Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal
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Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal União Postal das Américas, Espanha e Portugal | |
Abbreviation | UPAEP |
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Formation | 1911 |
Founded at | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Type | Regional organization |
Headquarters | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Fields | Postal, mail |
Official language | Spanish and Portuguese (official languages) |
Secretary General | Roberto Cavanna |
Website | www |
The Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (Spanish: Unión Postal de las Américas, España y Portugal; Portuguese: União Postal das Américas, Espanha e Portugal; UPAEP) is a regional association of the postal authorities in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada, Spain, and Portugal, headquartered in Montevideo. It was founded in 1911 as a restricted union of the Universal Postal Union.[1]
History
[edit]The UPAEP's predecessors include:
- Unión Gran Colombiana (1838): Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia.
- Lima Convention (1848): Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru
- Lima Convention (1864): Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, and Venezuela
- Bolivarian Postal Agreement (1911): Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
The South American Postal Congress (Spanish: Congreso Postal Sudamericano) was held on 8 January 1911 with delegates from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The union was later renamed the Panamerican Postal Congress (Spanish: Congreso Postal Panamericano) in 1926, the American-Spanish Postal Congress (Spanish: Congreso Postal Americoespañol) in 1936, the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (Spanish: Unión Postal de las Américas y España) in 1966, and the Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal in 1990.
Member countries
[edit]The Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal consists of the following member postal administrations:
- Argentina (Correo Argentino) (1911)
- Aruba (Post Aruba) (1993)
- Bolivia (Empresa de Correos de Bolivia) (1911)
- Brazil (Correios) (1911)
- Canada (Canada Post) (1931)
- Chile (Correos de Chile) (1911)
- Colombia (Servicios Postales Nacionales) (1911)
- Costa Rica (Correos de Costa Rica) (1921)
- Cuba (Empresa de Correos de Cuba) (1921)
- Curaçao (CPost International) (1993)
- Dominican Republic (Instituto Postal Dominicano) (1921)
- Ecuador (Correos del Ecuador) (1911)
- El Salvador (General Postal Directorate) (1921)
- Guatemala (Correo de Guatemala) (1921)
- Haiti (Post of Haiti) (1931)
- Honduras (Honducor) (1926)
- Mexico (Correos de México) (1921)
- Nicaragua (Nicaraguan Postal Service) (1921)
- Panama (Correos y Telégrafos Nacionales de Panamá) (1921)
- Paraguay (Correo Nacional Paraguayo) (1911)
- Peru (Serpost) (1911)
- Portugal (Correios de Portugal) (1990)
- Sint Maarten (Postal Services Sint Maarten) (2014)
- Spain (Correos) (1926)
- Suriname (Surinaams Postbedrijf) (1978)
- United States (United States Postal Service) (1921)
- Uruguay (Correo Uruguayo) (1911)
- Venezuela (IPOSTEL) (1911)
See also
[edit]- Ibero-America
- Caribbean Postal Union
- European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT)
- Universal Postal Union
- List of telecommunications regulatory bodies