Macau Post and Telecommunications,[a] most commonly known as CTT,[1] is an entity under the Government of Macao responsible for postal services and telecommunications regulation.
The acronym CTT comes from the former name of the Portuguese postal administration (Portuguese: Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones, lit. 'Post, Telegraph and Telephone') during the colonial period of Macao.
The Macao Post was founded on 1, March 1884 (separate from Correio Público—Public Post Office of Portugal), as a separate entity from China Post and a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union.[2] Prior to the handover of Macau from Portugal to China in 1999, Macau postage stamps bore the Portuguese words REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA (i.e., the 'Portuguese Republic'), but now bear the Portuguese words MACAU, CHINA.
The Postal service is headed by a Director with two sub-directors.
Postal Stations are referred to as Branches with fifteen spread across Macao:
CTT post boxes are red in colour as was the case in Hong Kong before 1997. The boxes bear CTT's name in Portuguese and Chinese.
