CTT (Macau)


Macau Post and Telecommunications is a department under the Government of Macao responsible for postal services and telecommunications regulation.
The acronym CTT comes from the former name of Portuguese postal administration during the colonial period of Macao.

Postal history

The Macao Post was founded on 1 March 1884 as a separate entity from China Post and a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union. Prior to the transfer of sovereignty from Portugal to China in 1999, Macanese postage stamps bore the Portuguese words REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA, but now bear the Portuguese words MACAU, CHINA.

Organization

The Postal service is headed by a Director with two sub-directors.

Services

Postal Stations are referred to as Branches with fifteen spread across Macao:
CTT post boxes are red in colour as was the case in Hong Kong before 1997. The boxes bear CTT's name in Portuguese and Chinese.