Sri Lanka Post

Sri Lanka Post
Company typeDepartment
IndustryPostal service
Founded1 April 1798 (226 years ago) (1798-04-01)
Headquarters,
Sri Lanka
Area served
Sri Lanka
Key people
Bandula Gunawardane (Ministry of Post)[1]
ServicesPost office, Mail delivery, banking, sourier
RevenueIncrease Rs 6.996 billion (2017)[2]
Increase Rs 477,005 (2017)[2]
OwnerGovernment of Sri Lanka
Number of employees
>80,000 (2017)[2]
ParentMinistry of Post
Websitewww.slpost.gov.lk

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.

  1. ^ "The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka" (PDF). Colombo, Presidential Secretariat. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Sri Lanka Post Annual report 2017" (PDF). www.parliament.lk. Parliament of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2 January 2023.