Correos box, yellow post box in the streets of spain,europe


Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos, , popularly known as Correos, is the national postal service of Spain, as recognized by the Universal Postal Union. With 63,000 employees and billion pieces of mail sent each year, Correos is one of the largest postal services in the world. Based in Madrid, it has over 10,000 postal centres all over Spain. Almost 65,000 people work for Correos: 38,000 people deliver the billion deliveries which Correos handles every year; 11,800 sell a wide range of services in its offices and around 2,000 work on tasks of processing, classification, loading and unloading in their logistical centres. Correos has 12,800 vehicles for the transport and distribution of deliveries with different load capacities, from motorcycles to 24 tonne lorries, which cover more than 340,000 km every day. To put it another way, they cover the equivalent distance of going around the world 9 times in a day. Correos operates more than 10,000 postal centres: 1,987 multiservice offices (visited by more than 250,000 customer every day); 1,980 distribution units; and 8,094 rural service points. The online office , counts 750,000 users every month. In 2005 Correos invested 212 million euro (excluding financial investments) to, among other things, improve infrastructure and equipment, information, communications and automation systems.


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