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On 6 September 1638, Governor-General Per Brahe the Younger established postal services in Finland, part of the Kingdom of Sweden at the time.
The Posti headquarters in Helsinki (Postintaival) have their main auditorium named after Brahe and his portrait by David Beck.
In 1811, a central postal administration was established within the postal services of autonomous Finland.
In 1845, postal service for parcels began.
In 1856, stamps were introduced. (Finland began issuing its own national stamps in autumn 1917, before independence was declared on 6 December 1917.)
In 1858, home delivery of letters and newspapers began.
Posti was one of the first institutions to hire women as employees, doing so since the 1860s.
In 1927, the Telegraph was merged with the Finnish Post (Posti).
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In 1981, Post and Telegraph was renamed Post and Telecommunications.
In 1990, Posti-Tele became a state-owned enterprise no longer dependent on the state budget.
In 1994, Post and Telecommunications became Suomen PT Oy, with the subsidiaries Finland Post Corporation, providing postal services, and Telecom Finland Oy (later Sonera Oy), engaged in telecommunications.
In 1998, Suomen PT Group was demerged. Finland Post Corporation and Sonera Oy became state-owned enterprises.
In 2001, Finland Post became a public company (as Finland Post Corporation).
On 1 June 2007, the company's name was changed to Itella Corporation. The group's more diversified and internationalised business operations were the reason for the change of name.
In 2008, Itella acquired in Russia the logistics company NLC (National Logistic Company) and Connexions company, specialising in direct marketing services. In Poland Itella acquired BusinessPoint S.A., specialising in printing and document management.
In 2011, Finnish postal services have been transferred to a new company, Itella Posti Oy.
In 2011, Itella Information acquired OpusCapita, Itella Information acquired OpusCapita expanding services to cash flow automation.
Itella Bank started as a deposit bank in the beginning of 2012.
In 2013, Itella divested the entire share capital of Itella Bank Ltd to Finnish Savings Bank Group.
In 2013, Itella Information was renamed OpusCapita. It operates as a subgroup of Itella Group.
On 1 January 2015, Itella Oyj changed its name to Posti Group Oyj. Subsidiaries Itella Posti Oy and Itella Logistics Oy were merged and renamed to Posti Oy.
In 2015, Posti sold its Scandinavian road freight business operations to the Danish Nordic Transport Group (NTG).
Posti launched the first municipal cooperation within Posti's new home services with the South Karelia Social and Health Care District Eksote.
Posti acquired Kuljetus Kovalainen and Veine, a company specializing in temperature-regulated logistics.
Posti Group divested OpusCapita to Providence Equity in 2019.
From Wikipedia’s article on Posti Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5