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Founded by Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.1
Early history (1918–1992)
With the introduction of the Banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina was administratively divided into three zones, followed by a corresponding division of post offices, so that the offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina were subordinate to the post, telegraph and telephone offices in Sarajevo, Split, Cetinje and Zagreb.
Until the beginning of the Second World War, the postal network of Bosnia and Herzegovina consisted of 188 telegraph and telephone post offices, and in the 1930s, the establishment of a telephone network was started, and the modest beginnings of the introduction of automatic telephone exchanges were recorded in Sarajevo, Ilidža and Trebinje.
After the end of World War II and the establishment of the SFR Yugoslavia, the PTT Directorate in Bosnia and Herzegovina functioned within the framework of the Yugoslav PTT Association (JPTT).
Until 1992, it provided the services of a complete postal network of postal traffic, telephone networks, telegraph networks, and modern data monitoring networks.
During and after the Bosnian War (1992–present)
With the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in early 1992, the need for a state-owned postal company arose, and thus the present-day company BH Pošta was founded, headquartered in Sarajevo.
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the postal network of Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered enormous damage, estimated at 900 million US dollars. The greatest symbol of this was the destruction of the main post office building in Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska on May 2, 1992, when it was completely burned down.
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In 1993, BH Pošta became a member of the Universal Postal Union.
With the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, which resulted in the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the postal network of Bosnia and Herzegovina was divided into three public operators: Pošte Srpske in the territory of Republika Srpska, Croatian Post Mostar in the area formerly controlled by the Croatian Defense Council, and BH Pošta in the area controlled by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On February 16, 1997, Postbank BH–Postal Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded, headquartered in Sarajevo.
Due to the diversity of services, a decision by the government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 20, 1997 resulted in the division of PTT of Bosnia and Herzegovina into BH Telecom and BH Pošta, which have since operated independently.
In addition, in 2001, the reconstruction and adaptation of the main post office building in Sarajevo was completed, for which Ferhad Mulabegović was in charge, and the building once again became the headquarters of the BH Post Office.
From Wikipedia’s article on BH Pošta, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4