Post of North Macedonia
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Native name | Пошта на Северна Македонија |
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| Company type | State-owned enterprise |
| Founded | 1 June 1992 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www |
Post of North Macedonia[1] (Macedonian: Пошта на Северна Македонија, romanized: Pošta na Severna Makedonija, Albanian: Posta e Maqedonisë së Veriut) is the company responsible for postal service in North Macedonia. It was founded on 1 June 1992.
In 2021, the government of North Macedonia announced that it intends to privatize the company by either selling it or by creating a private-public partnership.[2]
Scams using the company's name have appeared on Facebook.[3][4]
Stamps
[edit]Post of North Macedonia sells commemorative stamps. On 8 March 2025, the company, in collaboration with the UN Women Office in North Macedonia, released a stamp honoring International Woman's Day and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.[5] On 8 May 2020, the company released a stamp to commemorate Croatia's Presidency of the Council of the European Union; this stamp caused controversy, including official complaints from the foreign affairs ministries of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, due to it featuring a map of the World War II-era Independent State of Croatia rather than modern Croatia. The company apologized and pulled the stamp from circulation the next day.[6]
Headquarters
[edit]The headquarters of the Post of North Macedonia is the Main Post Office in Skopje, a notable example of Brutalist architecture, which was designed by Janko Konstantinov after the 1963 Skopje earthquake.[7] Parts of the building were damaged by a fire in 2013; these areas are no longer in use as of 2023. The Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia designated the office as protected cultural heritage in November 2022.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Draft-decision concerning the bank selection". Post of North Macedonia. 17 November 2020.
- ^ Dimitrievska, Valentina (27 January 2021). "North Macedonia's state-owned loss-makers await new owners". bne IntelliNews. Skopje. Archived from the original on 5 April 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ ""Buy lost shipments for only 123 denars", the next scam with the name of the Macedonian Post". Telegrafi. 2024. Archived from the original on 5 April 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Post of North Macedonia: Warning about the misuse of the name in a Facebook scam campaign". Telegrafi. 2024. Archived from the original on 5 April 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "UN Women and Macedonian Post present commemorative postage stamp honoring women". Telegrafi. 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ McCarty, Denise (11 May 2020). "North Macedonia stamp withdrawn because of map mistake". Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ de la Torre, Lucía (19 July 2021). "Skopje's eccentric post office is testament to the city's turbulent history | Concrete Ideas". New East Digital Archive.
- ^ Bond, Peter; Aymerish, Mario (July 2023). Central Post Office, North Macedonia Technical Report (PDF). Europa Nostra (Report). pp. 2, 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2025.