Correios de Cabo Verde

Correios de Cabo Verde
State owned company
Industry Economic development, Investments
Founded 1 January 1995
Headquarters Rua Cesário de Lacerda 2
7600 Praia
Santiago, Cape Verde
Owner Government of Cape Verde
Website www.correios.cv

Correios de Cabo Verde (Portuguese for Post of Cape Verde) is the company responsible for postal service in Cape Verde. The company is based in the capital city of Praia with its headquarters located in the east of the Plateau of Praia and located at 2 Rua Cesário de Lacerda.

Nearby buildings and areas

Next to the post office headquarters is the Federal Supreme Justice building. East of the post office headquarters is Miradouro do Cruzeiro where it offers panoramic views of Praia Harbor the south of Achada Grande, the city's port and Ilhéu de Santa Maria.

Its logo has a thick red circle which is thicker in the mid edges and has an x-shaped square with the letter C on the right. The postal company is on the right.

Stamps

The post also handles it stamps both on paper and online.

Postal codes

The post handles the postal codes in Cape Verde. It has four digits and the first number is that of the island, postal codes start with the number 1xxx and ends with 9xxx.

See also
List of postal codes in Cape Verde

Street names and numbers

More than 90% of Cape Verdean roads don't have names.[1] As such, most people use community post boxes. To enable delivery at home, the Open Location Code system invented by Google has officially been adopted by the Cape Verdean post, including a system on their website to officially link their home location with personal data at the post office.[2]

History

During Portuguese rule in Cape Verde which lasted up to 1975, all postal services were done by .Correios de Portugal (Portuguese Post) Its first post office was opened in Praia in 1849,[3] later another post office was opened in Mindelo on São Vicente Island.

Under law ono. 9-A/95 made on 16 February 1995, the public company of posts and telecommunications (Empresa Pública dos Correios e Telecomunicaçöes, (CTT-EP) was split into two. The predecessor was founded not long after independence from Portugal in 1975. Before on January 1, 1995, Correios de Cabo Verde was formed, the other may now had become Cabo Verde Telecom.

References

  1. ↑ Rinckes, Doug. "Delivering mail where streets have no name". Official Google Africa Blog. Google.
  2. ↑ "Morada Certa". www.correios.cv (in Portuguese). Correios Cabo Verde.
  3. ↑ "Correios De Cabo Verde". Correios.cv. Retrieved 2017-11-24.

Coordinates: 14°55′02″N 23°30′27″W / 14.9172°N 23.5075°W / 14.9172; -23.5075


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