service predecessor posta limited founded april 16 1998 1998 04 16 headquarters marsa malta area served malta website www.maltapost.com maltapost p.l.c. is the postal service company in malta . the public limited company took over the postal services previously carried out by posta limited and started operating on may 1 1998 . 1 contents 1 history 2 stamps 3 outlets 3.1 postal hubs 3.2 post offices 3.3 other 4 postal codes 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit maltapost p.l.c. was registered with the malta registry of companies as a public limited company on 16 april 1998 . it took over from posta limited on 1 may of that year . on 31 january 2002 maltapost was partially privatized when the government sold 35 % to transcend worldwide ltd a subsidiary company of new zealand post ltd. in september 2007 the government sold 25 % of its shareholding in maltapost to lombard bank plc which effectively became the majority shareholder in the company with 60 % shareholding . the other 40 % were sold to the public in january 2008 . 2 in 2011 maltapost carried out a series of reforms including adopting a new logo . 3 maltapost inaugurated the malta postal museum in june 2016 . 4 stamps edit main article postage stamps and postal history of malta maltapost p.l.c. 1998 present maltapost issued its first stamps on 27 may 1998 and the issue consisted of a set of 4 commemorating the international year of the ocean . less than a year after maltapost took over in early 1999 the german company bundesdruckerei began printing maltese stamps instead of the local company printex limited . maltapost s first definitive was issued between 1999 and 2003 and it showed maltese flowers . in 2004 printex began printing maltese stamps once again . since then the number of sets per year has increased and photography began to be used more often on stamps especially in 2008 2009 . many recent issues are based on paintings especially watercolours designed by cedric galea pirotta or photos or graphic designs designed by maltapost itself . many stamps are based on local topics and english is the predominant language on stamps . maltapost takes part in various stamp issuing programmes including europa and sepac . since 2003 there have been a lot of sets with high values when standard local postage is 0.26 but although these are mainly intended for collectors higher values are still used on parcels or registered letters since postage labels are not used as often in malta as in other countries . outlets edit bir ebbu a branch post office colonial pillar box in senglea . modern post box in mellie a. maltapost fiat dobl mk2 van in st. julian s. postal hubs edit there are 3 hubs in malta and 1 in gozo each locality in malta and gozo is under one of these hubs . name address locality central 1 hub qormi road marsa central 2 hub mensija road san wann south hub our lady of sorrows street ejtun gozo hub saint elizabeth street xewkija gozo post offices edit a code starting with r indicates a branch post office bpo and one with s indicates a sub post office spo . the latter are usually located in shops such as stationers . currently september 2015 maltapost operates 35 bpos including 5 in gozo and 28 spos including 3 in gozo . 5 code address locality r01 qormi road marsa r02 victory street qormi r03 dun ulju muscat street luqa r04 malta international airport luqa r05 saint catherine street urrieq r06 sciortino street ebbu r07 parish square rabat r08 main street balzan r09 valley road birkirkara r10 21 september avenue naxxar r11 constitution street mosta r12 new windmill street mellie a r13 wax alley san pawl il ba ar r14 dolmen street bu ibba r15 naxxar street san wann r16 paceville street san iljan r17 manwel dimech street sliema r18 meme scicluna square g ira r19 gwardaman a hill piet r20 ferrovija street amrun r21 castille square valletta r22 old bakery street valletta r23 antoine de paule square paola r24 fuq san pawl bormla r25 convent street abbar r26 saint lucian street ejtun r27 arenu dalli street bir ebbu a r28 visitation street g arb gozo r29 republic street victoria gozo r30 racecourse street xag ra gozo r31 north street nadur gozo r32 j. f. de chambray street g ajnsielem gozo r33 university campus msida r34 sir adrian dingli street sliema r35 g. bessiera street swieqi s01 saint nicholas square si iewi s02 parish street mqabba s04 eroj swatar square birkirkara s06 marina street marsaskala s07 victory square birgu s08 archbishop gonzi square kalkara s09 saint thomas street fgura s10 market square tarxien s12 fren abela square dingli s14 or borg olivier street mellie a s15 kananea street attard s16 mannarino street birkirkara s17 l. casolani street birkirkara s20 saint bartholomeo street g arg ur s21 feli bor street san wann s22 ensu xerri street sliema s23 testaferrata street ta xbiex s26 our lady of sorrows street san lawrenz s29 victory street birkirkara s30 ka li street san pawl il ba ar s31 orvieto street ker em gozo s32 manoel de vilhena street g ira s33 wesg a bir id deheb g axaq s35 marfa road mellie a s36 fleur de lys street santa venera s37 glormu cassar street mosta s38 dun karm caruana street g asri gozo s39 imhazen street floriana other edit there are an additional 431 authorized stamp vendors in malta and gozo . letterboxes are also found in practically every locality . postal codes edit main article postal codes in malta maltapost initially continued to use postal codes as they were in the 1990s . in 2007 they changed the postcodes of all addresses in the maltese islands . each code consist of three letters that differ by locality and four numbers for example mtp 1001 the postcode of maltapost s main complex in marsa . see also edit wikimedia commons has media related to post of malta . postage stamps and postal history of malta references edit the company . maltapost p.l.c. retrieved 7 july 2014 . maltapost privatisation latest red letter day in postal history . times of malta 21 january 2008 . retrieved 7 july 2014 . maltapost rebrands and offers new service . times of malta 26 march 2011 . retrieved 7 july 2014 . maltapost launches the malta postal museum . maltapost . 17 june 2016 . archived from the original on 21 june 2016 . search letter box and outlets . maltapost p.l.c. retrieved 18 september 2015 . external links edit official website philatelic bureau v t e postal administrations of europe land islands albania andorra armenia austria azerbaijan bosnia and herzegovina bh po ta hrvatska po ta mostar po te srpske belarus belgium bulgaria croatia cyprus czech republic denmark estonia faroe islands finland france georgia germany gibraltar greece greenland guernsey hungary iceland ireland isle of man italy jersey kosovo latvia liechtenstein lithuania luxembourg macedonia malta moldova monaco montenegro netherlands norway poland portugal romania russia san marino serbia slovakia slovenia spain sweden switzerland turkey united kingdom ukraine vatican city private 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