Postman delivers letters in Punakha, Bhutan, circa 1995

From the archive record

Bhutan Post is the company in Bhutan that takes care of the postal system and was created on 1 October 1996. The letter posting was one of the mode of communication among the people in the Country. Bhutan has been a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) since 1969 and in 1983 they joined the Asian-Pacific Postal Union. The first post office was opened in Phuentsholing on 10 October 1962 and it kept on increasing and The latest figure for 2010 is 43 post offices (including the two General Post Offices in Phuentsholing and Thimphu) and 33 Community Mail Offices, the new name for agency port office. These days, with the help of the internet, we don't see people using much of the postal services instead we are more comfortable communicating via emails using different internet service prov