Caribbean Postal Union

The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) is an association of the postal authorities of the following member countries:[1]

Anguilla (Anguilla Postal Service)[2] Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua Post Office) Aruba (Post Aruba)[3] Bahamas (Bahamas Postal Service)[4] Barbados (Barbados Postal Service)[5] Belize (Belize Postal Service)[6] Bermuda (Bermuda Post Office)[7] British Virgin Islands (BVI Post)[8] Canada (Canada Post)[9] Caribbean part of Netherlands^‡ (Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen)[10][11] Bonaire Sint Eustatius Saba Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands Postal Service)[12] Cuba (Groupo Empresarial Corres de Cuba)[13] Curaçao (Cpost International) [14] Dominica (General Post Office - GPO)[15]

Dominican Republic (Instituto Postal Dominicano - INPOSDOM)[16] France (La Poste)[17] Grenada (Grenada Postal Corporation)[18] Guyana (Guyana Post Office Corporation)[19] Haiti (Post of Haiti Office/Office des Postes d'Haïti)[20] Jamaica (Jamaica Postal Corporation)[21] Montserrat (Montserrat Postal Service) Netherlands (PostNL)[22] Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and Nevis (St. Kitts & Nevis Postal Services) Saint Lucia (Saint Lucia Postal Service)[23] Sint Maarten (Postal Services St. Maarten N.V. - PSS)[24] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG Postal Corporation)[25] Suriname (Suriname Postal Corporation)[26] Trinidad and Tobago (T&T Postal Corporation - TTPOST)[27] Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI Postal and Philatelic Bureau Services)[28] United Kingdom (Royal Mail Group plc)[29] United States (United States Postal Service)[30]

^{Note ‡} − Since October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles don't exist any more as a country per outcome of referendum. Curaçao and Sint Maarten have become countries just like Aruba and the Netherlands proper. The three islands Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the "BES islands") have become "special municipalities" of the Netherlands.

It was founded in 1997 as a restricted union of the Universal Postal Union.[31]

It is headquartered in Castries, Saint Lucia.

See also

• British West Indies
• Dutch West Indies
• French West Indies
• CARIFORUM
• Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• United Nations Postal Administration
• Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal

References

1. CPU members, U.P.U.
2. AI ref
3. AW ref
4. BS ref
5. "BB ref". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
6. BZ ref
7. BM ref
8. VG ref
9. CA ref
10. "AN ref". Archived from the original on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
11. AN
12. KY ref
13. CU ref
14. CW ref
15. DM ref
16. DO ref
17. FR ref
18. GD ref
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20. HT ref
21. JM ref
22. NL ref
23. LC ref
24. SX ref
25. VC ref
26. SR ref
27. TT ref
28. TC ref
29. UK ref
30. "US ref". Archived from the original on 2008-11-22. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
31. About Us: Caribbean Postal Union (CPU)

External links

• Official website
• Correct address 2011 - UPU Member Countries Addressing Structure, scribd.com