300 new offices of Azerbaijan State Post Company to open in 2008

The Ministry of Communications & Information Technologies of Azerbaijan continues realizing the three-year programme of post services development.

Deputy communication minister Iltimas Mammadov said that for the last three years they are going to restructure around 3,000 post offices of Azerpoct (Azerbaijan State Post Company) on the principle of “universal postal services”.

“In this connection we opened around 110 new post offices in remote populated points last year and 85 ones this year. In 2008 we expect to open 300 ones more to be designed to render universal services,” Mammadov said.

At the same time country’s postal service market is fully liberal.

“Azerbaijan has issued around 20 licenses for communications services,” he said.

Azerpoct is numbering about 1,600 post offices and agencies around the country.