LibanPost is the national
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
of
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
, established in 1998. It is privately owned, in charge of operating the postal sector. Since its inception, LibanPost embarked on a program of rebuilding infrastructure, diversification and branding.
Services
The company offers more than 1000 services, covering mail and express,
financial services
Financial services are service (economics), economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions. Financial services encompass a broad range of tertiary sector of the economy, service sector activities, especially as concerns finan ...
, retail and merchandising activities, business,
e-commerce
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and governmental services. LibanPost provides governmental services portfolio across 15 public institutions, positioning itself as a formal intermediary between citizens and governmental institutions.
LibanPost is a member of the
Express Mail Service.
Worldwide EMS Operators.
Express Mail Service Cooperative, 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
Size of operations
The company handles an average of 20 million shipments yearly. Up to the year 2011, LibanPost had executed 8 million governmental formalities. LibanPost operates today a network of 74 post offices.
Automation
LibanPost has developed applications for 150 services and 350 sub-services, including a governmental services platform. LibanPost developed services such as the Home Service facility, providing post office services at the customer's premises, and address coding using GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...
technology.
See also
*Postage stamps and postal history of Lebanon Postage may refer to:
*Mail, or post, a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels
*Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to ...
References
Communications in Lebanon
Philately of Lebanon
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