Afghan Post is the national
postal organization of
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...
.
It has offices in all 34
provinces of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (, '' wilåyat''). The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages.
Provincial governors played a cr ...
, and is getting close to having offices in all 364
districts. Afghan Post is responsible for providing
courier
A courier is a person or organisation that delivers a message, package or letter from one place or person to another place or person. Typically, a courier provides their courier service on a commercial contract basis; however, some couriers are ...
services in Afghanistan. Most homes in Afghanistan, particularly in older neighborhoods and in the rural areas, still do not have street addresses. Names and other descriptions may be used in place of street addresses.
Afghanistan first established
mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...
service in 1870, where it received international recognition. In late 1970s, it had grown into one of the stronger regional postal services, able to send and receive letters from anywhere in the world. During the 1990s, the Afghan postal service was suspended due to a civil war in the country. Sending a letter usually meant having to find someone traveling in the direction of the recipient willing to carry a note and hoping for the best. It gradually began to develop in the mid 2000s during the
Karzai administration.
History
The first postal arrangements in Afghanistan are credited to
Sher Ali Khan, who established a
postal service in the 1860s as part of a program to modernize the country.
Timeline
*1870: Establishment of Balahisar Post office in Kabul and a post office in the center of each province of the country serving Primary Postal Services Affairs and Postal Stamps.
*1892: A Post Office near the presidential Compound was Established.
*1908: Postal Network developed more.
*1918: General Directorship of post and Telegraph & Telephone was included in the Organization of the Interior Ministry.
*1918: A Post office was established in each of the big cities.
*1925: International post services between Afghanistan and British India Government of Via
Torkham Border.
*1928: General Directorship of Post and Telegraph & Telephone becomes and Independent Administration.
*1928: Afghanistan became of a member of the World Postal Union.
*1928: After having joined the world Postal Union and some other individual Company agreement were signed.
*1929: Post is conveyed towards Torkham and Kundahar by vehicles.
*1929: Various type of deliveries such as Latter, Postcards, Newspapers, Magazine and other printed matters as well as parcels are made inside and outside of the Country.
*1934: Title of the Post Administration from General Directorship of Telephone and Telegraph was changed into The Department of Telephone, Telegraph and later on it was elevated to the Ministry of Communication.
*1973: Law of Postal Services was amended.
*2019: A terrorist attack on Afghan Post headquarters on April 13 caused international mail to be suspended.
International service disruptions / Afghanistan
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See also
*Postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Afghanistan.
First stamps
The first stamps appeared in 1871. They were round in shape, imperforate, and printed in black, with a crude lion's head, surrounded by Arabic script specifyin ...
* Communications in Afghanistan
Reference
External links
Official websiteAfghanistan's Post Office Begins Online Services
{{Postal administrations of Asia
Communications in Afghanistan
Philately of Afghanistan
Postal organizations
Postal systems by country