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Posten (Sweden)
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Posten AB
is the name of the Swedish
postal service
. The word "posten" means "the post" or "the mail" in Swedish
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Posten was established in 1636 by Axel Oxenstierna
under the name Kungliga Postverket (Royal Postal Agency), although its origins can be traced further back, and it was operated as a government agency into the 1990s when it was transformed into a government-owned limited company. One of the most visible changes to the postal service was the decision in 2000 to abandon the service maintained at the public post offices in 2001.
The public today deals with its postal business at Postal Service Points, which are maintained in grocery shops and gas stations. Postal Service Centres are maintained for business clients and Svensk Kassaservice
, a chain which deals with simple financial transactions but offers no postal services.
In addition to regular mail, Posten is also the largest distributor of direct mail
(addressed and unadressed) in Sweden (annual report 2005, pg.18 http://hugin.info/134112/R/1053089/175010.pdf).
Mail and package delivery is seen as very reliable in Sweden, but it has undergone large scale organisational changes and rationalisation in the last decade. Nevertheless, it is under ever increasing competition from private companies on the Swedish deregulated postal market. Their main competitor is the formerly private company CityMail
, nationalised by Norway as of 2006. http://www.citymail.se/Pressinfo/Pressmeddelandearkiv/2005/Posten-Norge-AS-lagger-bud-pa-OptiMail-AB-/
24 June 2009, Posten AB merged with Post Danmark
to form the new holding company Posten Norden AB
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Aktiebolag
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is the name of the Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
postal service
Mail
Mail, or post, is a system for transporting letters and other tangible objects: written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.In principle, a postal service...
. The word "posten" means "the post" or "the mail" in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
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Posten was established in 1636 by Axel Oxenstierna
Axel Oxenstierna
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre , Count of Södermöre, was a Swedish statesman. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1612 until his death. He was a confidant of first Gustavus Adolphus and then Queen Christina.Oxenstierna...
under the name Kungliga Postverket (Royal Postal Agency), although its origins can be traced further back, and it was operated as a government agency into the 1990s when it was transformed into a government-owned limited company. One of the most visible changes to the postal service was the decision in 2000 to abandon the service maintained at the public post offices in 2001.
The public today deals with its postal business at Postal Service Points, which are maintained in grocery shops and gas stations. Postal Service Centres are maintained for business clients and Svensk Kassaservice
Svensk Kassaservice
Svensk Kassaservice is a former subsidiary of Posten AB - the Swedish postal service. Svensk Kassaservice provided a retail cashier service of processing simple transactions such as paying bills, withdrawing and depositing money from/to bank accounts of several Swedish banks...
, a chain which deals with simple financial transactions but offers no postal services.
In addition to regular mail, Posten is also the largest distributor of direct mail
Direct mail
Advertising mail, also known as direct mail, junk mail, or admail, is the delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail. The delivery of advertising mail forms a large and growing service for many postal services, and direct-mail marketing forms a significant portion of the direct...
(addressed and unadressed) in Sweden (annual report 2005, pg.18 http://hugin.info/134112/R/1053089/175010.pdf).
Mail and package delivery is seen as very reliable in Sweden, but it has undergone large scale organisational changes and rationalisation in the last decade. Nevertheless, it is under ever increasing competition from private companies on the Swedish deregulated postal market. Their main competitor is the formerly private company CityMail
CityMail
Bring Citymail AB is a private postal organisation owned by Posten Norge, operating in Sweden and Denmark , competing with the state-owned Posten Sverige and Post Danmark. Bring Citymail closed down distribution in Denmark at the end of 2009.They specialize in direct mail and...
, nationalised by Norway as of 2006. http://www.citymail.se/Pressinfo/Pressmeddelandearkiv/2005/Posten-Norge-AS-lagger-bud-pa-OptiMail-AB-/
24 June 2009, Posten AB merged with Post Danmark
Post Danmark
Post Danmark A/S is the company responsible for the Danish postal service. Established in 1995 following political liberalization efforts, it has taken over the mail delivery duties of the governmental department Postvæsenet ; it was turned into a public limited company in 2002...
to form the new holding company Posten Norden AB
Posten Norden AB
PostNord AB is the name of the holding company of the two merged postal companies Posten AB and Post Danmark, that were officially merged 24 June 2009. The name of the group was changed 17 May 2011 from Posten Norden to PostNord. President and CEO is Lars Idermark and chairman is Fritz H. Schur....
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Directors General of Postverket
- 1850-1867 Otto Wilhelm Staël von Holstein (1802-84)
- 1867-1889 Wilhelm Roos (1824-95)
- 1889-1907 Edvard von Krusenstjerna (1841-1907)
- 1896-1902 Frans Herman Schlytern (tf)
- 1907-1907 Richard Ossbahr (1853-1936)
- 1907-1925 Julius Juhlin (1861-1934)
- 1925-1947 Anders Örne (1881-1956)
- 1947-1965 Erik Swartling (1900-85)
- 1965-1973 Nils Hörjel (1917-2006)
- 1973-1982 Ove Rainer (1925-87)
- 1982-1988 Bertil Zachrisson (1926-)
- 1988-1994 Ulf Dahlsten (1946-)
Managing Directors of Posten AB
- 1994-1998 Ulf Dahlsten (1946-)
- 1999-2002 Lennart Grabe (1946-)
- 2002-2003 Börje Österholm (1942-)
- 2003-2008 Erik Olsson (1959-)
- 2008- Lars G. Nordström (1943-)
See also
- Postage stamps and postal history of SwedenPostage stamps and postal history of SwedenPosten, the Swedish mail service, was established in 1636 by Axel Oxenstierna, and by the 18th century it had been extended throughout the country. The same century also saw the introduction of a practice unique to Sweden, that of attaching a feather to the wax seal of a letter to indicate that it...
- Postcode areas in SwedenPostcode areas in SwedenFor the purposes of directing mail, Sweden is divided into a number of postcode areas. The Swedish postcode system is administered by the Swedish Mail Service on behalf of the Post and Telecom Agency .-History :...
- List of Swedish government enterprises
- Posten Norge, the NorwegianNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
postal service
External links
- Posten.se - Official Posten site