 21, 1994 by President Fidel V. Ramos.
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