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| Company type | Department |
|---|---|
| Industry | Postal service |
| Founded | 1 April 1798 |
| Headquarters | , Sri Lanka |
Area served | Sri Lanka |
Key people | Bandula Gunawardane (Ministry of Post)[1] |
| Services | Post office, Mail delivery, banking, sourier |
| Revenue |  Rs 6.996 billion (2017)[2] |
| Rs 477,005 (2017)[2] | |
| Owner | Government of Sri Lanka |
Number of employees | >80,000 (2017)[2] |
| Parent | Ministry of Post |
| Website | www |
The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා තැපැල් Shri Lanka Tæpæl), is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the Ministry of Information and Mass Media. It was formerly known as the Ceylon Post and Telecommunications Department and is one of the oldest Government departments in existence today.
The head of the Sri Lanka Post is the Postmaster General, currently Ranjith Ariyaratne. Assisting in administration there is a deputy Postmaster General in every province. Sri Lanka Post employs more than 22,000 employees in various positions to staff and support the 4738 post offices across the country.
- ^ "The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Colombo, Presidential Secretariat. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "Sri Lanka Post Annual report 2017" (PDF). www.parliament.lk. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 January 2023.