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Swiss Post
Company typePublic Law Entity
Industrypostal and telecommunications services Edit this on Wikidata
Founded1849
HeadquartersBern, Switzerland
ProductsMail
Revenue7,895 Billion CHF (2006)
Number of employees
55,000 (2006)
Websitepost.ch/en/

Swiss Post (French: La Poste suisse, Italian: La Posta Svizzera, German: Die Schweizerische Post, Romansh: La Posta Svizra) is the postal service of Switzerland. A public company owned by the Swiss Confederation, it is the country's second largest employer.[1] The group is based in Bern.[2][3]

Postal wagons at the postal sorting facility in Sion, Switzerland. Mail between regional cities is transported by rail, to be delivered postal bus, vans and cycles at a local level.

Services

See also

  • PostFinance, independent unit of Swiss Post in financial services
  • PostBus Switzerland, a bus transport service operated by Swiss Post
  • SuisseID, an electronic identity system developed by Swiss Post

Notes and references

  1. ^ "A public-sector company". Swiss Post. Retrieved 2006-06-16.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 2009." Swiss Post. 224/244. Retrieved on 7 December 2010. "Swiss Post Viktoriastrasse 21 P.O. Box 3030 Berne Switzerland."
  3. ^ "Contact." Swiss Post. Retrieved on 7 December 2010. "Viktoriastrasse 21 3030 Bern."