Reference name: Posta

Hungarian Post Ltd.

Type:
company
Date of foundation:
1983
Address:
Budapest, Dunavirag Street 2-6
Budapest XII., Krisztina krt. 6-8
Founders:
  • Hungarian State
  • Main goals and areas of activity

    Magyar Posta Zrt. (hereinafter: Company) is a universal postal service provider under the laws governing postal activities. The primary task of Magyar Posta Zrt. is to provide the universal postal service defined by law.

    Senior management
    n.a.
    Key figures, key people
    n.a.
    Number of IT employees
    1980: 60,000 employees worked for the company. In 1990 (due to organizational changes, especially in Telecommunications and Broadcasting, the number of employees decreased significantly) 45,000. Currently 2013: 32,000 people
    IT developments/products/Projects

    In 1978, automatic machine processing of letters began (Toshiba in 1978, NEC in 1990, Siemens in 2004).

    IPH: (Introduction of the Integrated Postal Network, 2000-2002

    Package delivery

    PEP: Introduction of the Postal Electronic Marketplace 2002

    Central processing and sending of checks

    Computerized classification of letters

    Central classification of packages

    Direct Marketing Order

    Transformations

    1526. Ferdinand I commissions the Taxis family to operate the first regular mail service between Vienna and Bratislava.

    1703-1711 . Ferenc II Rákóczi had an independent Hungarian postal network in the areas under his jurisdiction.

    1722. By decree of Charles III, the postal service, mail delivery, and the right to establish post offices were declared a regalia. He had the coat of arms of the empire placed on the post office buildings, regulated postal tariffs, developed the postal route network, and subordinated the operating post offices to the main court post office in Vienna.

    May 1, 1867. The law declaring the compromise transferred the Hungarian post office to the competence of the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade. Mihály Gervay was appointed as the national postmaster general. The law stated: The post offices of Austria and Hungary were to be managed separately, but according to uniform principles. The official language of the post office was Hungarian and the use of national symbols was reintroduced. Name: Hungarian Royal Post Office

    1887. The post office and telegraph office are merged, 1888 they are nationalized and the telephone service is integrated into the post office organization.

    1891. Founding of the Postal Experimental Station, which would become the PKI

    1893. Telephone newsreader begins operations

    1908. The XII. Tc. of this year declared the complete independence of the Hungarian Post.

    1923. The first Hungarian radio transmitter is put into operation in Csepel.

    Television and ultra-shortwave radio broadcasts began in 1957.

    The spread of the crossbar technique began in 1967.

    1983. The Hungarian Post Office becomes an independent authority

    January 1 , 1990. Telecommunications and Broadcasting services are separated from Magyar Posta


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