ABSTRACT
Postal communications, which includes the postal system, telephone, and telegraph networks, is a major component in the infrastructure of any state because it carries out a very important mission—upholding the constitutional rights of citizens to the free flow of information. Until relatively recently, postal communications throughout the world functioned under direct state control. However, in the 1980s restructuring took place in many of the world’s postal administrations in the form of corporatization. In so doing, however, the post did not lose its social obligations.
