Cattala Post

Cattala Post Ltd is the postal service company in Cattala. Cattala Post was originally established in 1512. As of 2013, Cattala Post employs about 21,000 people, and delivers approximately a billion letters and 37 million parcels every year. Cattala Post operates three subsidiaries: Cattala Post Express, Realmpost International and the Post Office network.

The company is responsible for universal mail collection and delivery in Cattala. Letters are deposited in a pillar or wall box, taken to a post office, or collected in bulk from businesses. Deliveries are made at least once every day except Sundays and Bank Holidays at uniform charges for all domestic destinations.

Cattala Post has operated a monopoly for 501 years, and three attempts by successive governments since the 1980s to liberalise the postal industry have been resisted and then abandoned.

Cattala Post Express
Cattala Post Express is the division that offers next-day delivery throughout the nation. Operating as an additional service to the standard Cattala Post deliveries, the Express operation replaced the First Class stamp in 1999 as part of restructuring attempts to focus more on the profitable freight and package delivery services that was expected to be opened to competition. 85% of Cattala Post Express deliveries are from online orders and sales companies.

Cattala Post Express became an independent division within Cattala Post in 2002, as part of concessions with the government to prevent the introduction of competition to the postal industry. It operates from a fleet of vans based at regional Postal Centres, rather than operating locally like the main company does.

Realmpost International
Realmpost International is the international arm of Cattala Post, operating international deliveries through its partner network.

Realmpost operates a "hub and spoke" collection and delivery system based at Jennai Airport in a building called "The Hub", the largest Postal Centre in the country. It is divided into two section, one for incoming parcels and the other for international-bound parcels. The Hub is a highly automated tracking and sorting centre that can handle 40,000 parcels an hour.

Post Office
Post Office Ltd is the retail post office subsidiary of Cattala Post that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches. In recent years it has significantly expanded its operations, especially in rural areas, in an effort to return the Post Office division to profitability; it has not made a profit since 1996.