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Mauritius Post

Main postal service company in Mauritius

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Mauritius Post is today the company responsible for the postal service in Mauritius. The first informal mail delivery service to Mauritius from France under the direction of the French Crown appears to have been around the 1770s by Pierre Nicolas Lambert, the King’s Printer.

In 2023, the Post announced several international partnerships to upgrade and digitize their postal system.

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