Post of North Macedonia

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Post of North Macedonia[1] (Macedonian: Пошта на Северна Македонија, romanized: Pošta na Severna Makedonija, Albanian: Posta e Maqedonisë së Veriut), until 2019 Makedonska Pošta (Macedonian: Македонска пошта) is the company responsible for postal service in North Macedonia. It was founded on 1 June 1992.

Post of North Macedonia
Native name
Пошта на Северна Македонија
TypeState-owned enterprise
Founded1 June 1992
Headquarters,
Websitewww.posta.com.mk


Improvised post office after the 1963 Skopje earthquake.
Main Post Office, Skopje

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

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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

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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

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References

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  1. "Draft-decision concerning the bank selection". Post of North Macedonia. 17 November 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. ""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.
  4. "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.
  5. "UN Women and Macedonian Post present commemorative postage stamp honoring women". Telegrafi. 2025. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  6. McCarty, Denise (11 May 2020). "North Macedonia stamp withdrawn because of map mistake". Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
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