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Bureau of Post & Telecommunications

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The Bureau of Post and Telecommunications is part of the Ministry of the Interior.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CMN-03 Reg 03 of 11 ΰΌΆ Est 1953
Headquarters Oslola Volcanic Communications Precinct
Scale 21 offices
69,400 staff
Bureau of Post and Telecommunications
Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior
Employees 69,400
Established 1953
Headquarters Volcanic Communications Precinct, Oslola
Service Post and Telecommunications Service

The Bureau of Post & Telecommunications runs the post, the telephone network and the radio spectrum of the Commonwealth for the Ministry of the Interior. It owns the two largest communications companies in the country, Commonwealth Post and Cosma, as well as the three telephone exchange corporations of Caicos, Summers and Oslola. It is headquartered in Oslola, in the Volcanic Communications Precinct.

The Post is much the larger of the two. It delivers nearly 50 million pieces of mail a day through over 6,400 post offices, and its history goes back to the Royal Mail of Oslola, founded in 1422. Cosma was founded as a department of the Post in 1926 and was spun off into its own company after the war. Today, it has nearly 22 million customers at home and abroad.

Every radio frequency in the country is entered in a register kept by the bureau, and radio operators and telephone companies all need its licence. Since people in the Commonwealth do not use money in ordinary life, the bureau also has a small commission that changes money for remittances sent abroad by post.

On many small islands the postmaster is the only resident federal officer. Postmasters and telecommunications officers belong to the Post and Telecommunications Service, which was constituted in 1969, and most of the bureau’s engineers are trained at the Saint Gabriel Telegraph Training College in Oslola. Although it once trained telegraph operators, the college now teaches optical-electric communications. The republic codes printed on parcels began in the 1990s as the personal work of a sorting clerk at the General Post Office in Oslola.

Departments 5 departments, 21 offices, 69,400 staff

Department of Posts

15,140

Inland and overseas posts, mail transport and postal banking.

  • Office of Revenues & Customs

  • Office of International Post

  • Office of Priority Post

    21 stations

  • Office of Railway & Air Mails

    7 stations

  • Office of Postal Banking

Department of Telecommunications

8,500

Telephone, telegraph and cable networks.

  • Office of Telephone Networks

  • Office of Telegraphs

  • Office of Cables & Lines

    5 stations

  • Office of Rural Lines

    4 stations

  • National Emergency Telecommunications Committee

Department of Broadcasting & Wireless

1,360

Broadcast licences, frequencies and emergency broadcasting.

  • Office of Radio Licensing

  • Office of Frequency Management

  • Office of Emergency Broadcasting

Department of Industrial Security

1,300

Inspection and security of postal and telephone plant.

  • Postal Inspection Branch

  • Electrics Inspection Branch

Service Branches

43,100

Regional administration of posts and telephones.

  • Arctic & Volcanic Section

    3 stations

  • Verde & African Section

    6 stations

  • Atlantic Section

    11 stations

  • Antarctic Section

    2 stations

  • Kalina & Lucayan Section

    20 stations

  • International Telegraph Section

Interwork Detachments What is a detachment?
Optical Exchange Modernisation Detachment
with Ministry of Industry, Cosma
Coordinates fibre and optical-electric rollout in the larger overhaul of Cosma's transatlantic exchanges
Constituents 13 bodies
Commonwealth Post
National postal service and mail carrier of Vekllei.
Cosma
Primary telecommunications provider and network operator.
Veletia Broadcasting Service
National radio and television.
Radio Atlantic:
National radio broadcaster.
School Broadcasting Service:
Radio and television for schools.
Commonwealth Telegraph & Cable Company:
Overseas telegraphs and submarine cables.
Lucayan Telephone Exchange Corporation:
Telephone network and exchange services headquartered in Caicos.
Summers Transatlantic Exchange Corporation:
Telephone network and exchange services headquartered in Summers.
Volcanic Telephone Exchange Corporation:
Telephone network and exchange services headquartered in Oslola.
Commonwealth Radio Frequency Register:
Register and licensing of radio frequencies.
Commonwealth Broadcast Register:
Licences for radio operators and telephone companies.
Commonwealth Postal Banking Commission:
Foreign exchange for postal remittances abroad.
Saint Gabriel Telegraph Training College:
Training facility associated with Atlantic College in Oslola. Historically trained telegraph operators but now specialises in optical-electric communications.