Liputan6.com, Jakarta – In today’s era of globalization, we are familiar with technological advancements. Everything can be done with one hand, including using a smartphone.

Via smartphones, we can communicate via short messages with distant relatives and friends. However, remember that before technological advances such as cell phones and internet networks, everyone used letters to send news and sent them via postal services.

World Post Day (World Post Day) or International Correspondence Day is celebrated every year on October 9. This commemoration was declared by the 1969 World Postal Congress in Tokyo as a way to commemorate the founding of the World Postal Union (UPU) in 1874.

Report of Mint, On Monday (09/10/2023), the theme for World Post Day 2023 is “Together for Trust: Collaborating for a Secure and Connected Future”.

It is also an invitation for all of us to work with the UPU to ensure that people everywhere do not need to travel to their local post office to access the digital economy.

History of World Post Day

Reported National todayThe origins of the postal service we know today date back to ancient Egypt around 2500 BC, while the oldest official postal service was discovered in 550 BC in Iran.

Various civilizations used courier services to deliver letters, messages, news, and packages across empires spanning thousands of miles, inspiring the modern idea of ​​the postman. The U.S. Postal Service dates back to Benjamin Franklin, the first postmaster in 1775.

On October 9, 1874, the World Postal Union was founded as a means of cooperation and regulation between the postal services of its member countries. Today, the World Postal Union makes it possible to freely send letters from your mailbox to anywhere. In 1969, World Post Day was inaugurated at the Universal Postal Congress in Tokyo.