Postal system

An 81-year-old philatelist living in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri has said he has collected over 200,000 stamps in 50 years.

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"I have every kind of stamp. I look after them neatly," Fevzi Ablak, a pensioner, told Demirören News Agency on Aug. 19.

According to the statement, the persons falsely present themselves as couriers of Post-Express or other courier services, and going from door to door, try to deliver shipments to the citizens, charging a certain amount, which some citizens reported as suspicion of attempted fraud by unnamed persons.

Scamsters send e-mails blackmailing recipients they are being recorded in their private moments

Demand for courier services has indeed soared due to the lockdown, overwhelming the companies in the sector, but the delivery delays have deeper causes and cannot be explained by seasonal factors or last month's Black Friday sales, according to sources in the industry.

On October 9, 1874, a treaty was signed in Bern to establish a Universal Postal Union. It is this day that the whole world now marks as World Mail Day.

An extraordinary congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) chaired by Turkey saved the union from "certain" dissolution, a Turkish official said on Sept. 29. 

As the most important postal organization around the globe, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) is going through one of the most challenging periods of its 145 years of history, while experiencing a very profound change down to its core.

The 11 suspicious envelopes found at a Piraeus courthouse complex on Thursday that prompted a mobilization of the police and fire brigade were to be examined Friday by state laboratories.

A preliminary examination by bomb disposal experts on Thursday showed that the envelopes did not contain explosives.

One of the envelopes reportedly contained a powdery substance.

Bomb disposal experts said on Thursday that 11 suspicious envelopes sent to the Piraeus courthouse complex did not contain explosives.

The envelopes - 10 of which were sealed - caused concern among court staff because one of them contained a "suspicious" powder.

The Civil Protection Authority said on Friday that the suspicious envelopes sent to universities around the country this week did not contain any toxic substances, only an industrial adhesive identified in the first letter.

Samples from the letters were analyzed by the General Chemical State Laboratory in Athens.