JSC Ukrposhta is the national postal service of Ukraine with 100% state ownership due to its strategic importance, located in the Central Post Office in the center of Kyiv on Khreshchatyk street in the Maidan Nezalezhnosti. From 1999–2015 it was a unitary enterprise of the government of Ukraine. Ukrposhta has been a member of Universal Postal Union since 1947 and the owner of national stamp issuing enterprise "Ukraine Stamps".
History
Ukrposhta operated within the Soviet Ministry of Telecommunications (Administration of Postal Communication) as its republican branch on territory of the Ukrainian SSR and was centered in Moscow. The Ukrainian SSR did not have a separate system of telecommunications and was completely integrated within the Soviet system of telecommunications. As part of the Gorbachev reforms (perestroika and decentralization, see Union of Sovereign States), in 1991, Ukrtelecom was created in Soviet Ukraine which took over administration of all means of communication such as postal and signal.
In 1994 Ukrposhta started to operate as a separate business entity following the restructuring of Ukrtelecom, after which Ukrposhta has been providing postal service, while Ukrtelecom has been providing telephone and telegraph services.
In July 1998, Ukrposhta was reformed again on a government