Info from wikipedia.; the original site don't offer also English version.
La Poste is a postal service company in France,
operating in Metropolitan France as well as in the five French overseas
departments and the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Because
of bilateral agreements, La Poste also has the responsibility of mail services
in Monaco through La Poste Monaco and in Andorra alongside the Spanish company
Correos.
The company was created in 1991 following the
split of the French PTT, a government department responsible for mail,
telegraph and telephone services in France. The PTT, founded in 1879, were then
divided between La Poste, which became responsible for postal service, and
France Télécom (nowadays Orange) for the telecommunication services. France
Télécom was immediately privatised but La Poste has remained a public company.
However, because of EU directives requiring member states to introduce competition
in their postal service, the French government allowed private postal service
companies in 2005 and transformed La Poste into a public-owned company limited
by shares in 2010.
Photo made in May 2017 in Paris Banlieue
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