Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos
TypeState ownership
IndustryCourier
FoundedCorreio-Mor das Cartas do Mar: (25 January 1663 (1663-01-25))
ECT: (20 March 1969 (1969-03-20))
HeadquartersBrasília, Brazil
Area served
Brazil
Key people
Fabiano da Silva Santos (President)
ProductsFirst-class, international and domestic mail, logistics
RevenueIncrease R$ 21.3 billion (2021)[1]
Increase R$ 3.7 billion (2021)[2]
Number of employees
Decrease 89,000 (2021)[3][4]
Websitecorreios.com.br

The Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation), abbreviated as ECT, also known as Correios, is a state-owned company that operates the national postal service of Brazil since the 17th century.[5]

The ECT created and manages the Brazilian postal code system known as Código de Endereçamento Postal. It also provides e-commerce platform (CorreiosNet Shopping), banking (Banco Postal) acting as proxy of Banco do Brasil,[6] Boleto bill payment collection and express mail service Sedex, with its international service network reaching more than 220 countries worldwide. It is the largest employer in Brazil with more than 109,000 own employees and outsourced, being the only company to be present in all municipalities in the country,[4] with a wide network of owned and franchised units. The company is fully owned by the Federal Government of Brazil and subordinated to the Ministry of Communications (MCom).

History

Central Correios post office in São Paulo.
An ordinary post office at Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais.

The Post Office had its origin in Brazil on Thursday, 25 January 1663. In 1931, the Federal Decree Number 20,859 of 26 December merged the Directorate General of Posts to the General Bureau of Telegraphs and creates the Department of Posts and Telegraph.[7]

The new name and status, ECT, was created Thursday, 20 March 1969, as a public company under the Ministry of Communications through the transformation of the Federal Authority which was then the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.

In the years that followed, several services were being incorporated into the portfolio. Besides the traditional services of letters, courier, postage and telegrams among the new services can be highlighted those belonging to the SEDEX family, express delivery service.

In August 2013, the company has provided 2,000 of its mail delivery staff with smartphones to provide real-time information on their deliveries. The move is the first phase of a new Mobility in the Postal Service project in which the company is looking to allow customers to track their deliveries in real time on the Internet. The first phase covered the SEDEX 10 express service in various states (a service that delivers documents and goods with a guaranteed delivery time before 10 am the next day after posting).[8]

In December 2013, the company inaugurated its second hybrid mail production center in Santa Catarina. The new facility near Florianópolis will serve the south and the states of Ceará and Bahia. It has the ability to scan and produce 2.7 million items each month, a little smaller than the Brasilia plant's 4.5 m capacity, which was opened in August of that year. At the moment, the two plants together are producing about 2.5 m mailpieces a month, including communications for the Ministry of Health and notifications for the Federal Highway Police and the Judiciary. The company is also planning to open a facility in São Paulo later this year, while next year facilities will be opened in Belém, Salvador and Belo Horizonte as the company's hybrid mail capabilities expand.[9]

In February 2014, it was reported that Correios has inked an agreement with its Italian counterpart Poste Italiane to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Brazil. Until then Brazil had two MVNOs, Portoseguro and Datora.[10] In October of that year National Presort Inc. has won a $11 mln contract to upgrade sorting technology, which will see the replacement of controlled electronics, barcode readers and software within existing sorting machinery of Correios.

In October 2019, a Decree was published including the Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT) in the Investment Partnership Program (PPI), enabling studies to be conducted and alternatives for partnership with the private initiative to be evaluated.[11]

In March 2021, the ECT was included in the National Privatization Program (PND), the inclusion of which was recommended by the Investment Partnerships Program Council (CPPI).[12] During the first studies the council opted for the total sale of the company.[13] In-depth studies were conducted by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, according to the approved text, the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) will regulate the sector, changing its name to 'National Agency of Telecommunications and Postal Services' (Anatel).[14] The proposal still has to be approved by the Federal Senate and sanctioned by the President before being evaluated by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU).[15]

In June 2022, the company's president Floriano Peixoto, spoke about the changes implemented in recent years during the radio program A Voz do Brasil. According to the president, radical actions were taken to accelerate the investigation of irregularities and strengthen governance, in addition, they sought to rationalize its resources, getting rid of unused and unserviceable assets. The alienation of 50 buildings yielded R$ 41 million and R$ 80 million from vehicles. Changes in the Collective Labor Agreement (ACT) generated annual savings of R$ 500 million (around US$97 million). The company is present in all 5,570 municipalities with 11,000 service units.[4][3]

Logo history

Before 1970, Correios used governmental insignia to identify itself. From 1970 Correios used a logo designed by architectural student Eduardo J. Rodrigues in a public competition. A new 1990 logo added the name of the company and incorporated a colour scheme. To celebrate its 350th anniversary Correios requested the agency CDA to design a new logo which takes recourse to the original design by Eduardo J. Rodrigues and has been in use since May 2014.

Sponsorship

Correios was one of the benefactor of the Jordan Grand Prix in the 1994–Formula One season.

References

  1. ↑ "DEMONSTRAÇÕES CONTÁBEIS CORREIOS". Diário Oficial da União (in Brazilian Portuguese). 18 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Correios registram lucro recorde de R$ 3,7 bilhões em 2021" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Ministério da Economia - Governo do Brasil. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (Correios)". PPI (in Brazilian Portuguese). Secretaria Especial do Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos – SPPI. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Presidente dos Correios fala sobre medidas de recuperação da empresa". Agência Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Home". Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Home". Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  7. ↑ BARROS NETO, João Pinheiro de.Administração Pública no Brasil: uma breve história dos correios. São Paulo; annablume, 2004. ISBN 8574194476
  8. ↑ "Postal Digest – Postal news from Canada, Israel, Russia, Brazil and Portugal". Post & Parcel. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "Brazil Post in talks over potential digital services partnership". Post & Parcel. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  10. ↑ "Brazilian post office plans MVNO launch". TeleGeography. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "Jair Bolsonaro assina decretos que incluem Correios e Telebras no PPI/Casa Civil" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Secretaria Especial do Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos – SPPI. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "PPI oficializa recomendação para incluir estatais no PND". Agência Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 23 March 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  13. ↑ "Decreto inclui Correios no Programa Nacional de Desestatização". Agência Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 14 April 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "Câmara aprova projeto que permite a privatização dos Correios". Câmara dos Deputados (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 August 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  15. ↑ "Desestatização do Setor Postal e da Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT)". BNDES (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 29 June 2022.
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