Correos de Chile

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Correos de Chile, also known as CorreosChile (ChilePost —not to be confused with the private mail and courier company ChilePost), is a Chilean state-owned and autonomous enterprise dedicated to the mailing, money transfers, and national/international courier services, and fulfilling the functions of Universal Postal Service.

Correos de Chile
Company typeState-owned enterprise
IndustryPostal services, courier
Predecessor
FoundedDecember 24, 1981; 42 years ago (1981-12-24)
Websitewww.correos.cl

It can trace its history back to the establishment of the first postal service in 1747, in the Captaincy General of Chile.[1] The current state-owned enterprise was created by the DFL N° 10, December 24 of 1981, dissolving the previous SOE Servicio de Correos y Telégrafos (lit.'Post and Telegraph Service'), separating mailing and Telex services, founding Telex-Chile (that was extinguished as a service following the rise of the internet, but still exists legally as enterprise, providing other telecommunications services). It is administratively under the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.

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  1. ^ 260 años del correo en Chile Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, by Alfonso Calderón, Correos de Chile, October 2007, access date February 15th, 2010
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