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Mauritius Post is today the company responsible for the postal service in Mauritius. The first informal mail delivery service to Mauritius from France under the direction of the French Crown appears to have been around the 1770s by Pierre Nicolas Lambert, the King’s Printer .
Since 21 December 1870, this became the main post office of Mauritius and in April 1877, the Central Telegraph Office also moved into the building. The Postmaster General had his residence in the building. The mail from the 33 rural post offices of the island, that were built in the 1870s and 1890s, arrived here. [2]
The government of Mauritius established the Mauritius Post and Cooperative Bank (MPCB) Ltd in August 2003, following the merger of the New Co-operative Bank Ltd with the Post Office Savings Bank. [6] On 4 January 2016, the MPCB acquired the assets and liabilities of the National Commercial Bank (Ex-Bramer Banking Corporation).
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Post codes in Mauritius consist of five digits (or a letter and four digits for an island). They were first introduced by Mauritius Post on a pilot basis, from January to March 2012, in Lallmatie, Bon Accueil and Brisée Verdière before being introduced in other localities across the island before the system went nationwide on 15 August 2014.
Seychelles first post office was opened in 1861 though letters may have been carried privately since 1824. A central post office, as a sub-office of Mauritius, was opened in Victoria in 1861 but used Mauritius stamps, [4] until 5 July 1880, when only Seychelles stamps were valid though Mauritius stamps could be exchanged for the new local stamps that were issued on 5 April 1890. [5]