The UPU has informed its member countries that Haiti Post is again open for business.
Since yesterday, the Caribbean country can receive international mail from the UPU’s 190 other member countries and send it out to them, too.
The first international mail exchanges were re-established with France and the United States more than one week ago.
The resumption of full mail services is the result of a major international postal effort over the past few months to help kick-start Haitian postal services since they were interrupted by a January earthquake.
The United Nations specialized agency is coordinating international postal aid directed at Haiti and working closely with its member countries, who have generously donated financial, material and human resources to help the devastated country re-establish postal services.
A new office of exchange – a facility where all incoming and outgoing international mail is prepared for dispatch – is being built in the SONAPI Park near the Port-au-Prince airport.
The facility is expected to be ready for operations in the next few weeks. An international team of postal experts has been in Haiti for the past month to help the Post get on its feet again.