CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.

CTT - Correios de Portugal, S.A.
Company type	Sociedade Anónima
Traded as	Euronext: CTT
Industry	Mail
Founded	1520 as Correio Público (Public Post)
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Key people	Francisco de Lacerda, Chairman & CEO
Website	www.ctt.pt

Postal Services of Portugal, plc ([ CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the national postal service of Portugal.

The acronym CTT comes from the former name of this department (Portuguese: Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones, meaning "Post, Telegraph and Telephone"), which was also the designation of postal services for the former Portuguese Colonies and still for the Macau Postal Service nowadays.

CTT has become a public limited company in 1991, and in December 2013 the shares were listed on Euronext Lisbon.^[1]

In 2007, CTT started to offer a mobile phone service in Portugal, under the brand name Phone-ix.

History

1520: King Manuel I creates the public mail service of Portugal, the Correio Público—Public Post Office.
1533: the first postal service regulation in Portugal.
1753: the first financial mails regulations in Portugal.
1821: the beginning of house-to-house mail delivering in Portugal.
1880: the fusion of the Post Office and the Telegraphs Department in one single service, the Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Lighthouses—Direcção-Geral de Correios, Telégraphos e Faróis.
1911: the department received administrative and financial autonomy from the Portuguese State and become the General Administration of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones—Administração-Geral dos Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones—adopting the CTT acronym which was kept until today, even after the several changes of official name.
1953: CTT adopts the horse rider logo. The logo represents an ancient postman rider of the CTT, announcing his arrival with a bugle. The logo was reformed three times, the last one in 2004.
1969: CTT becomes a State Company, adopting the name CTT Correios e Telecomunicações de Portugal—CTT Posts and Telecommunications of Portugal.
1992: the telecommunications service is separated from the CTT, becoming an autonomous company. At the same time, CTT become a public limited company (with all shares owned by the Portuguese government), adopting the name CTT Correios de Portugal—CTT Posts of Portugal.