koreo ng pilipinas postal service overview formed december 5 1837 1837 12 05 preceding postal service postal service office jurisdiction philippines headquarters manila philippines employees 11 000 postal service executives joel l. otarra 1 postmaster general and chief executive officer francis t. cereno 1 chairman of the board of directors parent department office of the president website www.phlpost.gov.ph the philippine postal corporation filipino korporasyong koreo ng pilipinas abbreviated as phlpost philpost prior to 2012 is a government owned and controlled corporation responsible for providing postal services in the philippines . the philippine postal corporation has an estimated 13 800 employees and runs more than 2 000 post offices nationwide . phlpost is based in the philippines primary post office the manila central post office which overlooks the pasig river . its policy making body is the board of directors composed of seven members including the postmaster general who serves simultaneously as the chief executive officer of the corporation . previously an attached agency of the department of transportation and communications dotc and the commission on information and communication technology cict the philippine postal corporation is under the direct jurisdiction of the office of the president . the philippine postal savings bank one of three government owned banks in the philippines was organized under phlpost . however it is a separate company today . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit postbank facade . the philippine postal system has a history spanning over 250 years . in 1767 the first post office in the philippines was established in the city of manila which was later organized under a new postal district of spain . 2 in 1779 the postal district encompassed manila and the entire philippine archipelago . the postal district was reestablished on december 5 1837 . a year later manila became known as a leading center of postal services within asia . spain joined the universal postal union in 1875 which was announced in the philippines two years later . on december 5 1837 the first postal service in the philippines established by a royal decree in 1767 70 years earlier was reorganized . a year later manila became known as a leading center of postal services within asia . upon its creation in 1767 the first post office was established in the city of manila serving mainly to courier government and church documents . it was later organized under a new postal district of spain encompassing manila and the entire philippine archipelago in 1779 . during the philippine revolution president emilio aguinaldo ordered the establishment of a postal service to provide postal services to filipinos . it was later organized as a bureau under the department of trade on september 5 1902 by virtue of act no. 426 which was passed by the philippine commission . the philippines eventually joined the universal postal union this time as a sovereign entity on january 1 1922 . manila central post office while the manila central post office building the center of philippine postal services and the headquarters of the then bureau of posts was completed in its present day neo classical style in 1926 it was destroyed during world war ii . after the war the central post office was rebuilt in 1946 . 2 with the overhaul of the philippine bureaucracy in 1987 the bureau of posts was renamed the postal service office pso by executive order no. 125 issued by president corazon aquino on april 13 1987 . it was also that order that placed the pso under the dotc . on april 2 1992 by republic act no. 7354 the postal service office became the present day phlpost . 2 the law also granted the philippines postal corporation the authority to reopen the philippine postal savings bank which occurred on july 21 1994 by president fidel v. ramos . see also edit commission on information and communications technology list of postal codes in the philippines postal addresses in the philippines postage stamps and postal history of the philippines references edit a b management directory . philippine postal corporation . retrieved 2016 05 13 . a b c history competitive edge . 2011 . retrieved march 6 2012 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to philippine postal corporation . official website members countries of universal postal union v t e postal administrations of asia afghanistan armenia1 azerbaijan1 bangladesh brunei darussalam mainland china regulator operator cyprus1 east timor egypt1 georgia1 hong kong india indonesia iran iraq israel japan kazakhstan1 macau myanmar malaysia nepal north korea pakistan palestine philippines russia1 saudi arabia singapore south korea sri lanka taiwan2 thailand tukmenistan turkey1 united arab emirates yemen notes 1 transcontinental country . 2 partially recognized state . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title philippine 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