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National provider of postal services in Qatar
Qatar Post
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Logo of Qatar Post
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Headquarters of Qatar Post Office
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Formed
| 1950
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Type
| Agency of the
Government of Qatar
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Headquarters
| Doha
, Qatar
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Motto
| To Qatar, From Qatar, For Qatar.
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Postal Authority
executive
| - Faleh Al Naemi, Chairman & Managing Director
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Parent department
| Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
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Parent
Postal Authority
| Qatar Postal Services Company
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Website
| Qatar Post
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Qatar Post
(formerly
Q-Post
)
[1]
is the national provider of
postal services
in
Qatar
.
[2]
Its headquarters building, the General Post Office, has been on the
Doha Corniche
since 1988.
[2]
[3]
The company was established in 1950 as the General Postal Corporation and the country's first
post office
opened in
Doha
that same year.
[2]
At first, in compliance with treaty obligations, British stamps were in use. These were issued in Indian
rupee
denominations with QATAR over-printed in English.
[2]
The first date-stamp was used for registered letters at Doha Post Office on 17 May 1953.
[2]
Additional post offices were opened at
Dukhan
in 1956 and at
Umm Said
in 1960.
[2]
In 1980, the company began to provide
first-class mail
.
[4]
In 1988, the Central Post Office in Doha was built
[2]
, though it had been planned to open two years earlier.
[4]
Considered a good example of
brutalist architecture
and a prominent local landmark, the building's construction was contracted to British firm Comconsult.
[5]
In 2009, it was announced that Qatar had won the bid to host the 25th
Universal Postal Union Congress
(UPU) in 2012.
[6]
The event was held from September to October 2012.
[7]
Qatar Post is part of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and is exclusively the national provider of postal services in the country.
[2]
The service has seen considerable expansion. There were only three direct dispatches of overseas mail in 1963 and this had increased to well over 100 by 2018. The country has more than 130 post-boxes with daily collections. Qatar Post operates the country's largest vehicle fleet, ranging from motor bikes to large trucks.
[2]
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