

In the years that followed, several services were being incorporated into the portfolio. The new name and status, ECT, was created Thursday, 20 March 1969, as a public company under the Ministry of Communications through the transformation of the Federal Authority which was then the Department of Posts and Telegraphs. In 1931, the Federal Decree Number 20.859 of 26 December merged the Directorate General of Posts to the General Bureau of Telegraphs and creates the Department of Posts and Telegraph. The Post Office had its origin in Brazil on Thursday, 25 January 1663. History Īn ordinary post office at Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais.


The company is fully owned by the Federal Government of Brazil and subordinated to the Ministry of Communications (MCom). It is the largest employer in Brazil with more than 109,000 own employees and outsourced, being the only company to be present in all municipalities in the country, with a wide network of owned and franchised units. It also provides e-commerce platform ( CorreiosNet Shopping), banking ( Banco Postal) acting as proxy of Banco do Brasil, Boleto bill payment collection and express mail service Sedex, with its international service network reaching more than 220 countries worldwide.
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The company created and manages the Brazilian postal code system known as Código de Endereçamento Postal. Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos ( Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation), abbreviated as ECT, also known as Correios, is a state-owned company that operates the national postal service of Brazil since the 17th century.
