PTT, an abbreviation for (lit. Post and Telegraph Agency), is the national post and telegraph directorate of

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. Formerly, the organization was named . After the privatization of the telephone telecommunications service business, the directorate was renamed, keeping its acronym. It is headquartered in

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, and is known as Turkish Post internationally.

History

On 23 October 1840, during the reign of

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, the Ottoman Ministry of Posts was established. In 1855, the first

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service and in 1909 the first telephone service were put into use. In the same year the name of the ministry was changed to ''Posta Telgraf Telefon'' ("Posts, Telegraph and Telephone" or PTT for short) a name which was used for 86 years. After the

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replaced the Ottoman Empire in 1923, the ministry became a general directorate of the Republic. In 1995, the telephone and other telecommunication services were transferred to newly founded

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(which was soon privatized). Accordingly, the directorate was renamed as "Organization of Post and Telegraph" (), thus the former acronym PTT is kept.

Services

Alongside mailing services, the PTT also offers a variety of other services such as

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, hybrid mailing, HGS payments, insurance, PttAVM: an

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, and PttCell: a

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using

infrastructure, and much more.

Service figures

In 2020, the service figures of the PTT were as follows: *Accepted post items: 493 million *Total revenue: TL 2,917 billion

Service quality

The PTT runs for the ever-growing quality and efficiency with the fully modernized technology. It owns an ISO-9000 Quality Certificate. The international outbound mail leaves the country from the International Mail Processing Center () at the

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, the PTT's main hub. Most of the mail bags are transported by the state-owned

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. UPİM provides information about the sent items, including the carrier name, flight number, and mail bag number containing the item when detailed information is required domestically.

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is provided whenever available.

References

External links

Official website
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