Install mailboxes for each apartment building

The Ministry of Information and Communications has just issued Circular 30/2017/TT-BTTTT regulating the installation of public mailboxes in urban areas, concentrated residential areas and centralized mailboxes in apartment buildings and office buildings.

The Circular clearly states that when constructing new apartment buildings and office buildings, investors are responsible for arranging locations and installing centralized mailboxes that are convenient for delivering letters, newspapers, and magazines by postal enterprises and receiving letters, newspapers, and magazines by organizations and individuals in apartment buildings and office buildings.

In apartment buildings and office buildings that have been put into use but do not have a centralized mailbox, the management board or the unit managing and operating the apartment building or office building is responsible for arranging a location and organizing for organizations and individuals in the apartment building or office building to install a centralized mailbox.

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The investor, management board or unit managing and operating the apartment building or office building shall decide on the number and location of centralized mailboxes installed in the apartment building or office building in accordance with actual usage needs, and shall carry out the management and exploitation of centralized mailboxes according to assigned functions and tasks.

Regarding the installation of public mailboxes in urban areas and concentrated residential areas, the Circular stipulates that, based on the National Technical Regulations on the quality of public postal services and public services in newspaper distribution activities, enterprises providing public postal services shall determine urban areas and concentrated residential areas that need to install public mailboxes and require investors and management units of urban areas and concentrated residential areas to arrange locations for enterprises to install public mailboxes.

Based on the request of the public postal service provider, the investor, the management unit of the urban area, and the concentrated residential area are responsible for arranging the location for installing public mailboxes. The location for installing public mailboxes must be in a visible, accessible location, convenient for the basic sending of mail by the people and the regular collection activities of the public postal service provider.

This Circular takes effect from January 1, 2018.

According to chinhphu.vn