gaborone botswana key people martin makgatlhe chairman pele moleta chief executive officer cortney sethebe human resources manager 1 services postal services website http www.botspost.co.bw botswanapost is the company responsible for postal service in botswana . it is a parastatal company 100 % owned by the government of botswana under the ministry of communications science and technology . 2 contents 1 history 2 philatelic museum 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the postal service in botswana dates back to 1875 when the london missionary society established the serve . back then pairs of runners carried mail between two points on a stretch from bulawayo in present day zimbabwe to mafikeng in present day south africa . later after the railway had been built the train replaced the runners on foot . in the late 1990s the botswana postal department acquired its own fleet of vehicles to carry mail and parcels . the postal department that the missionaries established in the late 19th century evolved into the bechuanaland protectorate postal services . at botswana s independence in 1966 it rebranded into the department of posts and telegraphs . at that time the services offered included the post office savings bank . in 1980 the botswana telecommunications corporation was spun off as an independent parastatal . two years later botswana savings bank was also spun off as an independent institution . finally the botswanapost became a separate entity in 1989 . botswana savings bank has an agreement with botswanapost to offer banking services through the nearly one hundred and twenty 120 postal outlets throughout botswana . 3 philatelic museum edit botswana post have established a small philatelic museum in their headquarters in gaborone . 4 see also edit postage stamps and postal history of botswana botswana savings bank references edit botswanapost keen to forge ahead corporate profile at ostamyy.com history of botswanapost botswana s second museum to stamp its authority by bashi letsididi sunday standard online edition 9 september 2007 . archived here . external links edit official website v t e postal administrations of africa algeria angola benin botswana burkina faso burundi cameroon cape verde chad central african republic c te d ivoire egypt eritrea ethiopia gabon gambia ghana guinea guinea bissau kenya libya madagascar malawi mali mauritania mauritius morocco mozambique namibia niger nigeria republic of congo rwanda senegal south africa swaziland tanzania togo tunisia uganda zambia zimbabwe retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title botswanapost & oldid 647120230 categories communications in botswanacompanies of botswanacompanies established in 1989postal organisationsphilately of botswana navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages setswana edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 16 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view