Poste Maroc, legally Barid Al-Maghrib, is the state-owned postal operator of Morocco. It was created as a separate public postal operator under Law 24-96 following the separation of postal and telecommunications activities, and was later transformed into a wholly state-owned joint-stock company in 2010.
The company is responsible for postal services in Morocco and also operates in parcels, express delivery and related logistics activities. Its financial services business was reorganized in 2010 with the creation of its banking subsidiary, Al Barid Bank.
History
Modern postal reform in Morocco accelerated in the late 1990s. The former Office national des postes et télécommunications (ONPT), which had combined postal and telecommunications functions, was restructured after the adoption of Law 24-96. That reform created Barid Al-Maghrib as the public postal operator and separated it institutionally from the telecommunications sector.[1][2]
World Bank documents from the early 2000s describe the reform as part of a broader overhaul of the postal sector, intended to define universal service obligations, introduce a clearer regulatory framework and prepare the operator for a more competitive environment.