Russian Post (Russian: Почта России, Pochta Rossii), is a unitary enterprise which is a national 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 has partnered with Sviaz-Bank in offering banking services at post offices across Russia.[1]
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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.
In 1993 Russian Post became a part of Ministry of Communications and in 2002, its status changed from a government ministry to a Unitary enterprise in the framework of the restructuring the federal postal communication agencies. The company's headquarters are located in Moscow.
In 2008, Andrey Kazmin, former CEO of Sberbank was appointed to the CEO of the company.[2]
Although in January 2009 it was announced that Kazmin had to leave his post as CEO of the Russian Post.[3] Current General Director is Aleksandr Kiselyov.
In 2006, Lonely Planet suggested that, while the domestic post is reasonably reliable, delivery of mail sent from abroad to Russia is highly unreliable, and that alternatives, such as poste restante are non-existent.[4]
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