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Philpost to Issue NSCM Stamps

Posted by postgen | Posted on 06-11-2009

In line with the National Stamp Collecting Month, the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) is coming up with a special stamp issue featuring “Games Children Play” on November 9 to coincide with the 111th Anniversary celebration of the postal service. Per Presidential Decree No. 264, every November of each year was declared by then President Fidel [...]

Philpost observes simple 111th year anniversary

Posted by postgen | Posted on 05-11-2009

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) is celebrating its 111th anniversary on November 9 with a simple long day of program and activities simultaneously in all 2,100 post offices nationwide. With the theme “PHILPOST: Matatag na Kaagapay sa Lahat ng Panahon,” the celebration will kick off with a simultaneous flag raising ceremony with Philippine Amusement and [...]

Philpost Celebrates World Post Day

Posted by postgen | Posted on 26-10-2009

UPU LETTER WRITING WINNER. 3rd prize winner of the UPU letter writing contest 2009 Ms. Joyce Dayrit (3rd, right), 2nd year High School of Mauaque Resettlement High School in Pampanga, visited the Manila Central Post Office to participate in the World Post Day celebration last October 9.  With her are Mr. Miguel Rivera Jr.  (1st , left)Principal, Mauaque Resettlement High School , Ms. Jocelyn Cacho (2nd, left) of PhilPost Marketing Department and Ms. Estrella Brady, Teacher /coach.

The Philippine Postal Corporation joined the worldwide celebration of the World Post Day last 09 October 2009. In line with the annual celebration, a Universal Postal Union (UPU) Letter Writing contest will soon be launched anew by Philpost which will run from October 2009 to June 2010. The said contest will tackle AIDS awareness and [...]

The Posts as Agents for Change

Posted by postgen | Posted on 26-10-2009

To celebrate the October 9 World Post Day, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) has recently launched several activities which includes the Philatelic Exhibition (Philippine Heroes and the Arts), student tours of the postal museum and library, the mail processing centers and the iconic post office building, publications in several Philippine newspapers as well as the [...]

Philpost Delivers Calamity Checks

Posted by postgen | Posted on 26-10-2009

THE PHILIPPINE POSTAL CORPORATION has started to deliver Social Security System (SSS) special loan program checks to members affected by Tropical Storm Ondoy. The SSS Salary Loan Early Renewal Program (SLERP) will be sent via registered mail to members in the National Capital Region and Rizal Province. PhilPost letter carriers started to deliver at least [...]

PM Pecante shines in World Masters Tilt

Posted by postgen | Posted on 22-10-2009

Philpost Pride

PHILIPPINE Postal Corporation (PhilPost) Postmaster Erlina “Lily” Pecante, the reigning world champion in Women’s Powerlifting in her age bracket, bannered the Philippines to an over-all haul of 4 golds in the 2009 World Masters Powerlifting Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Pecante annexed her fifth straight world title and her sixth overall in the 90-kilogram division, [...]

Philpost to Issue Quezon City Commemorative Stamps

Posted by postgen | Posted on 13-10-2009

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The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHILPOST) will issue commemorative stamps on October 12 to coincide with the 70th foundation year anniversary of Quezon City. The said stamps, which is part of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by Philpost and the local government of Quezon City last September 23, will come out in a block-of-four which [...]

Typhoon “Ondoy” hits Philpost

Posted by postgen | Posted on 12-10-2009

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TYPHOON ONDOY FLOODED POST OFFICES. At the Post Office Lock Box Section, postal workers seen here dried up the mails ready for delivery. Logistics/Property Management Department employees headed by Manager Mar Reyes cleaning up the Warehouse Unit damaged by typhoon Ondoy. Even the Philippine Postal Corporation did not escape the devastating onslaught of typhoon “Ondoy” [...]

Extraordinary demand for Cory Stamps felt

Posted by postgen | Posted on 12-10-2009

The Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) has received unexpected high demand for Cory Aquino Stamps from the general public and stamp collectors when it was first issued last September 8 at the EDSA Our Lady Queen of Peace Shrine. To satisfy the public clamor for Cory stamps, the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) will distribute the second [...]

GMA congratulates PSMBAI

Posted by postgen | Posted on 12-10-2009

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Insurance Commissioner Eduardo T. Malinis and PhilPost top officials congratulates the Postal Services Mutual Benefit Association Inc. (PSMBAI) Management and the Board of Trustees on its 6th year Anniversary. President Arroyo has sent a congratulatory message by mail to PSMBAI Chairman Edmundo Estavillo saying that she was very pleased that the PSMBAI [...]