Posta (company)
Posta is the postal service of the Faroe Islands and was founded on 1 April 1976 under the Home Rule of the Faroe Islands. On 16 December 2005, it became a public joint stock company under the name P/F Postverk Føroya (retroactive from 1 January 2005).
About 290 clerks work for Posta. There are 34 post offices, and 90 postal carriers supporting the country's 17,000 households and 48,000 inhabitants.
Name
The Faroese name Postverk Føroya uses the genitive form of the country's name Føroyar (Faroes), thus Føroya without the final r. The name means literally "Postal works of the Faroes", while the word for post or mail is postur.
In 2010 Postverk Føroya changed name to Posta.
Many synonyms are officially allowed for the Faroese post:
Postverkið (The Postwork)
Føroya Postverk (Faroes' Postwork)
Postur (Post)
FøroyaPostur (FaroePost)
PosturFøroya (PostFaroe)
Posturin (The Post)
PostFaroe or even FaroePost
Posta
Postal history
Skjúts
Before regular boat service was established between the islands, a special transport system was required to enable people from the different islands to exchange messages. This system was called Skjúts. It involved a Skjútsskaffari, or agent, being appointed in every village with the duty of organising a crew to transport people, letters or parcels from one village to another.
