Caribbean Postal Union

The Caribbean Postal Union (CPU) is an association established by treaty^[1] of the postal authorities of the following member countries:^[2][3] The bloc was established with the assistance of the European Union for member-states of CARIFORUM as part of the bloc of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States.^[4]

Anguilla (Anguilla Postal Service)[5] Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua Post Office) Aruba (Post Aruba)[6] Bahamas (Bahamas Postal Service)[7] Barbados (Barbados Postal Service)[8] Belize (Belize Postal Service)[9] Bermuda (Bermuda Post Office)[10] British Virgin Islands (BVI Post)[11] Canada (Canada Post)[12] Caribbean Netherlands‡ (Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen)[13][14] Bonaire Sint Eustatius Saba Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands Postal Service)[15] Cuba (Groupo Empresarial Corres de Cuba)[16] Curaçao (Cpost International) [17] Dominica (General Post Office - GPO)[18]

Dominican Republic (Instituto Postal Dominicano - INPOSDOM)[19] France (La Poste)[20] Grenada (Grenada Postal Corporation)[21] Guyana (Guyana Post Office Corporation)[22] Haiti (Post of Haiti Office/Office des Postes d'Haïti)[23] Jamaica (Jamaica Postal Corporation)[24] Montserrat (Montserrat Postal Service) Netherlands (PostNL)[25] Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and Nevis (St. Kitts & Nevis Postal Services) Saint Lucia (Saint Lucia Postal Service)[26] Sint Maarten (Postal Services St. Maarten N.V. - PSS)[27] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG Postal Corporation)[28] Suriname (Suriname Postal Corporation)[29] Trinidad and Tobago (T&T Postal Corporation - TTPOST)[30] Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI Postal and Philatelic Bureau Services)[31] United Kingdom (Royal Mail Group plc)[32] United States (United States Postal Service)[33]

^{Note ‡} − Since October 10, 2010, the Federation of the Netherlands Antilles does not exist any more as a country per outcome of referendum. Curaçao and Sint Maarten voted to become countries, (just like Aruba) and the Netherlands proper. The three islands: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the "BES islands") have now become "special municipalities" of the Netherlands.

It was founded in 1997^[2] as a restricted union of the Universal Postal Union.^[34]

In 2000 it was decided by the union's members in attendance for the CPU to be headquartered in Castries, Saint Lucia.^[35] Sited therein is the secretariat for the regional coordinator for the Universal Postal Union and the technical officer for the Caribbean Postal Union.^[36]

In 2022 the CPU formed a think tank with the goal to improve transport of mail throughout the Caribbean.^[37] Decisions by the union are undertaken by the bloc's annual meetings.

Annual meetings

• 2002–6th Conference - East Coast, Demerara, Guyana - 22–27 July 2002.
• 2003–7th Conference - Cayman Islands - 23–27 June 2003.
• 2004–8th Conference - United States Virgin Islands - June 2004.
• 2006–10th Conference - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 12–16 June 2006.
• 2010–13th Conference - East Coast, Demerara, Guyana - 6–9 September 2010.
• 2011–14th Conference - Curaçao - September 2011.
• 2013–16th Conference - Saint Kitts and Nevis - 10–14 June.
• 2014–17th Conference - Bermuda - 8–11 September 2014.
• 2015–18th Conference - Tortola, British Virgin Islands - 14–18 September 2015.
• 2016–19th Conference - Saint Lucia - 9–13 July 2022.
• 2017–20th Conference - Guadeloupe - 19–24 June 2017.
• 2018–21st Conference - Saint Lucia - September 9–13, 2018.
• 2019–22nd Conference - Havana, Cuba—26-27 June 2019.
• 2022–24th Conference - St. Lucia 18–22 July 2022.
• 2023–25th Conference - Jamaica - 11–14 September 2023.

See also

• British West Indies
• Dutch West Indies
• French West Indies
• CARIFORUM
• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
• Asian-Pacific Postal Union
• Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• United Nations Postal Administration
• Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal
• European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT)
• List of members of the Universal Postal Union