CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.
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| Sociedade Anónima | |
| Traded as | Euronext: CTT |
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| Founded | 1520 as Correio Público (Public Post) |
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Portugal |
Key people | Francisco de Lacerda, Chairman & CEO |
| Website | www.ctt.pt |
Postal Services of Portugal, plc (Portuguese: CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.) is the national postal service of Portugal.
The acronym CTT comes from the former name of this department (Portuguese: Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones, meaning "Post, Telegraph and Telephone"), which was also the designation of postal services for the former Portuguese Colonies and still for the Macau Postal Service nowadays.
CTT has become a public limited company in 1991, and in December 2013 the shares were listed on Euronext Lisbon.[1]
In 2007, CTT started to offer a mobile phone service in Portugal, under the brand name Phone-ix.
History
- 1520: King Manuel I creates the public mail service of Portugal, the Correio Público—Public Post Office.
- 1533: the first postal service regulation in Portugal.
- 1753: the first financial mails regulations in Portugal.
- 1821: the beginning of house-to-house mail delivering in Portugal.
- 1880: the fusion of the Post Office and the Telegraphs Department in one single service, the Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Lighthouses—Direcção-Geral de Correios, Telégraphos e Faróis.
- 1911: the department received administrative and financial autonomy from the Portuguese State and become the General Administration of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones—Administração-Geral dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones—adopting the CTT acronym which was kept until today, even after the several changes of official name.
- 1953: CTT adopts the horse rider logo. The logo represents an ancient postman rider of the CTT, announcing his arrival with a bugle. The logo was reformed three times, the last one in 2004.
- 1969: CTT becomes a State Company, adopting the name CTT Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal—CTT Posts and Telecommunications of Portugal.
- 1992: the telecommunications service is separated from the CTT, becoming an autonomous company. At the same time, CTT become a public limited company (with all shares owned by the Portuguese government), adopting the name CTT Correios de Portugal—CTT Posts of Portugal.
Logos
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CTT Expresso
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PayShop
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Phone-ix
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Tourline Express
The CTT group
The CTT group includes the following subsidiaries:
- CTT Correios: national and international regular mail delivering company;
- CTT Expresso: national and international express mail service;
- Mailtec: management and information systems research & development company;
- PostContacto: non addressed mail delivering company;
- Campos Envelopagem: direct marketing and editorial mail company;
- PayShop: utility services pay net service;
- Phone-ix: mobile communications operator;
- Tourline Express: express mail service (Spain).
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A CTT mail delivery vehicle
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CTT traditional mail boxes
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A CTT local post office
External links
- CTT official website
