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{{Infobox company
|logo          = Bgposts-logo.png
|logo_size     = 200px
|image         = Studentski grad Sofia 20090406 011.JPG
|type          = [[Joint stock company]]<br />(state-owned)
|industry      = [[Mail|Postal services]]
|foundation    = {{start date and age|1879}}
|location      = [[Sofia]], Bulgaria
|num_employees = around 13,000 (2016) 
|website       = [https://www.bgpost.bg/ bgpost.bg]
}}
[[Image:Academia-2.jpg|right|thumb|The post office at [[Camp Academia]], [[Livingston Island]], [[Antarctica]] is the southernmost Bulgarian Posts office in the world]]

The '''Bulgarian Posts''' ({{langx|bg|Български пощи|lit=|translit=Balgarski poshti}}) are the national [[postal service]] of [[Bulgaria]].<ref name="Otsetova2018">{{cite journal |last1=Otsetova |first1=Anna |last2=Nedelchev |first2=Lian |year=2018 |title=Universal Postal Service Market in Bulgaria: State and Challenges |url=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol25/ijita25-02-p05.pdf |access-date=20 March 2021 |journal=Information Theories and Applications |publisher=Institute of Information Theories and Applications |publication-place=Sofia |volume=25 |issue=2 |page=61 |issn=1313-0463 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801072330/http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol25/ijita25-02-p05.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> The company was established in 1992. Although it was transformed into a [[joint-stock company]] in 1997, it is fully [[State ownership|owned by the state]].<ref name="Otsetova2018" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mtitc.government.bg/en/category/15 |title=Companies and state enterprises |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |publisher=Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications |location=Sofia |access-date=21 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204011108/https://www.mtitc.government.bg/en/category/15 |archive-date=4 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="bgpost.bg">{{cite web |url=https://www.bgpost.bg/en/181 |title=History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |publisher=Bulgarian Posts |access-date=20 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202224305/https://www.bgpost.bg/en/181 |archive-date=2 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=27 June 2001 |title=Performance Audit Report on Bulgaria |url=http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/781681511185861665/text/multi0page.txt |publisher=[[The World Bank]] |format=TXT |location=Washington, D.C. |section=Background |at=1.1 |access-date=20 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320222937/http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/781681511185861665/text/multi0page.txt |archive-date=20 March 2021}}</ref>

==History==
It traces its origin to the Bulgarian Posts and Telecommunications company, was founded as the Bulgarian Posts and Telegraphs after the [[Liberation of Bulgaria]] from [[Ottoman Bulgaria|Ottoman rule]], as the provisional [[Russian Empire|Russian]] administration handed over all [[post office|post]] and [[telegraph office]]s to the newly restored Bulgarian state in 1879. It joined the [[General Postal Union]] in the same year.<ref name="bgpost.bg" /><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Not stated--> |year=1907 |chapter=Roads and Means of Communication |title=Bulgaria of To-Day |location=London |publisher=Bulgarian Ministry Of Commerce and Agriculture |pages=219–226 |oclc=1151723802 |ol=13802098W |url=https://archive.org/details/bulgariatoday00bulggoog }}</ref> 

Following the end of World War II and the establishment of the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] the {{ill|Ministry of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs of Bulgaria|bg|Министерство на железниците, пощите и телеграфите на България}} was dissolved and divided into two organizations: [[Ministry of Transport and Communications (Bulgaria)|Ministry of Railways, Roads and Water Communications]] and Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones which operated the postal system. From 1957 the Ministry of Post was merged back into the [[Ministry of Transport and Communications (Bulgaria)|Ministry of Transport and Communications]] and the post was under its jurisdiction. In 1981 the postal department and telecommunications department were united to form a state-owned company, the Bulgarian Post and Telecommunications ({{langx|bg|Български пощи и далекосъобщения}}).<ref name=Stan>''Станчев Д.'' [http://www.vestnik-sviazy.ru/post/z/images/102008/PS_10_4_5.pdf Почтовые услуги в Болгарии]{{dead link|bot=InternetArchiveBot |date=June 2025}} // Почтовая связь. Техника и технологии. — 2008. — № 10. — С. 4—5.{{v|3|4|2011}} {{dead|accessdate=2018-07|bot=InternetArchiveBot|date=June 2025}}</ref> In 1992 following the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria#End of the People's Republic|demise of the communist regime]] and the establishment of modern Bulgaria, the regulatory part was given to the newly created {{ill|lt=Committee for Post and Telecommunications|Committee for Communications Regulation|bg|Комисия за регулиране на съобщенията}}, and the company itself split into two separate entities: the [[Bulgarian Posts]] took over postal activities while the telecommunication section was incorporated as a [[Vivacom|separate company]].

On March 31, 1997, "Bulgarian Posts" EOOD was transformed into a joint-stock company.

In 2005, the company operated with 3,008 post offices and a total length of 80,060 km with the postal route. The company was a monopoly in the country in providing universal postal service until 2006.

{{As of|2016}}, Bulgarian Posts reported operating 2,981 post offices<ref name="bgpost.bg" /> and 4,814 [[Letter box|mailboxes]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pencheva |first1=Velizara |last2=Asenov |first2=Asen |last3=Topchu |first3=Dzhema |last4=Beloev |first4=Ivan |last5=Evstatiev |first5=Boris |display-authors=1 |year=2017 |title=Organisation of the Work on Collecting Routes in Postal Activity Through an Automated System for Collection of Information |url=http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2017/zeszyt3/2017t12z3_14.pdf |access-date=20 March 2021 |journal=Transport Problems |publisher=[[Silesian University of Technology]] |publication-place=Katowice |volume=12 |issue=3 |page=147 |doi=10.20858/tp.2017.12.3.14 |issn=2300-861X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202073605/http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2017/zeszyt3/2017t12z3_14.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Postage stamps and postal history of Bulgaria]]
* [[Bulgarian Postbank]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.bgpost.bg/ Official website]

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