Correos de México
national postal service of Mexico
Correos de México (English: Mails of Mexico), formerly named Servicio Postal Mexicano (Sepomex; English: Mexican Postal Service, MPS), is the national postal service of Mexico. It has been active for over 100 years, and its system has roots going back to 1580.
Reorganization
In 1986, the government gave autonomy to the Postal Service. This was in response to the need to improve the service, which was considered one of the worst in the world and was facing more competition from private companies.
In order to compete with the private postal services like DHL, UPS, FedEx, Multipak, Estafeta and others the postal service created a new entity, "Mexpost," but more expensive than normal postal service but also more efficient working as a private company but still being part of the Mexican Postal Service.
Recent history
In 2008, President Felipe Calderón ordered the overhaul of Servicio Postal Mexicano and rebranded it as Correos de México. Along with a new name and new image, created by Carl Forssell, the agency was restructured helping to streamline operations, improve performance, and expand postal outlets to non-traditional locations like private businesses.
History
Pre-Hispanic precedents can be found in the organization of the Aztecs, who had several types of messengers: the painanis or "light feet" who transmitted religious messages and designs, the yucicatitlantis who carried urgent data to the metropolis, the tequihuatitlantis or messengers of war, and the tamemes who carried goods from any remote point of the Aztec Empire to Tenochtitlan (as an example, they carried fresh fish daily from Veracruz).
After the discovery and conquest, the Spanish crown considered it essential to establish communication between the New World and the Iberian Peninsula, to send and receive information between both sides of the Atlantic. To that effect, in 1514 Queen Juana I and in her name Ferdinand the Catholic, her father and regent, created the post of Correo Mayor de las Indias, through a Royal Decree.
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