Correos de México is the national postal service of Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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Overview

On February 17, 1907 the president of Mexico Porfirio Diaz

Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori was a Mexican-American War volunteer and French intervention hero, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911, with the exception of a brief term in 1876 when he left Juan N...

 founded the "Palacio Postal" (postal palace) also known as the "Quinta Casa de Correos" (Fifth house of post).

But Mexico had had a postal service since 1580. The office's main job was to communicate the viceroyalty of New Spain with the metropoli Spain.

International Postal Union

In 1921 Sepomex, in need of an international regulatory and unified postal service, the Mexican government participated in the city of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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 in Argentina

Argentina

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 in the formation of the "Unión Panamericana de Correos" (Panamerican Postal Union.) In 1931, Spain joined the union, which changed the name to "Unión Postal de las Américas y España" (American and Spain Postal Union.) In 1990, Portugal was added to the union, which again changed the name to "Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal" (American, Spain and Portugal Postal Union).

Mail and Telegraph

In 1933, by presidential order, the Postal service took control of the telegraph service in Mexico, creating the office "Dirección General de Correos y Telegrafos."

In 1942, the president ordered the separation of the postal service and telegraph into two entities.

Autonomy

In 1986, the government gave autonomy to the Postal Service. This was in response to the need to improve the service, which was considered one of the worst in the world and was now facing competition from private companies.

In order to compete with the private postal services like DHL

DHL

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, UPS

United Parcel Service

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, FedEx

FedEx

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, Multipack, Estafeta and others the postal service created a new entity, "Mexpost," more expensive than normal postal service but also more efficient working as a private company but still being part of the Mexican Postal Service.

Sources and external links

• Official Site (in Spanish)
• mail: Mexico's postal service looks to monopoly as a solution to its financial woes. By Day, Paul Publication: Business Mexico

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2002

• Mexico may Bypass Mail for Overseas Vote Las Vegas Sun
• Going postal: little used and mistrusted, Mexico's state postal system works overtime to prove itself by Amy Guthrie. July, 2005