Kassandra U
2011-10-09 23:14:37 UTC
The origin of this office, which is essential for a society that evolves through member networking, dating back to the Romans, who called cursus publicus makers to explore the geography of Spain carrying messages for the army or the administrators.
That reality is very different from today, in which Post is developing "new applications" to transmit all kinds of electronic documents in certificated form. Because of its history, needs and progress, this profession is worthy of a World Day which is held every October 9 since 1969, when it was declared by the Congress of the Universal Postal Union held in Tokyo.
Addresses and digital mailboxes
Post now offers the ability to manage shipments without leaving home, from the computer, a service that decades ago would have been unthinkable.
The most innovative feature is the electronic post office box, which "has taken the concept of physical address to the digital world," the company said. Includes one hand, an e-mail address (CES) "free, identified, safe and free of spam", and secondly an Electronic Notification Service (ENS) to receive notices electronically government.
It has taken the concept of physical address to the digital world
Besides the possibility offers send a telegram via the Internet without the document loses its legal value and other characteristics of a traditional cable. The same goes for faxes and burofax, which "sends an urgent basis from home with delivery and signature upon as evidence against third parties", says Post.
The railway, a key
After the Romans, history was conceived Post with 'medieval messengers', ranging from one court to another with the orders of their kings. Also, traders and religious institutions and universities had their own messengers at this time.
In the eighteenth century built a House Post Office in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and was named the first carriers in Spain, but it was not until the nineteenth century when the evolution of the postal world was revolutionized by the arrival of the railroad, which improved and shortened delivery times. It was also the emergence of critical seals, which lowered the service and the introduction of electric telegraph network, which triggered the world's press, business and the state itself.
The century of 1900 continued the same trend of modernization with the arrival of the airplane, the automobile, the telegraph, the mechanization of postal processes, streamlined architectural corporate buildings ...
Post has continued to evolve to adapt to technological developments. Your virtual post office, where in addition to traditional postal services can gesionar the specifically created for the electronic environment, is one example.
Currently, the parcel delivery time has been reduced to just a few hours, the seals can be customized and some post offices offer the ability to recharge the mobile balance, pay bills, telephone booths and even shopping for new technologies.
Post in figures
Postal workers in almost 62,000 people, 53% men and 47% women, dedicated to distributing more than 4,400 million of shipments that the company manages to year, reaching 19 million households and two million companies.
We circle the world 20 times a day
It has more than 14,000 transport vehicles with different load capacities from 24 tons to trucks to motorcycles, carrying 8,000 tons and travel 800,000 kilometers daily. That is, "we turn the world 20 times every day," company sources say.
2360 offers multiservice offices, attended by more than 250,000 daily users and customers, and Internet office has an average of 3.2 million visitors monthly.
Turnover in 2010 was reduced by 3.6% over the previous year due, among other things, the impact of economic crisis in the postal sector, the progressive growth of electronic communications and a mature market, which have affected a decline in shipment volume of 4.7%, yes, lower than the previous year