Georgian Post

Georgian Post

Type	Ltd
Headquarters	Station Square 2, 0100 Tbilisi, Georgia
Number of employees	2700[1]
Website	www.gpost.ge

Georgian Post (Georgian: საქართველოს ფოსტა, sakartvelos post'a) is a Georgian courier delivery services company. The Georgian Post represents a leading national postal operator that is mainly involved in providing the consumers with the universal postal services.^[2]

History[]

The postal service in Georgia has a long history. Since the ancient times the news were transferred rapidly across the country through couriers and messengers mentioned in Kartlis Tskhovreba (literally - Life of Kartli). By the end of the 19th century, an important representative of the Georgian economical thought, Ioane Batonishvili, who created the bill of State’s order reform, thought that arranging postal stations would be rather beneficial for the people and provide income for the Treasury. Trade could not have been expanded without postal services, so he demanded that post was established and postal institutions were created. He wrote: “Posts are to be located in three regions: Kartli, Kakheti and among Tatars”…

The Georgian bullock carts are closely linked to the first postal transfers in Georgia. Georgian carts are exhibited at the Popov Central Museum of Communications (in Saint-Petersburg) among the oldest means of postal transportation. Bulls locked in the cart are carrying the heavy mailbox. There are two Georgians ahead of the cart. Postal transfers using the Georgian bullock cart have brought attention from many countries. The book called “Technology and Industry” (volume ten) translated from German to Russian in 1900 describing several unique exhibits of the Berlin Postal Museum reads: among the Russian exhibits in the museum “the pictures of postal transfers using the two-wheel Georgian carts” are particularly interesting. This makes it clear that the Georgian cart has gained its place among the first means of postal transportation in the world. One of the catalogues at the Popov Museum states that there were a model of a Georgian bullock cart and a painting describing the transportation of the post over the Caucasus presented at the Postal Exhibition arranged in 1893 in Chicago. The improvement of the circulation of mail from Georgia to Russia through the Caucasus was directly linked to the development of postal networks in Georgia.

From 1993 Georgia is a member of the Universal Postal Union.

In 1901 post offices are opened in Akhmeta and Ikalto.

In 1886 the postal road towards Racha-Lechkhumi was opened.

In 1840 the twelfth Postal District was created covering the “Kartli-Imereti” and the Kaspi regions. In 1857 the District Governor (N. Kakhanov) requested that there was a postal department opened by the postal bureau in Tbilisi. Kakhanov carried out different reforms in the postal business. The interesting fact is that he is the one associated with the production of the “Tbilisi stamp”.

From 1832 some of the postal offices on the postal path belonged to individuals while later, from 1836 the offices were given under the ownership of State postal departments.

In 1805 The first postal office was opened in Tbilisi.^[3]

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