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 Current Correos logo | |
 Main headquarters in Campo de las Naciones | |
Trade name | Correos |
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| Company type | Sociedad anónima |
| Industry | Postal services, courier |
| Predecessor | Entidad Pública Empresarial Correos y Telégrafos |
| Founded | 1716[1] |
| Headquarters | Madrid , Spain |
| Services | Letter post, parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding, third-party logistics |
| Owner | Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales |
Number of employees | 53,065 (2018)[2] |
| Website | correos.es |
Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos, S.A., trading as Correos (literally "Mails"), is a state-owned company responsible for providing postal service in Spain and, due to bilateral agreements, it has responsibility for mail services in Andorra alongside the French company La Poste.
The origins of Correos dates back to 1716. The change of dynasty in Spain ended the tradition of giving to some relevant families the duty to take care of the postal services and, on July 8, 1716, King Philip V appointed Juan Tomás de Goyeneche as Chief Superintendent and General Administrator of the Postal Offices, making the postal service responsibility of the State.
The company is 100% state owned, through the State Society for Industrial Participations (SEPI). With more than 53,000 employees and 5.4 billion pieces of mail sent each year, Correos is one of the largest postal services in the world. Based in Madrid, it has over 10,000 postal centres all over Spain.
The Correos Group is currently integrated by Correos and its subsidiaries: Correos Express, the urgent postal service of the Group; Correos Nexea, a company that offers communication and document management services to other companies, and Correos Telecom, which manages the Group's telecommunication infrastructure.
- ^ "Sociedad Estatal" (in Spanish). correos.es.
- ^ "Correos Integrated Annual Report - 2018" (PDF). p. 8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-11-04.