CTT (Macau)

Correios de Macau (CTT; Chinese: 澳門郵政; literally: "Macau Post"), formerly CTT Correios de Macau, is a department under the Government of Macau responsible for postal services.

The acronym CTT comes from the former name of the department in Portuguese Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones (meaning Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones), which is still the name of the Portuguese postal administration.

Postal history

Correios de Macau was founded on 1 March 1884 as a separate entity from China Post and a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union. Prior to the transfer of sovereignty from Portugal to China in 1999, postage stamps bore the words REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA ('Portuguese Republic' in Portuguese), but now bear the words MACAU, CHINA ('Macau, China' in Portuguese).

Organization

The Postal service is headed by a Director with two sub-directors. There are three Department Chief responsible for:

Services